Bud Light is ‘coming back’ but controversy is a ‘wake-up call,’ Anheuser-Busch exec says

CNN ^ | 6/20/23 | Matt Egan

[CatOwner]

You’ve quoted a post that was not made by me.

[HamiltonJay]

“Marcondes struck an optimistic tone about Bud Light and said the brand will begin to go around the country to reconnect with consumers.

“It’s coming back,” he said.”

God do I feel pity for the poor girls that are going to work these events... I am sure they are going to face more rejection than they are used to at the their cute young ages trying to push Bud Light SWAG into the hands of folks who want nothing to do with it.

[SaveFerris]

By “coming back” he means "Our plan failed miserably so we must tell even bigger lies"

[SaveFerris]

[Too late. No straight man will ever drink a Bud Light in public again.]

THIS

[SaveFerris]

[What am I leaving out? Help me out here.]

Well, you left out the best one:

A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy!!!

(LOL)

[SaveFerris]

[Definitely gaslighting.]

He graduated from the George Costanza School of Marketing

[Jamestown1630]

I will never understand why big companies like this are willing to lose so much to cater to such a tiny portion of the public. It’s insane.

Maybe they think that they’ll drag a lot of the straight-but-woke young along; but many of those kids are going to grow up and get some brains.

[SSS Two]

AB Inbev needs to spin-off Anheuser Busch with new American leadership.

The new American management team could explain that it was wrong to think great American brands like Budweiser and Bud Light should be run by wussies from Belgium. Clydesdales! Victory!

(Alissa Heinerscheid moves to Belgium to live happily ever after and that Mexican beer brand is no longer #1.)

[1Old Pro]

I will never understand why big companies like this are willing to lose so much to cater to such a tiny portion of the public. It’s insane.

Me neither

[FrankRizzo890]

blah, blah, blah, blah. Still no apology.

[SaveFerris]

[Maybe they think that they’ll drag a lot of the straight-but-woke young]

Coming soon: Bud Light sponsors DQSH at local libraries.....

[FlingWingFlyer]

More CNN fake news.

[T.B. Yoits]

Budweiser has been in trouble and was going broke before they went woke. (It's not "get woke - go broke", it's "going broke - desperately go woke - go more broke").

Still debt heavy from SABMiller deal, Anheuser-Busch InBev to sell minority stake in its U.S. can plants (December 2020)
https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2020/12/29/anheuser-busch-inbev-to-sell-stake-in-us-can-plant.html

Anheuser-Busch to Sell Houston-based Longhorn Glass to Ardagh Group (January 29, 2021)
https://www.brewbound.com/news/anheuser-busch-to-sell-houston-based-longhorn-glass-to-ardagh-group

Beer Behemoth Anheuser-Busch Is Selling Its Oakland Plant — And Eliminating 142 Jobs (July 2022)
https://sf.eater.com/2022/7/21/23272992/anheuser-busch-oakland-factory-closings-layoffs

[drSteve78]

Believe that it’s called Wishful Thinking

[IamConservative]

I read their sales have gone below Bud Light week 1 sales.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

BLA, BLA, BLA, LIES as usual!!

[Steely Tom]

That rain on my leg is kind of warm.

[Seruzawa]

I can proudly state that I am incapable of boycotting Bud Light or any InBev product.

[cpdiii]

Oddly they will never recover despite what they do. Lite beers really taste awful and bud lite is at the top of the awful list. They do not really taste bad but have very little taste.

Bud Lite drinkers that try a descent beer will not come back to Bud Lite.

[minnesota_bound]

I don’t think they actually fired anyone. Laid one off with pay is all I read.