Posted on 02/10/2017 10:31:04 AM PST by blam
John Carney, Breitbart News economics and finance editor, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss the fallout from Kellogg’s attack on Breitbart News. Marlow saw it as an unfortunate but necessary victory that Kellogg’s has been obliged to shut down 39 distribution centers, with the potential loss of up to 1,100 jobs, as a result of its decision to engage in partisan politics. “It’s terrible when a company’s management decides to make political decisions that hurt its business,” Carney said. “It’s pretty clear that that’s what has happened here.”
“You’re not celebrating the loss of the people who work in these distribution centers’ jobs, but if anybody’s to blame, it’s not you. It’s not us. It’s not Breitbart. It’s the guys who decided to put their businesses on the line by challenging the values of the millions and millions of Americans who both listen to Breitbart or who voted for Donald Trump,” Carney told Marlow.
“It’s not exactly clear what they meant when they said that they don’t share our values, but why they did that, it’s not exactly clear to me. But I think you’re right: they share the globalist mentality, and they’re willing to put the people’s lives who work for them, their livelihoods, at stake in order to score some points with the leftist people they hang out at cocktail parties with,” he said.
Marlow noted that the Kellogg’s CEO claims that “this has nothing to do with the boycott; they just happen to have had a downturn that requires them to shutter 39 facilities and lay off over a thousand people – that this is a complete and utter coincidence.”
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We don’t buy anything from Kellogg’s anyway. I won’t miss them if they go away.
Food is a cyclical business.
Kellogg’s? Don’t they make corn flakes or something? Why are they into political commentary?
When are they going to learn?
When contacted by these lefty groups, their only reply should be “We make cereal”.
WIKIPEDIA substantiates the case, but KELLOGGS CORN FLAKES initially was hailed as a breakfast that reduced the need to masturbate.
Kelloggs? It’s been years since I even walked down the supermarket aisle where they sell their seriously flawed junk. Hopefully no one buys it for their kids anymore. Lots of chemicals, zero nutritional value, which is a major reason their sales are down. People are wising up about food quality. And yes, if they were producing the best stuff in the world, I’d boycott them for political reason. You betcha.
Kellogs stock was up after the announcement made yesterday.
U.S. | Wed Feb 8, 2017 | 8:17pm EST
Kellogg to switch delivery model for U.S. snacks unit to cut costs
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-kellogg-restructuring-sales-model-idUSKBN15N2R6
“Kellogg’s? Don’t they make corn flakes or something? Why are they into political commentary?”
Yes, they do, but those corn flakes all have “liberal values,” according to their CEO, so we should let the liberals support them!
I’ve never bought or eaten any of their “food” products-I don’t eat processed food-zero nutritional value and empty calories-so I wouldn’t miss Kellogg at all if it went away...
When I was at the grocery store this morning, there was a great big end-cap display of all Kellogg’s cereals, with a sign that there was currently a special — buy 4 boxes for $8 (regular 2.50 each).
I just laughed and walked on by.
The idiot CEO doesn’t know his own business — liberals have long been more likely to be switching already to granola, yogurt, fruit, etc. based upon their lifestyle choices, I’d guess. He sought to please the libs while they were already abandoning Kelloggs products in greater numbers.
So to alienate millions of conservatives probably hits his remaining economic base hard.
Anyway, stupid for consumer products companies to be attacking their own customers, just stupid.
Well, they're flakes, for God's sake! What kind of values would you expect them to have?
Yet, had business picked UP, that would definitely been a sign that the public agreed with their politics and were voting with their wallets to support Kelloggs.
LOL, yes, they are flakes.
“......this is a complete and utter coincidence.”
FOTFLMAO
“Food is a cyclical business.”
So is, “what goes around, comes around”.
It's not just Kellogs, it's General Mills. How do we deal with a monster with multiple tentacles? ONE AT A TIME
I threw out all Kellog's products 2 weeks ago.
I have started buying Malt-O-Meal cereal. It is cheaper and tastes just as good as other brands. No more Kelloggs in my house. It is just a pin prick but looks like there have been a few more pins out there. :-)
JoMa
Maybe all these employees will have a good case for Wrongful Termination, it happened because of Political Speech in which they had No Control over when their Boss decided it was Political Grandstanding over BUSINESS.
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