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.
I used to buy from them regularly but stopped when the owner said he didn’t want business from conservatives. I took him at his word.
I loved his products but if he was going to be that big a jerk then f××k him. Interesting thing is a relative of his runs a competing spice company.
The family also had a separate company that was run by Ruth Pennzy and has passed on to her daughter and her husband who have brought in outside financialpartners. Its called the Spice House
It turns out that his sister and her husband run The Spice House. I've talked to her to let her know why she got my business about 5 years ago when that knucklehead at Penzeys drove me away. She told me that, having been raised in the same house by the same parents, they could not be more different. She also told me that she and her husband keep their political views OUT of their business environment. They have good products, good service and I've been very pleased with them.
No their not. Which ticks me off because I stopped buying from them several years ago when he sent outban email saying he didn’t really want Republican or conservative customers
“They guy has been a nut job for years. What’s the name of the spice company alternative? There’s at least one.”
some of the best spices and best spice prices are available from east India and oriental grocery stores; mexican grocery stores too ... spices are sold in large packages for a tiny fraction of chain grocery store prices and usually are surprisingly fresh ... plus you’re supporting small, local, independent, business owners ..
I bet those two fit the Limsosine Liberal mold to a tee - They’ve got theirs, so they don’t care.
Never heard of them!!!
Remember when Bill blew off taking his daughter to Rome, and stayed in Ireland, so they could help ‘celebrate the historic victory’ of the Irish legalizing abortion?
That was another disgusting editorial in his catalogue....then Trump won, and he REALLY pulled out all the stops, making this rant look sane in comparison.
Instead of ‘publicly repenting and asking his forgiveness’, and then ‘working to right the great harm we helped inflict upon our nation’, we took him at his word that otherwise he no longer wanted our business.
The problem is, is that he’s getting so NUTTY that even his die-hard lefty customers are dropping him.
I read elsewhere that this is costing him big bucks in sales, so that’s why he’s panicking.
So, SO tired of being called names by leftist business owners, and pretty darn tired of even conservative companies that are catering to the ‘woke’ crowd.
I LOVE seeing all of this stupidity that the leftists start, backfiring on them.
I mean, seriously? The ‘party of equality’ now has black college kids DEMANDING to be segregated from Whitey! Their unintended consequences always bite them in the arse. And it’s a beautiful thing! :)
The Weekly Garden Thread this week is all about Medicinal Herbs. Come on over!
Pretty sure he’s the sole owner. I don’t think he has anyone to report to. The parents who founded the company are both deceased, though his sister owns ‘The Spice House.’
I wonder if she has any pull? Her business website is gorgeous - wouldn’t be too terrible if she bought him out and took over all of his stores. ;)
“Might have been way back in the Act 10 days.”
Penzey spent hundreds of thousands of dollars buying ads and billboards, etc. to get Governor Scott Walker recalled.
He’s a busy, busy little Communist, LOL!
I only stay subscribed so I can report on his screeds. Haven’t bought from them in years and years and promote boycotts whenever I can.
I don’t think he knows that I’m his Worst Nightmare. *SMIRK*
They had great spices. I only went to their store twice and then the political stuff started. They lost a new customer all those years ago.
A trip to their store was always an adventure. Yet another thing ruined by Socialist whackjobs. :(
Badia spices
I liked their selection. I think it was Mexican oregano I liked, hard to remember now. Those morons lost an enthusiastic customer. I was just starting to enjoy their stuff.
Shop at the spice house. Great prices and great spices without liberal contamination.
Yep. I switched to The Spice House years ago. :)
Related: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/spice-company-that-called-republicans-racist-begs-for-gift-card-purchases-after-losing-customers I’m on my phone so posting is a pain. Can someone please post as a thread? Thanks!
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