Shoeaholics Beware: You can get zapped at Zappos for 50K

A little sexist, absolutely! But genius just the same... Here’s a marketing ploy that falls somewhere between a left-handed compliment, a Henny Youngman wannabe, and a crack that a country club gent would gloat about over a gin and tonic and a smoke, “It only cost me $50,000 to stop my wife from shopping at Zappos.com!” Bah-dum-dum. Noting the company blog, it appears that “due to the tsunami of calls received in 2008 by the Zappos Customer Loyalty Team from spouses of loyal customers lamenting that the web site was causing relationship and financial strains,” the mega online shoe retailer, and now purveyer of almost everything else including a Terraillon Linear Vocal Scale to place alongside the kitchen sink, is

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