Steve Sando , founder of Rancho Gordo, an heirloom bean company, shows off the "Good Mother Stallard" bean Wednesday April 13, 2011, in Napa, Calif.
I don't buy his beans, but if I did I would stop buying them after this announcement.
Posted on 03/09/2018 1:18:23 PM PST by Lonely Bull
Steve Sando, the owner of Rancho Gordo New World Specialty Food, spends more than half a million dollars each year shipping his heirloom beans to destinations worldwide.
Until Monday, FedEx shipped the lion’s share.
But not anymore.
Sando, who said he was fed up with gun violence, stopped using FedEx as his main shipper.
Sando said he could no longer work with FedEx because it provides discounts to National Rifle Association members.
“The NRA is a really powerful machine that doesn’t allow dialog about gun violence,” said Sando.
(Excerpt) Read more at napavalleyregister.com ...
Curious as to how much of an impact to FedEx’s bottom line this dude’s “heirloom beans” made...
My guess is not much to give a care.
this statement is nothing more than a marketing stunt by this guy.
If his company is only spending 500,000 $ a year on shipping, and the company is global, he has a very tiny (comparatively speaking) customer base.
heirloom beans....who knew! the beans make “old farts”....lol
Someone is full of Beans
My guess is not much to give a care.
I don't think so either, or otherwise I would've posted this thread in News/Activism. I'm not sure if other smaller companies would join in a similar effort, but I'm more determined than ever to look at a company's political decisions before I give them my money.
I don't buy his beans, but if I did I would stop buying them after this announcement.
On the flip side, I wonder how many customers they have gained. Most likely more than enough to offset this loss.
I don’t buy that beaner’s beans, but if I did buy that beaner’s beans I’d stop.
So here we see another pupil of the “Dick’s Sporting Goods Marketing Exploitation”.
Just like Dick’s, this guy seek gobs of free advertising for his self perceived virtue signaling. The result is identical for me, Heirloom Beans and Dick’s won’t get a dime from me.
Actually, never heard of Heirloom Beans, and Dick’s sucks, unless you want to pay $80 for a t-shirt or something.
Bye, Steve.
I despise virtue-signalers
What the hell is an heirloom bean? Is it a bean that is passed on down through generations?
Did the owner say which mass murdering NRA member upsets him the most?
Cuz there haven’t been any.
I would like him to explain, in detail, exactly how he thinks the NRA became the "powerful machine" he describes.
These are always "feel" good things liberals do to assuage their own guilt, without realizing they are not making a difference at all to the problem itself.
It's like an air guitar for loom beans.
Something tells me that bean-dip needs fedx more than they need him.
“Is it a bean that is passed on down through generations?”
More or less.
It’s a bean that has not underwent hybridization and still maintains its original traits.
Well I’m fed up with the high price of specialty heirloom beans and refuse to pay the price. None of this company’s product will ever cross my table.
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