Posted on 05/02/2023 6:59:56 PM PDT by Morgana
A disastrous marketing deal with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney has left Anheuser-Busch reeling — to the extent they’re giving away free cases of Bud Light.
The beer producer is giving away the drinks to distributors in a bid to reverse sharply declining sales, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Consumers have quickly cooled on the producer’s Bud Light beer in the wake of the partnership — in which Mulvaney promoted himself with personalized cans of the beverage last month.
The beer’s consumer base — many of them with conservative and traditional sympathies — began an impromptu boycott of the brand, which appears to be having a significant effect on the company.
Musician Kid Rock even filmed himself shooting several racks of the beer with a submachine gun.
Retail store sales of the beer brand declined by 21 percent during the week of Apr. 22 — all the while sales of competitors Coors Light and Miller Lite increased by the same amount, according to the Wall Street Journal.
An employee of one of Anheuser-Busch’s distributors is openly admitting that the marketing disaster is taking a toll on his own company’s business.
“It sent shock waves through distributors,” Jeff Wheeler told the Wall Street Journal of the Mulvaney partnership.
Wheeler is the vice president of marketing for Del Papa Distributing, a Houston, Texas-area company.
Wheeler says his own employees — who don’t work for Anheuser-Busch — have fielded “tons of phone calls from people being very hateful.”
Del Papa even released a statement criticizing Anheuser-Busch for its decision to work with Mulvaney — a business decision that jeopardized its distributors, many of them much smaller companies.
Anheuser-Busch responded to distributor discontent by sending a free case of Bud Light for each of the smaller companies’ employees, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Same with my regular grocery store. Bud’s been fully stocked and doesn’t appear to be moving for the past few weeks.
You don’t have to have “conservative and traditional sympathies” to be bothered by a man pretending to be a little girl endorsing your product.
“declined by 21 percent.” And it will keep falling, since no one is eager to celebrate phonies, losers and posers, like Dylan M. and Bud Light.
That makes me happy.
Excellent advice.
Good.
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@ImBreckWorsham
Dylan Mulvaney says he will sue anyone who continues to “misgender him.”
Fine, Dylan.
Donate some eggs at a fertility center and I will happily apologize.
5:25 PM · May 2, 2023
I have an acquaintance that works at the local Miller Coors Distributor. He sells Miller Lite. His volume in this single distributor is up 30,000 cases per day. He didn’t have number for Coors Light. Just said “they are slammed (with orders) too.”
It’s a tasteless, watery brew. It’s easily replaced with Miller Lite or Coors lite or even Corona lite. If all you want is the buzz, there are lots of tasteless watery substitutes. Once you associate the brand with gayness, guys will stay away in droves.
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