Posted on 06/03/2023 5:10:07 PM PDT by Morgana
Salespeople promoting Bud Light for a Florida–based distributor have grown accustomed to car horns, middle fingers and jokes amid a weekslong boycott, but say they have struggled to ignore thousands of dollars in lost commission pay, two sales supervisors at the distributor told ABC News.
A typical salesperson at the distributor made roughly $2,000 less in May than he or she would have over each of the previous two years, suffering primarily from a decline in Bud Light sales that reached as much as 60% over the week ending on Memorial Day, the sales supervisors said.
"This has really, really killed a lot of the guys who are commission-based. That's who it's really hurting," one supervisor said. "There's nothing they could've done -- this was thrown in their faces."
A consumer boycott of Anheuser-Busch InBev over a promotion in April from a trans influencer has pummeled the company's stock, but it has also brought financial pain for thousands of salespeople at independent distributors nationwide, many of whom depend largely on performance-based pay, former Anheuser-Busch InBev executive Anson Frericks told ABC News.
Sales of Bud Light have recorded declines for seven consecutive weeks after a product endorsement from Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender influencer, sparked backlash among many conservatives.
The boycott gained momentum, meanwhile, after the initial response from the company was perceived as conciliatory by some LGBTQ advocates, prompting frustration on the left.
Those losses have slashed the income of salespeople who work for roughly 500 independent wholesalers that sell Anheuser-Busch beverages to restaurants, bars and grocery stores, according to interviews with two distributors, two sales supervisors and Frericks.
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Yep. Look for other jobs.
Cue the crying Asian gal.
Well, the company should’ve chosen not to go woke!
I feel for the dealers. As for Transheuser Busch, eff them now, eff them tomorrow, and eff them until their very molecules pop out of existance. Die, die, die. Oh, make that suffer, suffer more, die, die, die. And take your beer with you, you spineless Dorkbamaholes.
Die Bud, die....
AB was once like winning the sales lottery. They show up, write down $20,000 order and earn a couple hundred dollars for one store and they might do 10 or 15 stores in a day.
“Die, die, die. Oh, make that suffer, suffer more, die, die, die. “
Cue Elmer Fudd dressed as a Viking
“Kill the Bud Light....Kill the Bud Light...Kill the BUUUUD Liiiight”
AB was once like winning the sales lottery. They show up, write down $20,000 order and earn a couple hundred dollars for one store and they might do 10 or 15 stores in a day.
There aren’t many sales jobs that you can earn $300,000 or $400,000/yr just by being willing to show up for work.
Two words.
Dust. Resume’.
I imagine that restaurants have contracts. When they can, they will change the contracts. When large chains decide to cut off AB InBev entirely (e.g. Pizza Hut restaurants, Longhorn Steakhouse, Olive Garden, Outback, Texas Roadhouse, etc.) the losses will be permanent. Because AB InBev and Miller-Coors are practically a duopoly in the U.S., there’s not even a way to have a merger or buyout to try to press reset.
I worked at Pizza Hut in 1982, when we replaced Miller Lite with Bud Light and it pretty much stayed there ever since. Forty-one years was a nice run.
These guys should go to a sports bar and offer to buy a round of Bud Lights. Then update their resume.
The best lessons in life tend to be painful.
Perhaps next time the head office sends you a sales pack with such offensive material you will send it back.....
Or were you offended?
Did you think all the giblits would give you a commission bump?
Were none of you in the loop for potential promotional adds and such?
give me a break.....
stockholders should sue and change the
Board of Directors..
Young men don’t want to be seen sucking on a BudLight bottle.
But, they have delivered beer to GIBLET events, such as drag shows and Pride parades (knowing children would be present), and set up the A/B Bud Light Pride displays in stores, all without a complaint over the past few years. I have little sympathy for them. It’s obvious they support such a decadent narrative. Otherwise, they would have looked for work elsewhere selling something that wasn’t representative of such evil and decadence.
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