Posted on 04/09/2023 8:45:41 PM PDT by DoodleBob
England is a Muslim country. Paving the way for no drinking in public on the way to no drinking at all.
Riding high in 21, shot themselves down in April.
That’s funny. You mean like how “We” crushed the NFL with boycotts?
Hershey’s is still selling chocolate
The NFL still exists
Gillette is still on store shelves
Frito-lay is still around
Dicks sporting goods are still around
Netflix is still around
Exactly which companies have gone broke from going woke?
It's a fair question, to ask what person in marketing didn't examine the possible blowback on this strategy. It's like when Balenciaga ran that creepy child porn-like advertising campaign. And for what it's worth, most of the folks I know under 35 aren't creeped out by gays but the trans stuff IS very much at WTF kind of thing.
What people on this side of the fence need to ask, is what is the compelling alternative to Divine circa 2023 as a spokesman? What campaign would WE run to sell more bad beer, to folks under 35?
We should have destroyed the Dems in the midterms, and we barely took the House. Why? Because there's no leadership. There is no offense outside of Trump and DeSantis. Nobody else is driving a pro-growth, pro-liberty, "here is what WE stand for" message. It's not enough to say "we aren't Bidet or Merrick Garland or Pelosi, and we're not weird."
Bud Light is the battle for the heart of America in a microcosm. And based on the responses so far, clearly people don't understand the war being fought. We need messaging that invigorates, leads, and captivates people, for beer or freedom...not just "boycott them because he's icky."
Until then, it's the left that is driving the truck, and keeping us on defense. Stand FOR something.
I wondered how my wife’s family would react. They are heavy beer drinkers who normally drink several cases of A-B products at family gatherings. At our Easter celebration yesterday, the outrage at what A-B did was ferocious, and not one of their products was consumed.
Budweiser ... The Queen of Beers.
When you say Budweiser.....you’ve said it, doll!
How far they have fallen.
Bring back the Clydesdales...and, American ownership.
You have no right...
You have no right to make sense on this forum!!!!
Be gone with you...LOL
Crap in the nfl changed.....
We did that
Check the sales....
These companies are smaller than they were...
And the new companies are booming
Boycotts work, but only if they remain in effect
We have leaders out there...
Here in michiganstan they are being arrested.
Funny, it was the topic at my Easter gathering as well, many switched to Coors Banquet beer.
At our Easter family gathering, we had no AB products.
Only Shiners.
Where I went to school a guy in a pickup truck would empty the aluminum cans from the dumpsters every Sunday behind Fraternity row and he told me he paid for his F150 with the proceeds. Maybe he would refuse to pick them up now because of the transgender on them and leave it to the new guy with the purple hair driving an old Mary Kay cadillac.
Stella Artois beer is good.
I'm working on preserving my precious bodily fluids.
AB lost 3 billion in market cap today so far.
Indeed. there were NFL threads all season right here on FR.
I will say this, from 1987 or so when I sipped a Bud Light...I found that it lacked a true beer taste (having had a few German beers in my life). That was the first and last taste I had of it.
How it proceeded up the chain? I think the management wrangled a lot of sports arenas to only carry it. There must have been a lot of free gifts/bribes along the way.
The trouble I now see...most everyone readily admits there are better beers out there, especially the craft type. If you dislodge the sports arena crowd and they flip to various other types...I could see 30-percent to 50-percent of the core audience gone in just six months.
My general prediction...it gets rebranded....probably with some Hispanic word/phrase, and the VP for marketing is given $3-million to just quietly walk away.
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