Being the family bread-winner, it was a common practice at every first of the month for John to go food-stamping at the local Sav-A-Lot to obtain groceries for his family.
When a company notifies you of a product update that is a contrivance to send you stealth marketing spam. A cousin of "do you like our product, we love you spamming". Works on the notion of keeping a company name and product name in front of people so they can't help but think of you for future purchases. Still is annoying spam but most people are clueless so it is accepted.
Try as I might to avoid spam, I get plenty of updatespamming since the masses are clueless and blindly accept it.