Who else received a Resist box from Penzey’s?

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Anonymous wrote:The Penzey's owner is at odds with his family; he competes with his sister's rival spice company. May explain why he's so angry and bitter.

It seems the partners are now in charge and the siblings are retired.

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Thanks Penzys. I'll be going out of my way to give them some $$$.

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Anonymous wrote:MAGAs mad over spices now.

Come on. Penzey’s is political they have always criticized Trump. It’s part of what they do. They know exactly what they are doing.

I just need to know how to get my spices.

Exactly. I remember the email they sent regarding Martin Luther King’s “Letters from a Birmingham jail”, I was so moved. I hadn’t read that in like 35 years. I immediately read it to my daughter.


Everyone should read it.

I appreciate Penzey’s. Won’t lose my business

+1000

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Anonymous wrote:It's the way he's going about it - he's sending these to gift recipients unsolicited who may be apolitical. Would you have liked to have sent a unique foodstuff gift to someone and then the company turns out to be a Trump supporter and later sends your gift recipient a pack of that foodstuff that says "celebrate, inauguration is here?" Then the recipient wonders why you've affiliated them with this. It's the method of this marketing approach that is weird.

If they wanted to, they could match customer names to databases that show the % Dem in the voting precinct and active voting participation patterns. Plus names of voters who have given more than $200 to political candidates. It wasn't necessarily a scattershot approach.

It doesn't sound like that's what he did. At least based on the original reports, he sent it to customers and gift recipients in this area. Sending political stuff to customers is a bit weird, but you made the choice to buy from him, so if you don't like it, just throw it out. But to send political stuff to your gift recipient is weird; the recipient may wonder if you're endorsing it, when all you wanted to do was send a unique food gift.

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Anonymous wrote:Axios today said 1 million households in the DMV will be getting them. Where do you all live who are getting them? I’m in Kensington and no box for me. I’m a big fan of Penney’s and their message.

I'm in the Glenmont area, MoCo. I also buy a lot of spices from Penzeys, so am an established customer.

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It's so strange and cringeworthy. Spices and politics? No thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:I found one waiting for me when I got home this afternoon. I’m touched by the message of support for government workers. The packets will be a nice addition to Christmas stockings!

Lol 😂 when next year?!

Yup. The “use by” date is January 2027–sort of surprised it wasn’t November 2028.

Should I take your emoji to mean that it’s weird that I start filling a box in my closet with stocking stuffers for next year’s Christmas in January? I’d forget otherwise, I think.

I'm sure your grandchildren appreciate your year old additions to their stockings. Yes that's bizarre grandma.

You seem to be using “grandma” as an insult. Why is that?

I have teens and young adults, and the young adults very much appreciate (unexpired) spices and cooking tools in their stockings. Why wouldn’t they?

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I got one and I’m so annoyed. I don’t want to deal with disposing of this stupid box. It’s such an intrusion. My politics are liberal but I’ll never order from there again.

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Anonymous wrote:It's the way he's going about it - he's sending these to gift recipients unsolicited who may be apolitical. Would you have liked to have sent a unique foodstuff gift to someone and then the company turns out to be a Trump supporter and later sends your gift recipient a pack of that foodstuff that says "celebrate, inauguration is here?" Then the recipient wonders why you've affiliated them with this. It's the method of this marketing approach that is weird.

If they wanted to, they could match customer names to databases that show the % Dem in the voting precinct and active voting participation patterns. Plus names of voters who have given more than $200 to political candidates. It wasn't necessarily a scattershot approach.

It doesn't sound like that's what he did. At least based on the original reports, he sent it to customers and gift recipients in this area. Sending political stuff to customers is a bit weird, but you made the choice to buy from him, so if you don't like it, just throw it out. But to send political stuff to your gift recipient is weird; the recipient may wonder if you're endorsing it, when all you wanted to do was send a unique food gift.

I did not get one but I wonder if the address where I used to live when I ordered from Penzeys received it. I haven’t ordered from Penzey’s since I moved because I visit the store in person.

I’m liberal leaning and I like Penzey’s, but Bill’s messages go too far sometimes. I’m not going to call all conservatives evil - not sure if he’s said that, but he’s gone farther than I think is necessary. I find it hard to Embrace Love and all his other hippy quips when he is spewing hate, even if it’s hate spewed at hateful people.

Guess it’s like that other poster says, living rent free in your head. I don’t like the incoming administration, but I’m going to ignore them as much as I can because if I stew in anger and hatred, I’m just hurting myself and it is not impacting them in any way.

Save yourselves, man

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Anonymous wrote:It's so strange and cringeworthy. Spices and politics? No thanks.

Sure. I'm sure you are out there buying My Pillows and Cybertrucks.

Penzeys is delicious; I received a free box and plan to offer a few to each person who wants them on my Buy Nothing group on Facebook.

It's a great marketing idea.

And, I felt so seen as a federal employee that I crued when opening the box. Right now I feel like half the country just hates me for existing, so it was a nice message to receive and to give away to others.

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Thanks for a reminder that I need to order a box of spices.

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Anonymous wrote:It's so strange and cringeworthy. Spices and politics? No thanks.

Sure. I'm sure you are out there buying My Pillows and Cybertrucks.

Penzeys is delicious; I received a free box and plan to offer a few to each person who wants them on my Buy Nothing group on Facebook.

It's a great marketing idea.

And, I felt so seen as a federal employee that I crued when opening the box. Right now I feel like half the country just hates me for existing, so it was a nice message to receive and to give away to others.

Thank you for being a fed. I was a fed during the elder Bush administration and the Clinton administration. Then I went to grad school and private sector. I never allow people to badmouth federal employees in my presence without saying something. The govt. bailed out my private sector employer during the recession. I have a lot of gratitude for my former colleagues. Stay strong!

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for a reminder that I need to order a box of spices.

This!

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Anonymous wrote:I got an old spice jar, emptied them all into it, and slapped a Biden I did that label onto it. Left it in the break room at work. Coworkers love the sticker but hate the spice.

Super weird to be that political at work. Were you reported?

The workers at my fed office are sometimes super weird and inappropriate. Imagine some of them will simply lose their minds on Monday, poor souls.

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Anonymous wrote:I got an old spice jar, emptied them all into it, and slapped a Biden I did that label onto it. Left it in the break room at work. Coworkers love the sticker but hate the spice.

Super weird to be that political at work. Were you reported?

The workers at my fed office are sometimes super weird and inappropriate. Imagine some of them will simply lose their minds on Monday, poor souls.

Yeah might storm Capitol or something.