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[kyburg]

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LUSH Helps Victims of the Recent California Fires

Come in to any L.A. area or Scottsdale LUSH shop and purchase any item to be donated to the victims of the recent fires in Southern California, and LUSH will match your donation! So, if you purchase three pots of Dream Cream to be donated, LUSH will match that donation with an additional three pots of Dream Cream. They're going 100% matching on all products donated now through the end of November.

Our own LUSH employees will be going around to various shelters, hotels, and other places where displaced persons are being housed, and they will be dropping off products and explaining their use. Of course, many of our products are great for this purpose, but there are those that are more practical than others at the moment. Some suggestions are:

Dream Cream
Helping Hands
Shampoo bars
Solid facial cleansers
Shave creams
Soaps
Shower gels


Every L.A. area LUSH (Pasadena, CityWalk, Beverly Drive, and Santa Monica) and LUSH Scottsdale are participating, so come on in today! Feel free to link, forward, or otherwise pass on as you see fit. If you have any questions, you may contact me here, or call LUSH Santa Monica at 310.255.0030.

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Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Might hafta send you some semolians for that...

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

You don't have to send it to me, dearling - call Cricket yourself. She's delightful. And there's lots of lovely things to pick from and she's exceptional at helping folks discover them.

[dracowayfarer.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about this kind of thing this morning.

The cynical part of me thinks that, while this is really cool of them to be willing to do something to help out... 1) it's still bringing them profit and 2) it's a sneaky way to advertise and recruit future customers.

I suppose the "gift horse" adage applies here, eh?

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Dude, you've worked retail. You know how narrow the profit margins are in this business.

Then add the fact that they are spending the time to source where they are going to go - and consider the scope of that by itself. Someone in Santa Monica is going to travel nearly as far as the Mexican border or past San Bernardino to bring supplies to a shelter. For nuttin'. Because they can.

There's no advertising money being spent here, past word of mouth - so, nothing permanent they can look back on and tie to. Nothing they are going to directly benefit from. And trust me, the teaching to use some of the product is necessary - I've sent my mother stuff and had to instruct her over the phone with some of the products. Yes, they are that far off the mainstream.

All they're asking is for someone to buy something - the company loses half the profit margin right off the top (and it's tiny to begin with) and the employees are putting themselves out to make it work. Hell, I'd be doing it anyway - the timing is just about right.

I'd love to be able to do something like this. If I'm lucky, I'll be able to pool some of my employee perks into a drop somewhere.