I finally unsubscribed from Sephora and Starbucks emails

TY · ‎03-10-2010

I finally unsubscribed from Sephora and Starbucks emails today. I am not an online Sephora shopper and don't plan on starting now and their AI personalized emails are creepy and beginning to annoy me. I have points that I barely redeem because they never have anything I want in the Canadian stores and I am not getting up early in the morning to try and redeem those points online.

Frankly Sephora stores in Las Vegas are so much better than the Canadian stores in the greater Vancouver, B.C. area of Canada that I'd rather shop there in person but that won't probably happen for another year so no point in them clogging my email box now.

I'm also likely to stop buying lattes in person at Starbucks too so I ditched their email offers. I bought an expresso machine since all of the stores around here are closed including all of the drive-thrus and I am now making my lattes at home. I don't need those Starbucks email reminders that their stores are closed but that they are here for their customers. A 10 mile round trip by car to get a Starbucks latte is not going to happen.

My shopping habits are definitely going to change post pandemic and I'm likely not going to be visiting Starbucks very much once they re-open which could be June or even later.

Trix · ‎03-16-2010

@TY I rather think that how I shop for cosmetics will change a great deal after our experience with COVID-19. Regardless of how many wipes and applicators are available at counters and product display areas, I will be shy about touching and using in-store tester products (possibly forever), but surely for a long time after stores reopen for business.

depglass · ‎03-10-2010

Outside of perfume I've never been a tester user. I had a MAC person explain how they cleaned lipstick bullets years ago and the process just didn't sound kosher to me.

TY · ‎03-10-2010

@Trix

I agree with you that testers aren't likely to come back to any stores whether a Sephora, Ulta, or a drugstore in the future. Stores that are open around here like pharmacies took their makeup testers away.