Massage Envy: You Never Knew You Needed This Papaya Peel (But You Do)
Business Wars Daily
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4.6 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Today is Wednesday, February 5, and we’re looking at Massage Envy vs. Hand & Stone Massage & Facial Spa.
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| 1:11.7 | Massage envy wants you to think of massages and facials as necessities, you know, like an oil change for your car. A new ad campaign touts the treatments |
| 1:17.2 | as something you can't do without for fear of bodily breakdown. The slogan, keep your |
| 1:22.1 | body working. The spy industry has long promoted massages and skin care treatments as luxuries. |
| 1:27.8 | Pamper yourself. |
| 1:28.9 | You deserve to feel good. |
| 1:30.5 | And, of course, you deserve to pay high prices to treat yourself like a queen or a king. |
| 1:35.6 | But many of us have a tough time parting with our hard-earned cash for something defined as a luxury. |
| 1:41.8 | So rather than confining themselves to a niche audience happy to be pampered, |
| 1:46.1 | massage envy is going after the rest of us. You know, the average person who may not know a papaya |
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