Marketing

COVID-19 assistance? No, just a dealership ad

A dealership’s mailer caused virulent blowback.
April 27, 2020 04:00 AM

Some consumers in suburban Chicago received large brown envelopes promising "COVID-19 stimulus assistance" right about the time they were expecting payments from the federal government's $2 trillion economic assistance package. "Time-sensitive mail: Open immediately," the envelope read. "Confidential information enclosed."

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