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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Learn to code
“Blame the company not the customer”
Some distributors are trying to do both.
See the link in my post @ #72.
“We complained to corporate”
“You shouldn’t allow a few people tell you what you should eat or drink”
IMO the distributor is tone deaf. It is not a “few people” driving this boycott. The boycott is because normal people are finally starting to get fed up with the constant bombardment of the homo agenda.
Brandon says “learn to code.”
So, everyone is supposed to cave to A-B because the company will not directly apologize and do a 180 degree turn and directly say they do not support sexual perversion? Nope.
A-B, the main corporation, must come out and say something like this but with far more detail in the apology and disavowment of sexual perversion. If they don’t do it within about a week, their brand is going to be dead and others will take its place. You are either FOR doing business, or FOR the sexual perverts. You can NOT do both.
One single can, not for sale, and not approved. Hmm. Don’t make excuses, make a career move.
Why not sue Budweiser management for gross stupidity?
It’s not our fault their home office supports weirdos who believe in sexually mutilating and sterilizing children.
Max Zahn would have us crying for Hitler’s death Camp guards who lost their jobs after the camps were liberated.
I’m sick of pity parties for thugs... and weirdos and perverts.
#20 That asian woman should be on beer cans. She is pretty.
That’s what I think. They should sue her. She’s the one who told us all that it was her job to change the “fratty” image. Boy, did she.
These guys are also probably po’d that they didn’t get their “salesman of the year” trophies.
It’s sad that the marketing lady still has a job after literally being the cause of taking money from the delivery drivers, warehouse workers loading/unloading, and the many distributors (some are multi-generational families).
I’d sue AB INBEV for lost revenue, collusion (how many companies are kowtowing to the ESG/CEI rankings??), go after them under RICO statutes, and generally make life a living hell.
Maybe the employees should bring a class action lawsuit for damages from the blackmailing of InBev executives by the woke capitalists that insist they suicide their companies.
LOLOL...
Their gay homosexual outreach marketing was low key direct marketing at events and gay homosexual bars.
It worked!
“ May I remind you that this whole business started with the substitution of “gay” for homosexual?”
I don’t get it. I’ve heard it before and want to understand. Can someone explain this idea, please?
For example, “homosexual” has an entirely different meaning than “gay.”
Ergo, LIEberals caused the word “homosexual” to disappear FRom common usage, and “gay” was substituted. “Gay” is not nearly as threatening a word as “homosexual” is.
Read The Left’s Manipulative Use of Language @ https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/05/18/the-lefts-manipulative-use-of-language/
Do some research on your own, and I suspect that you will come to understand what I am talking about.
[I use "LIEberal" in place of "liberal" to point out to my readers that LIEberals LIE in order to achieve their goals!]
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