Can I disable the messages from the shopping cart?

When you are in the game the little F5 shopping cart icon will display annoying messages about how you need to buy this pack or that pack.  Is there a way to disable that?  It opens its messages up right over where you get game messages about what your sims are up to which are much more important to my enjoying my game.   I know where to go if I want to buy more packs EA.  Stop trying to shove them down our throats.