Shocking, isn't it.
Posted on 12/17/2017 9:10:56 PM PST by Olog-hai
Another food behemoth is blaming slumping sales on protests at National Football League games.
Sanderson Farms, a poultry outfit headquartered in Laurel, Mississippi, is pointing to the protests, in which some NFL players kneel during the pre-game national anthem, as a possible reason for a recent decline, reports Fortune.
“The only thing puzzling me right now is wings,” chief executive officer Joe F. Sanderson Jr. said in an earnings call on Thursday. “It’s just been reported to us that some of our customers think that their traffic is down because of the demonstrations by some of the NFL players.”
Chicken wing sales are down 14 percent compared to this time last year, according to Fortune. …
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It has not affected the price of wings in the grocery store.
Shocking, isn't it.
What I want to know is when will the players get hit on THEIR pocketbooks?
Whining, eh? No bias there.
Just because those idiots insulted their country to protest something that isn’t happening and cost the wing producers actual money doesn’t mean that they have reason to object. Pack of racists.
As soon as their unions are busted.
two places i frequent saw a noticeable drop off after NASCAR was over and only football was on
I honestly support what they are doing. Showing people who they really are.
Slow clap and ear to ear grin. ESAFD dirtbags.
Did that same drop off happen last year or the year before?
In the late 1990’s, bars regularly ran 25 cent wing nights, some even went as low as ten cents. Wings were throwaway food sold mainly for making stock in restaurants.
Now they rarely cost less than two bucks a pound in the grocery stores, and usually cost at least as much as boneless breast meat. I don’t fault them for take NG advantage of a market demand, but my heart does not weep for the chicken producers, they had a good run and hopefully made good money.
Good. Nothing worse than chickens waddling around with no wings. And those dang Asians that eat chicken feet.
Tell it to the NFL!!!
Rise in popularity of chicken wings in the US has brought down the cost of chicken breasts substantially.
When you want chicken wings to sell, there’s other tasty parts of the bird as well that you gotta sell somehow. Best way: lower prices.
In my mind, the issue is that the kneelers epitomize what's wrong with so many NFL players. It's not about them, it's about the consumers (fans). For the game, they have an obligation to honor what the National Anthem means to fans. The owners and coaches are too unprincipled to explain that to them.
started last year and increased along with the kneeing
Year after year, NASCAR has always ended first, leaving only football. Since the dropoff appears to have only occurred for the past two years, I'd suspect that NASCAR ending has little to do with it. While correlation isn't necessarily causation, it certainly provides a clue as to what's going on.
Wings used to be cheap. You could get a giant package of wings for $3 or so. Now the same size package costs $12. That’s the reason I stopped buying them. Too bad because I love making teriyaki garlic wings.
And whoever came up with “boneless wings” should be sued for false advertising.
Every time a waitress asks if I want “boneless wings” I politely inform her that there is no such thing.
I didn’t watch any NFL games but the YT videos clearly show he did not have control of ball when he hit the ground and also used the ground to trap the ball.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czgv7SUV1us
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