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Every week since April 1 and Bud Light's marketing decision fiasco, the company has trotted out another trial balloon suggesting that someone or some-group is to blame for their troubles.

They refuse to simply admit they made a serious mistake by not recognizing their consumer base. I don't think the latest is going to go over any better than the previous excuses.

1 posted on 05/08/2023 4:55:48 AM PDT by CFW
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What is the “misinformation?”

Are they contending they never paid to have a social media transvestite advertise Bud Light with a can with the thing’s likeness?

Talk about bizarre.


41 posted on 05/08/2023 5:47:45 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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while two Bud Light executives have taken leaves of absence.

If you aren't firing those responsible, then you haven't admitted you made a mistake.

43 posted on 05/08/2023 5:51:37 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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I'll bet the misinformation is what they've said before, that it was just one can and not a formal advertising campaign. But, you just know it was a trial balloon on social media to see how it was received. If it hadn't been boycotted, they would have brought out that formal advertisement waiting in the wings.
45 posted on 05/08/2023 5:55:45 AM PDT by DejaJude (I'll be back, again.)
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I’m misinformed just about every time I see a newscast involving Joe Biden.


46 posted on 05/08/2023 5:55:48 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Misinformation? Bull chit. This is the arrogance of globalists. They don’t deserve to be in charge of anything. No one needs AB. When people lack all taste and drink AB products, they can easily change brands to some other conglomerate piss water. (Or they can develop some discernment.) AB is the perfect sacrifice. Kill it all as a message to all woke globalists.


49 posted on 05/08/2023 5:59:51 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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Delusional.


52 posted on 05/08/2023 6:19:05 AM PDT by drwoof
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Yeah, misinformation. That wasn’t that make pretending to be a female on the can. /snark


53 posted on 05/08/2023 6:22:57 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Nice try ... ... ...

54 posted on 05/08/2023 6:28:23 AM PDT by budj
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Some facts about Bud Light:

1. I pee better beer.


55 posted on 05/08/2023 6:32:17 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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I’ve seen comparisons of this to the New Coke.

Now the problem with this is really simple; Coca Cola sales SPIKED after that mistake. It took a proposed change in formula to make people realize they really did love the product that may have been going away. The protest was in favor for the company not changing anything.

The head of marketing stayed on and wrote a book about it. However this is one time in marketing history a mistake was turned into a positive.

The other crisis mentioned was Tylenol as a textbook example of how to save and rehabilitate a brand in the worst of circumstances.

Bud Light has done absolutely nothing to rehabilitate the brand or enhance or make people love the product more that they may have liked previously.

This is about the worst corporate decision making I have ever seen.


61 posted on 05/08/2023 7:16:45 AM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark (There is no one more racist than a white liberal.)
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Somebody needs to pry the shovel from his cold dead hands.


62 posted on 05/08/2023 7:19:32 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) We're all Women now.)
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It would be easier just to throw the ivy leaguer under the bus but they can’t really do that because upper mgmt was in on it from the beginning.


64 posted on 05/08/2023 7:25:12 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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InBev is caught on the horns.

They made both sides angry.

Part of me wonders if this was an intentional hit. Right, left, or center, no one is happy at bud right now.


72 posted on 05/08/2023 7:36:50 AM PDT by redgolum (We are not going to make it, are we. )
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Misinformation?

That dude in a dress and makeup was parading himself all over social media with your product prominently displayed, A-B.

Your firm was celebrating him. Right in our faces.

Nice try, though.


74 posted on 05/08/2023 7:40:29 AM PDT by Allegra
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I went to dinner Saturday night at a nice restaurant/bed & breakfast here in southern NH. This is a small place that just reopened recently under new ownership. I asked the bartender who is a friend of mine and the manager IF they had sold any Bud Light lately? His reply was: “not a one”

Then he told me how he cancelled the order for another keg he had on order and switched it to another brand.


76 posted on 05/08/2023 7:52:19 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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IOWs stifle free speech so we can survive...

What a piss ant..


79 posted on 05/08/2023 8:03:52 AM PDT by sit-rep
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No misinformation at all: You used a tranny to push your beer and people didn’t like it one bit.


80 posted on 05/08/2023 8:05:53 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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I heard this morning A/B has Fired the advertising agency that was responsible for this. IF that is true those guys are out tens of Millions of Dollars. Next the executives that were put on leave need to be "Canned" next.

Will this fix the mess? Who knows

Bud Light "Pissed"off 80% of it's customers who are SICK and TIRED of the "Woke ism" that is being crammed down our Throats it might be too Late to try and "fix" this!

84 posted on 05/08/2023 9:36:41 AM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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I don't think the latest is going to go over any better than the previous excuses.

You're right! The hole they are digging just keeps getting deeper and deeper.

85 posted on 05/08/2023 9:58:19 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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They may not have to admit anything.

How much beer do local, state, and federal governments buy?

Bet some new contracts are in the offing...


92 posted on 05/09/2023 3:56:38 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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