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Casualties of Wokeism: Glass Bottling Plants Forced to Shut Down Over Bud Light Debacle
Red Wave ^ | July 2, 2023 | Staff

Posted on 07/03/2023 8:25:08 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger
Another similar article said the boycott was affecting farmers. That set off my BS alarm because 1. there hasn't been a grain harvest since this started, and 2. unlike glass, there isn't any Bud Light specific tooling for barley so it can be used by any brewer instantly.

They are really trying to pile on the guilt to break up. Sorry, guys, but the mainstream brews brands of light beer are largely interchangeable. No one has turned down a Miller Lite or a Coors Light while holding out for a Bud Light. There may be some brand loyalty based on an adverised trained conditioned response, but none on actual flavor. And now that trained response has been shattered.

41 posted on 07/03/2023 9:45:51 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago )
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To: Red Badger

The laid off employees should sue the parent company for that caustic approach to advertising. Make THEM pay for what they’ve done to these employees.

But for going woke, they’d still have a job.


42 posted on 07/03/2023 9:56:24 AM PDT by meyer (FBI = KGB for the DNC; IRS = Gestapo)
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To: V_TWIN

Trickle down Bidenomics.


43 posted on 07/03/2023 10:09:35 AM PDT by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: Bonemaker

As the Mom of one of those laid off employees, they are angry. Very angry to have lost well paying jobs with good benefits all because of the arrogance and ignorance of one marketing team who failed to see what the fallout would be in what they were doing. And it’s not only the employees who will suffer but the local community as a whole. Those employees spent their paychecks, which in turn supported many local businesses. The taxes the company paid to the town will no longer be there either. What effect will that have to those who live there in the near future? Hard working men and women now have to wonder what’s next for them? Many of them older....40’s, 50’s & up who have worked there their whole lives and raised families and some are putting their kids through college on those great paychecks. Gone. All because A-B thought it would be a good idea to hire some woke morons for their marketing department. Honestly, what do you think they are saying about this? Nothing good I can tell you that!


44 posted on 07/03/2023 11:08:38 AM PDT by bohica1
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To: spokeshave

Exactly right!


45 posted on 07/03/2023 11:09:56 AM PDT by bohica1
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To: Red Badger

You are correct. A-B was their biggest customer.


46 posted on 07/03/2023 11:11:35 AM PDT by bohica1
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I’ve seen similar thing happen at a company I used to work for.

They had ONE BIG CUSTOMER, and did not bother to try and get others.

Then that one big customer changed their suppliers, and the company had to lay off hundreds...........


47 posted on 07/03/2023 11:19:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: broken_clock

Yep. A-B has been their biggest customer for as long as I can remember. My husband started working there back in 1977 [now retired], and A-B was their biggest customer back then. Probably their biggest customer from the time the plant first opened? It easy to say just switch to making something else. Not so easy or cost effective to do for the company.


48 posted on 07/03/2023 11:22:43 AM PDT by bohica1
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To: Red Badger

IF I remember correctly, a few years ago this plant tried to get contracts to make other types of bottles/jars, but unfortunately it didn’t happen for one reason or another.


49 posted on 07/03/2023 11:27:11 AM PDT by bohica1
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To: bohica1

Sorry for your son and colleagues. Sort of the same fate the bastard Biden delivered to the Keystone workers, energy sector in general, and god knows who else. When will the nightmare end?


50 posted on 07/03/2023 11:37:30 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: bohica1

Tooling up costs can be prohibitive.................


51 posted on 07/03/2023 11:46:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: GOPJ

Bud hired a fruity guy that prances around acting like a 12 year old girl.
I thought using minors to sell alcohol was illegal..


52 posted on 07/03/2023 12:43:40 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Red Badger
Bud Light 1993


53 posted on 07/03/2023 1:17:40 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXc5Oe_kj8k


54 posted on 07/03/2023 1:19:31 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

That was good.
Credits show Roger Moore as a reporter, but I didn’t recognize him.


55 posted on 07/05/2023 7:18:21 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: Red Badger

The woke chick who did this couldn’t care less about hurting the company she was hired to help.


56 posted on 07/05/2023 7:35:13 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: smokingfrog

He was in disguise..................


57 posted on 07/05/2023 7:36:11 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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