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[Sooner]

I go to my site to buy tea and there is health information featured, all sorts of "soothing" suggestions, space and copy telling me how they are saving the planet.  Recipes.

It's TEA!  I want to buy some tea.  Stores are supposed to sell things.  Not spend my consumer dollars on wellness and lifestyle and charity stuff.  That's supposed to be for ME to decide!

Is anyone else tired of the constant barrage of this from online retailers?  They not only clutter up their site and spend my money, they send me lots of stupid e-mails.  E-mails that have nothing to do with giving me a sale or a discount coupon or new products!  

[CrazyDaisy]

Many Brick and Mortar stores do the same thing as it pertains the various products.  Recipe cards in the aisle, tips on wearing a scarf, etc. It is how businesses have always worked.  They provide some value added for the purpose of additional or repeat sales.

[bikerbabe]

I like wellness, lifestyle, environmental and charity stuff and I like doing business with companies that think about those things. It often gives me good ideas or things I didn’t know about. I take in what interests me and discard the rest.

[Sooner]

@CrazyDaisy   I don't think it is anywhere near what it is today.  Plus, in stores you have the option to walk buy, take the card, or ignore it.  You can donate at the register or not in many instances.

Now it is pushed to you through their sites and e-mails.  Yes, you can unsubscribe, then you might miss a discount.  

[ValuSkr]

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@CrazyDaisy wrote:

Many Brick and Mortar stores do the same thing as it pertains the various products.  Recipe cards in the aisle, tips on wearing a scarf, etc. It is how businesses have always worked.

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True, especially grocery stores.  For a change, go to Aldi's.  They have no in-store advertising, or sales pitches over the PA, or TV monitors looping the latest hints from Joe the Butcher.  The place is quiet - like a library.

[Spurt]

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@Sooner wrote:

I go to my site to buy tea and there is health information featured, all sorts of "soothing" suggestions, space and copy telling me how they are saving the planet.  Recipes.

It's TEA!  I want to buy some tea.  Stores are supposed to sell things.  Not spend my consumer dollars on wellness and lifestyle and charity stuff.  That's supposed to be for ME to decide!

Is anyone else tired of the constant barrage of this from online retailers?  They not only clutter up their site and spend my money, they send me lots of stupid e-mails.  E-mails that have nothing to do with giving me a sale or a discount coupon or new products!  

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@Sooner 

I understand totally where you're coming from.  By what I've read and heard from watching the business channels, this is what the millienials want, health info on food products and ways to "save the planet".

However, what they don't understand is the company hires someone to do this (unnecessary) research, and write what's on the website and emails and this expense gets passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices!!!!  ....But I guess it provides the millennials with that "feel good feeling" about their purchases.  But I agree with you, we don't need this extraneous information nor additional costs and higher prices .  Id find another place to buy tea.....

[deepwaterdotter]

SPURT's advice is sound, find another place to spend your tea dollars.  The consumer makes their feelings known through their patronage of a business.

[goldensrbest]

I find it so difficult to find really good fruit flavored teas, i want a strong fruit flavor.

[sidsmom]

If I read this correctly, we’re angry about the way a business 

donates their profits? And shares that info with their customers?

[suzyQ3]

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@sidsmom wrote:

If I read this correctly, we’re angry about the way a business 

donates their profits? And shares that info with their customers?

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@sidsmom, I don't know whether that is exactly what the OP meant. I took her words as being more general. For example, I am totally turned off by the "inspirational" words on Philosophy products. I see it as slimely ( a word?) manipulative.

But about the donatIons: I have to be honest that if a company donates to a group to which I seriously want no connection, I may not be angry, but I sure as heck won't patronize that company.

This is the reason that I'm always reticent about criticizing others when they "boycott" a company or group with which I feel an alignment.