Posted on 01/28/2022 11:46:34 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Penzey's Spices, the Milwaukee-based company that held "Republicans are Racist Weekend" sale on Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend earlier this month, is now dealing with a massive loss of customers and is now all but begging for new business.
"After starting the year with All Republicans are Republicans and following up 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 40,005 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 their politics.
"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, saying "onn one hand they wish we would tone down the racism thing but on the other hand we have really good spices and they are not going to sacrifice those."
It turns out so many of them did that Penzey has resorted to desperate measures to build back his customer base.
Foaming-at-the-mouth liberalism has consequences. 😁
(Pssst…it’s the Democrats who are racist.)
Check to see if you can find the same ingredients as your current one at The Spice House. They have a whole lot. We use Back of the Yards on a lot of things.
https://www.thespicehouse.com/
My daughter buys Penzy’s for me.
Bill is just saying what his wife tells him to say.
What does that even mean?? 🤷🏻♀️
What matters is loss of sales. I suspect that’s why he’s getting jittery. I am sure a lot of people just delete his emails upon arrival while still remaining subscribed. But they no longer purchase now.
Thank you!
RE: They only lost 3%...
Give it time. Word travels.
Northwoods was in my cabinet for BBQ and summer grilling. It ran out and hasn’t been replaced.
Northwoods was in my cabinet for BBQ and summer grilling. It ran out and hasn’t been replaced.
Maybe that’s all they are admitting.
I doubt seriously if they’d be squealing like this over a net 3% loss. Thing is, the business lost was repeat customers, so they better hope the “new” 30,000 aren’t just one-time virtue signalers. If they’re even real.
This guy has a store in Delafield WI which is a conservative area. Traffic is non existent and I believe he stuck the store there as a middle finger to conservatives in Waukesha CO.
he must be rolling in dough to make a statement like that- “here i know you will never ever shop here!!”
I buy my cayenne pepper from Spice Barn, the 90 K hotness variety.
IIRC the New World was discovered as a result of the Europeans trying to find a direct route to the Indies.
Trade from the East was through Italy and the Italians were growing fat off the spice, silk and the trade of other commodities. At that time good spices were probably more valuable than gold, certainly more valuable than silver. If the western European nations could find their own route to the spices then the prices would fall.
Spain and Portugal especially wanted in on the action since they had spent fortunes finally driving the islamic Moors out of their land. As a result the Spanish Queen agreed to fund the Columbus expedition hoping any discoveries by him would make them wealthy again.
When Columbus finally made landfall he thought he had reached the Indies, one reason the locals were called Indians, but he had discovered an entire continent that was unknown to Europeans.
The treasures of that new continent weren’t spices and silk but gold, silver, gemstones, timber products, tobacco and other things.
McCormick, Shilling and Zatarain.
The Wise words of Michael Jordan echo again from when he was asked about why he didn’t go political left in his public statements...”Even Republicans buy sneakers!”
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