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2023-05-03 -Great Cultural Revolution
Bud light sales are cratering...along with other A/B beers
[Hot Air] Mainstream Republican leaders have asked conservatives to stop boycotting Bud Light because they contribute to Republican candidates and the Republican Party.

You may be shocked to learn that even diktats from the top of the Party are being ignored by the man in the street. It’s almost as if we vote for Republicans because we don’t like being dictated to and prefer candidates who are supposed to protect our individual rights.

Because conservatives tend to be individualists and we don’t generally like mixing our economic and political lives, we don’t tend to engage in boycotts. That, too, has been a tool that liberals use, and have used quite successfully to bully corporations into abject compliance with their agenda.

But when Bud Light engaged Dylan Mulvaney as a spokesmodel and its Vice President explained that the company wanted to dump its current customers for a higher class of people, a funny thing happened: conservatives agreed to leave the beer for alternatives.

Fine. Do you think we are "frat boys?" We’ll go elsewhere and you can become the Gen Z transgender beer. You wanted it, you got it.

So despite the pleadings of the Establishment, conservatives have been leaving the brand in droves, and the informal boycott has created a "reverse halo" effect that is harming other Anheuser-Busch brands as well.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-03 03:13|| || Front Page|| [11145 views ]  Top

#1 Too big to fail. Gov't bailout coming soon.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-03 03:17||   2023-05-03 03:17|| Front Page Top

#2 the informal boycott has created a "reverse halo" effect that is harming other Anheuser-Busch brands as well.

I'm gonna miss a bottle of Rolling Rock during the hot Texas summer but sacrifices have to be made.
Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-05-03 03:28||   2023-05-03 03:28|| Front Page Top

#3 AB owns Rolling Rock now? What is this world coming to. I didn't know that.

I truly hope AB suffers for a long time. I underestimated the long-term memory of beer drinkers.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-05-03 04:01||   2023-05-03 04:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Is this the Navy's Dylan Mulvaney moment? Drag performer Harpy Daniels is Navy's new 'digital ambassador' in bid to boost recruitment that's set to fall short by 8,000
Posted by Skidmark 2023-05-03 05:09||   2023-05-03 05:09|| Front Page Top

#5 In our Mid-east GA /Western SC Wally World Stores.
A 24 can case of Bud Lite is now selling for around $16.95. While a 24 can case of Coke products is selling for around $14.95. That works out to 9 cents a can difference between a soda vs. a Near-Beer.

Too bad for BUD...
If they had the huevos, they could run it as an April Fools Ad and made a killing.
Posted by NN2N1 2023-05-03 06:23||   2023-05-03 06:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Still better than Bud Light's newest campaign! Ultra-realistic AI-generated advert for fictional beer goes viral - and it's creeping people out
Posted by Skidmark 2023-05-03 07:39||   2023-05-03 07:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Maybe InBev can put Dylan in their insufferable Corona commercials as the clumsy white man Snoop Lion makes fun of.

Or in their insufferable Modelo commercials, Dylan can show he has enough heart to drink Modelo by going into a junior high girl's locker room.

It could be their Cinco de Male lineup.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-05-03 11:16||   2023-05-03 11:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Ref # 5
Wally World in Gardnerville NV is selling a 36 can case of BudLight for $23.90. $.67 cents a can. However the case lot in the cold beer display is a solid square, indicating that at least at 1:30 pm yesterday, nothing had moved.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-05-03 12:23||   2023-05-03 12:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Other A/B Beers:

- Busch
- Natural Lite
- Landshark
- Kona
- Presidente
- Shocktop

And surprising me: Hoegaarden.

10 Barrel Brewing Co is Anheuser-Busch's micro brewery. And Busch Gardens is their amusement park franchise.

#WokeIsBroke
Posted by mossomo 2023-05-03 13:06||   2023-05-03 13:06|| Front Page Top

#10 The best part of the "boycott" is our masters have ordered us not to boycott AB, that AB is a big contributor to Pubs. It's not a boycott, it's part of a movement.
Posted by Cleared Cookies Lost Nic 2023-05-03 13:22||   2023-05-03 13:22|| Front Page Top

#11 "Buy our product and the propaganda it stands for or we won't support your party."

Sounds like such a winning pitch.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-03 13:25||   2023-05-03 13:25|| Front Page Top

#12 our masters have ordered us not to boycott AB, that AB is a big contributor to Pubs

They don't call them the stupid party for nothing.
Posted by DarthVader 2023-05-03 14:13||   2023-05-03 14:13|| Front Page Top

#13 "Buy this beer so us politicians get lobby money" ain't much better.

Thanks for the extended list mossomo. Didn't realize Shock Top was still a thing. Hoegaarden is what Cringeshaw was showing off when he was making his everyman video. Of course I can't find it to post it.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-05-03 14:23||   2023-05-03 14:23|| Front Page Top

#14 So.
After getting absolutely boned by corporate, each wholesaler employee will be receiving a free case of Bud Light.

Mighty white of them.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-05-03 15:55||   2023-05-03 15:55|| Front Page Top

#15 Re #14: I thought you were joking but NO! Every step the our incompetent elites take lands on a rake to the face.
Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-05-03 16:15||   2023-05-03 16:15|| Front Page Top

#16 Ref 14 Above

From Conservative Treehouse Today:

"Across the United States, wholesalers are on the hook for inventories of Bud Light and Budweiser products that no one is buying. These products have an expiration date, thanks in part to the previously mentioned freshness campaign long ago created. The wholesalers have to swap out the close-dated products that are not being sold in retailers and restaurants. The wholesalers are then stuck with out-of-date product, and turn back to the corporate office for help.

From reporting in the Wall Street Journal, Anheuser-Busch (A/B) is telling the wholesalers to give the product free to their employees rather than dump it. By law, they cannot give it away to consumers, and they cannot cross promote the beer by “bundling” alcohol with another CPG product (ie, buy chips, get free beer).

The story is being promoted as A/B being magnanimous in giving the beer to the employees; however, in reality as the product hits its expiration or sell-by date, A/B only has that option, other than to dump it in the garbage and recycle the containers. There is so much unsold inventory, data below, they are now giving it away (lol)."

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/05/03/with-sales-crushed-anheuser-bush-tells-wholesalers-to-give-bud-light-beer-away-free-to-employees-before-expiration-date/#more-246276
Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-05-03 20:16||   2023-05-03 20:16|| Front Page Top

#17 "Here's a case of skunk. You're Welcome."
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-05-03 22:28||   2023-05-03 22:28|| Front Page Top

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