Posted on 01/29/2022 10:12:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Penzey’s Spices, the Milwaukee company that held “Republicans are Racist” sale on Martin Luther King Weekend, is now dealing with a massive loss of customers and is begging for new business.
“After starting the year with Republicans are Racists we’ve set a nice little Boycott Penzeys! surge in motion,” Penzey’s CEO Bill Penzey said in an email to customers Friday. “It certainly wasn’t unexpected, but if it’s within your means, you picking up a small stack of Gift Cards would help.”
Penzey admitted that the “Republicans are Racists” email cost his business 40,000 subscribers, roughly three percent of the total. As a result, Penzey’s is offering a gift card sale “with the hope this might make it a bit easier for you to share some and possibly get a few good new customers to replace the ones we’ve lost.”
While Penzey claims that news coverage of his anti-Republican rant brought in 30,000 new email subscribers, he adds that “we are still down about 10,000. Please help.” His email then takes on a desperate tone, all but begging liberals to sign up for his email list as a way of virtue-signaling.
“If you can’t even begin to fathom how to ‘compromise’ with January 6th, or the Republican vaccine lies needlessly killing 10,000 Americans every week, if you have no desire to become half-way racist, and if their intent to destroy our climate for one thousand years to come doesn’t have you asking: ‘What if we just destroyed it for five-hundred years instead?’ we would be better off with you on this Voice Of Cooking email list,” he wrote.
Two weeks ago, Penzey wrote in a shocking email that Republicans are so racist that they fantasize about killing African Americans. “Remember how Republicans, going against a mountain of evidence to the contrary, once again lied and said BLM wasn’t a peaceful movement but instead terrorists inciting violence throughout the country and then raced out to buy a crapload of guns because maybe they were finally going to get their chance to shoot a Black person?” he said in his email to customers. “What a bunch of racists.”
Amid the firestorm over his that screed, Penzey bragged to the Daily Mail that we has not worried about a potential loss of customers because so many new ones would start buying his spices.
A fat Tranny and his/her...? Wife? Partner? The one on bottom?
I stopped using these people when they were critical of Trump
Well, I just had to voice my appreciation for this courageous company.
Here is their email address: mystorevisit@penzeys.com
Email subject: thank you for enlightening me
Dear Penzeys,
Wow! I’ve been hearing that as a Republican, I am therefore racist, for over 40 years from media, academia, Democrats/Socialists and all other manner of people, but I didn’t realize it was true until you said it.
I am the very last person you want to be buying your products, so I will protect your pristine reputation by never buying a single one of your products. You deserve so much better.
Sincerely,
Gail Spurlock
We must band together to destroy woke companies.
“We must band together to destroy woke companies.”
Yes! Absolutely! That should have been a loss of a million or more customers, not just 40k.
What did that guy expect? He probably thinks WE are all rubes! I’m sure Google will hire him when he goes belly up!
Same! I used to order from Penzeys, but when he called me racist I decided to shop elsewhere. I miss a couple of the products, but not enough to make me go back.
Walked away maybe a decade ago when he started putting his messages in the catalog. Besides, Amazon has great deals on spices.
That picture makes my mama hackles go up. Keep him away from children.
Again? He did it in 2026 to Trump voters and his sales supposedly went up.
I’ve been boycotting the company for years
Tranny, right?
Badia spices are good, fresh, and much cheaper that McCormick or Spice Island.
How is Carhartt’s business these days?
Any business plan that automatically alienates over half your potential customer base is doomed to failure
Blithering lefttard behaves like blithering lettard. Expected results ensues. News at 11…
Is this including MLK, who was a Republican?
Pee be upon you, jerk
McCormick works fine for me & has for over 65 years.
The total number of subscribers isn’t important...how many of them are zombies that made only one or two purchases years ago, or follow “out of morbid curiosity” and have bought nothing?
What matters is the subset that actively buys product...and who knows, he may have lost a bunch of them, either because they’re offended by his statements or (equally as possible) they’ve concluded his priority isn’t where it should be, on spices.
Maybe it’s not there anymore but one of the most marvelous aromas in the world was walking past the McCormick warehouse on Baltimore’s inner harbor.
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