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Retailers already planning to reallocate Bud Light's shelf space, rival drink executive says
Fox News ^ | August 3, 2023 | By Alexander Hall

Posted on 08/04/2023 10:43:29 PM PDT by 11th_VA

The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that "Bud Light sales might never fully regain the ground they have lost to competitors" as stores clear their shelves to make room for other brands...

On Thursday, Anheuser-Busch InBev also announced that it would be laying off hundreds of workers.

The Wall Street Journal noted that as Bud Light sales continue "cratering," the "biggest beneficiary of Bud Light’s woes" is rival company Molson Coors Beverage.

"There are reasons to believe that Bud Light sales might be permanently impaired. Molson Coors Chief Executive Gavin Hattersley said on a conference call with analysts that retailers are already reallocating space to other brands during shelf resets that take place in the spring, with more resets to come in the fall," The Journal reported. "In bars and other on-premise channels, the company (Coors) gained more than 12,000 tap handles in the quarter, he added."

Washington Post journalist Megan McArdle responded to The Journal’s report, "I remain shocked by the durability of the effects of the conservative boycott on Bud Light. WSJ reports that retailers are now reallocating shelf space to other brands, which will help lock in the decline."

An anonymous beer distributor told the New York Post on Monday about how Bud Light as a brand may never fully recover from its controversy, partially because of the nature of the beer market itself.

"Consumers have made a choice," the executive told The Post. "They have left [Bud Light] and that’s how it’s going to be. I don’t envision a big percentage of them coming back."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beer; brokebackbeer; budlight; getwoke; gobroke; gowokegobroke; queerbeer; retailspace
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1 posted on 08/04/2023 10:43:29 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

At my regular grocery store, the Bud Light portion of the beer section has all but vanished. I saw three 12-packs there Thursday and that was it.


2 posted on 08/04/2023 10:46:11 PM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: 11th_VA

There’s no reason having old skanky beer nobody wants


3 posted on 08/04/2023 10:51:47 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Allegra

👍


4 posted on 08/04/2023 10:52:27 PM PDT by 11th_VA (XX < > XY)
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To: 11th_VA
Retail competition is vicious and shelf space in stores is at a premium.

Bud's steep drop in market share is disastrous because the decline is sales is going to result in retailers cutting down on the shelf space for Bud products and re allocating that lost space to competitors

AB will have a very difficult time clawing back the lost space from their competitors once they have lost it.

5 posted on 08/04/2023 10:52:49 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: NWFree

I love happy news 📰📰📰📰


6 posted on 08/04/2023 11:07:07 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: 11th_VA

Retail shelf space is valuable. Stores charge for premium locations on the shelves and also want products that will keep people coming in


7 posted on 08/04/2023 11:15:54 PM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: 11th_VA

With stuff like beer, where there are many alternatives, once you’ve given a customer a reason to leave, then he needs a good reason to come back to you.


8 posted on 08/04/2023 11:16:40 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: 11th_VA

The beer equivalent of the theater saying “You could shoot moose in the lobby” when there are few paying customers.


9 posted on 08/04/2023 11:37:34 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: 11th_VA
"I remain shocked by the durability of the effects of the conservative boycott on Bud Light." said totally head up her @$$ WaPo journalist Megan McArdle, but I guess that's redundant. -fJRoberts-
10 posted on 08/04/2023 11:39:20 PM PDT by A strike ("The worse, the better."- Lenin (& Schwab & Soros)
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To: 11th_VA

Molson Coors is just as woke but never used a pretend girls to sell pretend beer. I stick to the fine local brew pubs. It is more expensive for sure but the “macrobeers” (great ad campaign from Miller by the way) are just so boring.


11 posted on 08/04/2023 11:44:16 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: SauronOfMordor
With stuff like beer, where there are many alternatives [...]

Tomato juice, orange juice, chocolate milk, coffee...

Regards,

12 posted on 08/05/2023 1:19:36 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: A strike

It’s not a “conservative boycott”. It’s a banishment of anti American morals and principals.


13 posted on 08/05/2023 1:33:55 AM PDT by albie
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To: 11th_VA

I figured the reallocation phase would have already begun, certainly by the 4 of July week.


14 posted on 08/05/2023 2:31:50 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: 11th_VA

I don’t think there really was a boycott as much as a preference shift. Sure, many people loudly advocated stiffing the brand. But so many people were either personally insulted (fratboy image) by Bud Light execs or revulsed by Dylan who’s-it. The alternate light beer choices are vast including bunches of “craft beer” makers entering the market during the Bud Light hay days.


15 posted on 08/05/2023 3:42:35 AM PDT by jimfree (My 20 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: rdcbn1

“Retail competition is vicious...”

That is rule #1 that every retail product advertising department knows.....except for ENBEV AB......AND they more than likely could have even saved the brand after this monumental PR blunder but nooooo, They had to stick by their woke ideology.....well, they made their bed.....let ‘em lie in it.

A hard lesson they are now learning, and I suspect others are recalculating how they will proceed in the future.


16 posted on 08/05/2023 3:43:32 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: jimfree

Which is why WSJ’s ‘lost to competitors’ phrase is quite the Bowdlerized version - typical of this paper with an unearned reputation for balance or even conservative leanings. It’s not as if Miller Lite et al suddenly became more popular for no apparent reason.

It would be like saying ‘The US gained ownership of numerous Pacific islands in the 40s.’ A rather significant backstory omitted.


17 posted on 08/05/2023 3:58:54 AM PDT by relictele
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To: Allegra

Many people still clamor for an apology but what good would that do now?

Moreover, the only apology or statement that would matter would be a categorical repudiation of ‘trans.’ Male cannot become female and vice versa.

That will never happen so they’ve made their choice already or had it made for them. Madness but then so is all of ESG.

My expectation is that Bud Light will eventually simply be rebranded without any change in the already horrid product. Eagle iconography is already part of AB’s marketing eg Budweiser. BL will become ‘Bud Eagle’ to tie in with the iconography. It will still suggest ‘light’ beer since eagles fly and float on the winds. And it will be a cynical exploitation of patriotism.

It will also be a shot across the bow - or beak - of Yuengling. Yuengling have been playing up the homegrown angle for some time and have a light beer called Flight.


18 posted on 08/05/2023 4:08:55 AM PDT by relictele
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To: relictele

Words never matter.

Actions do.

All senior executives should have been fired immediately.

Then the words can be spoken—if they are the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

“The senior executive team we just fired hated and insulted our customers. That is why we fired them.”


19 posted on 08/05/2023 4:14:26 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: NWFree
There’s no reason having old skanky beer nobody wants

It is really crappy beer, fizzy water with alcohol in it. As Bud Lite drinkers taste other beers they will not come back to Bud Lite.

20 posted on 08/05/2023 4:28:45 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-roughneck-geologist- instructor pilot-almost chemist-pharmacist-retired.)
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