So...I don't know, My Pillow has been in the news lately for some reason.
All of our bed pillows are My Pillow. For a while before we discovered My Pillow it was hard, not impossible, but hard to find USA made pillows. The shell was always the part you'd get tripped up on. Shell made in China, assembled in Missouri or wherever else we would see on the tags.
Then My Pillow became a thing. And they are damn nice pillows. Kind of a thing with them right now. Good lesson, don't mix politics with your business.
Our favorite local pizza shop, they vote Republican, but you can't broadcast that, you can't risk alienating customers because it can. Although now, it's like, conservatives want to buy from conservative minded businesses and liberals want to buy from liberal minded businesses...and it's like, really, does it really have to go that far? Just buy what you like and if they make a good product, who cares what their politics are?
If I owned a shop or store, the very last thing I would do would be to put a sign, sticker or likeness of ANY political party, person or entity on display in my shop or on my vehicle fleet- regardless of what my affiliation was. By doing so, you're certain to alienate anywhere from 46 - 54% of potential clientele. Having said that, that pillow guy is just creepy.
I don't shop based on Republican/Democrat. I don't even think about politics when I shop at local small businesses unless they bring it up. Most are smart enough to stay out of it - why jeopardize your investment?
But I'm definitely not buying from a guy who uses his position as a C-list business celebrity to perpetuate untruths.
"In my line of work, you gotta be able to sing, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" or "Dixie", with equal enthusiasm - depending on the clientele." - The Outlaw Josie Wales (pull-barge operator)
"In my line of work, you gotta be able to sing, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" or "Dixie", with equal enthusiasm - depending on the clientele." - The Outlaw Josie Wales (pull-barge operator)
“You boys gonna pull those irons or whistle “Dixie?”...
I don't make my purchase decisions or shopping decisions based on politics...unless that business decides to make politics part of their identity. I don't care if they put a sign in their window supporting a candidate I don't like.
But the My Pillow CEO has chosen to go beyond that and go full on psycho. Trump has chosen to do that. The Papa John's CEO decided to do that. If they want to put themselves out there and be an ass about it, well there are other places to spend my money.
There is a local sandwich shop that offered a discount for saying "send them back where they came from" back when that racist statement was a thing. Yeah, that is beyond putting a sign in the window. Not spending my money there.
There's a little bakery I use to go into a couple mornings a week to get a muffin/biscuit and coffee. About a year before the recent election, they put in a GIGANTIC wide screen with FOX News running all day. It became a gathering spot for folks of that political ilk (bunch o' bubbas) - which is all cool - until they started challenging you over your decision to wear a a Covid mask - going as far as to make snide and catty comments. I now call the place "The Right-Wing Muffin" and just never go there anymore.
Let me preface this by saying I'm a staunch independent when it comes to voting, I look at the candidate, their platform and decide how that might effect me and general society. I've voted independent, republican and democratic candidates in the past and will continue to do so. I feel zero allegiance to any particular party.
However, from now on, if I'm aware of a business's (large or small) support for Donald Trump they will never see another nickel of my money. Home Depot. Nope. Goya Beans. Nope. My Pillow. Nope. My, previously speaking, barber. Nope. Hanging a Trump flag outside the home with the added line "No More Bull----" ended that for me. Those enterprises all brought politics into a spending decision that I have control of. It may benefit them or it may hurt them but I'm done with them.
"Is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?"
Yeah, these days more and more people like to wear their politics on their sleeve. Somebody might get a bump by appealing to one group over the other, in the long run it is bad business to alienate a whole bunch of customers and potential customers.
Pillow guy sleeps in the bed he makes for himself, literally...and figuratively in this case.
I'm not really cool a group like Sleeping Giants going around to get stores to drop products either. Wasn't cool with Bill O'Reily wanting to boycott Pepsi over something Ludacris said.
That's their right I suppose - just everyone's got to be an activist now. I'm kind tired of all this activism.
I encourage people to be active and speak their mind on issues that are important to them, whether it's Lebron, George Clooney, Pillow Face, or the local cakery.
But they can't complain when it blows back on their business if they say something egregious.
Activists used to bemoan Michael Jordan's lack of participation in social causes, to which he responded, "Republicans buy sneakers, too." What's more important, your brand or your opinion?
I just read the other day the My Pillow guy was a big crackhead. Explains a lot.
Does this pillow work well for screaming into?
It’s not really on topic, but still....ya just can’t make this stuff up
”Prehistoric Teeth Hint At Stone Age Sex With Neanderthals” - CNN
goes on to talk about interbreeding/includes depiction of teen wolf-type person etc - article says where teeth were found & how they concluded half human, half caveman etc
would this be considered bestial (no pun intended) - yes imo
however “Me Tarzan You Jane” - no imo
Stone Age pillow talk>back to topic😮😶
