Owner of Penzey's Spices goes on insane rant against Republicans (my title - posted on Facebook)

[DCPatriot]

No more Penzey's in this house either.

Can't see "Bill" dying of natural causes if he keeps up with this crap!   

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Don't know it but now do not want to

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Updated Woke Alert Business Buzz

Penzey’s Spices learns the hard way… Loses 40,000 customers…
Spice Company Who Called Republicans Racist Loses Massive Number of Customers

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.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/penzeys-spices-learns-their-lesson-loses-40000-customers/
 

[Smokin Joe]

Get "woke", go broke!

[catfish1957]

Burger King also decides that political commentary is a good way to sell product, bashing the FCC's recent net neutrality ruling.  Uh, no. I no more need their sandwiches than I do Penzey's spices or Scott's vests.

Edit to add: I see @Suppressed has posted a thread on Burger King.

BK has had some of the creepiest ads on TV in the past 20 years.  I don't know who does their marketing, but their stupidity has had to cost them countless millions over the years

[Smokin Joe]

BK has had some of the creepiest ads on TV in the past 20 years.  I don't know who does their marketing, but their stupidity has had to cost them countless millions over the years

We don't have a local BK, and the only one I ever stopped at served the worst burger I have had from a fast food place.

I don't stop there.

[EdinVA]

Spice company that called Republicans racist begs for gift card purchases after losing customers
The spice company has reportedly lost more than 40,000 subscribers after the CEO's politically charged email

A Wisconsin-based spice company that made headlines earlier this month when its CEO sent an email to customers accusing Republicans of racism is now asking people to buy gift cards after hemorrhaging tens of thousands of customers.


https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/spice-company-that-called-republicans-racist-begs-for-gift-card-purchases-after-losing-customers

[Killer Clouds]

Good. I hope they go out of business.

[Smokin Joe]

Well, they shat in their mess kit.

Now, it's chow time.

What is the best seasoning for crow?

[catfish1957]

I hope your company dies, you woke bastards......

[dancer]

They never learn, do they.  Get woke, go broke.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

They never learn, do they.  Get woke, go broke.

Anyone heard from the Dixie chicks lately?

[Kamaji]

Anyone heard from the Dixie chicks lately?

The who?

[IsailedawayfromFR]

[mystery-ak]

January 31, 2022
Spice company learns the hard way about the wisdom of going 'woke'
By Monica Showalter

Well, it turns out things haven't gone so good for wokester company, Penzey's Spices, which ran a 'Republicans are racist' campaign for .. I am not sure what purpose, it wasn't business.

According to Fox News:

    A Wisconsin-based spice company that made headlines earlier this month when its CEO sent an email to customers accusing Republicans of racism is now asking people to buy gift cards after hemorrhaging tens of thousands of customers.

    Earlier this month, Penzeys Spices CEO Bill Penzey renamed the extended Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend to be "Republicans are racist weekend" in a newsletter to customers. In the letter, he said his aim was to anger Republicans in honor of the late civil rights icon.
     
    "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? What a bunch of racists," the email said.

more
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/01/spice_company_learns_the_hard_way_about_the_wisdom_of_going_woke.html

[Right_in_Virginia]

[Kamaji]

I gotta save that gif someplace permanent.

[Wingnut]

The who?

[Kamaji]

Yeah, I know; I walked into that one!  Them I remember.

[mystery-ak]

Penzey’s Spice Company Called All Republicans Racist, Then Lost 40,000 Customers in Two Weeks

https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/31/penzeys-spice-company-called-all-republicans-racist-then-lost-40000-customers-in-two-weeks/

[EdinVA]

So it appears that our "boycotts" have an impact.... trouble is getting to the point how to keep track of all the companies....

[DefiantMassRINO]

Why am I always the last person to find out that I'm racist?

[Cyber Liberty]

So it appears that our "boycotts" have an impact.... trouble is getting to the point how to keep track of all the companies....

My guess is it pissed off a lot of liberals,  too.  People with conservative relatives they love.

[sneakypete]

Updated Woke Alert Business Buzz

Penzey’s Spices learns the hard way… Loses 40,000 customers…
Spice Company Who Called Republicans Racist Loses Massive Number of Customers.

“If you can’t even begin to fathom how to ‘compromise’ with January 6th, orif 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?’

@IsailedawayfromFR

This guy is certifiably batshit crazy.

He obviously inherited the business,and the more he speaks or tweets,the closer he is going to come to losing it. Either the board will kick his ass off,or the doors will close.

[sneakypete]

BK has had some of the creepiest ads on TV in the past 20 years.  I don't know who does their marketing, but their stupidity has had to cost them countless millions over the years

@catfish1957

I am glad to see that I am not the only one creeped out by that huge Burger King dude/dudette . Gives off a more than faint whiff of child molester to me,despite the fact I can't put my finger on a single thing to that would prove it.

Doesn't matter. If he creeps me out,he creeps me out.