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.
I have several on my list:
Penzey’s
Bed, Bath and Beyond
Kohls
Walgreens
Starbucks
Apple
Fakebook
Twatter
Instagram
... etc.
I’m sure the true number is higher than 10,000.
Ugh! Have to drive through there today on my way to Sun Prairie. I’ll probably be pulled over for not masking while driving. Alone. In my car.
*Rolleyes*
They extended the mask mandate for Dane County (I live in Iowa County) through MARCH, now. Cases (bogus or not) have dropped off significantly, though they won’t let go of their power over the people!
That virus is so smart! It knows to stop at County Lines! *SNORT*
Never heard of Penzey’s until now. I buy my spices at the grocery.
You go woke you go broke enjoy.
McCormick’s spices are good and I have quite a few of them in the cupboard. For spices I use a lot of I buy direct in quantity and even better quality. A lot cheaper too.
Never heard of Penzey’s Spices.
I suspect so too.
Too bad, so sad. :)
” “It certainly wasn’t unexpected, but if it’s within your means, you picking up a small stack of Gift Cards would help.”
Usually the cry of desperation when biz pulls this.
There were three different restaurants where I used to live that went door to door offering coupon books for discounted meals, two for ones, etc.
Within 3 months of them doing that all had closed their doors for good.
It is obvious you are not Penzky material.
There is a homegrown salvage grocery with a deli and butcher counter in my area. They sell spices in bulk containers, all kinds of weird stuff for a couple of dollars each.
That's something I've never heard of.
Over the decades a couple of stand alone butcher shops have been tried in my little town but they didn't make it.
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