Target Defeats 800-Thread Count Bed Sheet Deception Class Action

Reasonable consumers wouldn’t be misled by Target Corp. representing its 100% cotton Threshold Signature sheets were 800-thread count because such a high thread count is impossible for 100% cotton sheets, a federal judge said.

Judge Marilyn L. Huff of the US District Court for the Southern District of California on Monday dismissed a consumer’s class action complaint alleging Target mislabeled the bed sheets.

The consumer alleged that the sheets actually had a thread count of 288 rather than 800 and that it is physically impossible to make cotton threads fine enough to have 600 or more threads in a square ...