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Bud Light suffers bloodbath as longtime and loyal consumers revolt against transgender campaign
fox business ^ | 04/11/2023

Posted on 04/11/2023 9:54:46 AM PDT by devane617

Bud Light suffered a bloodbath this past weekend.

Consumers nationwide revolted against the nation's top-selling beer brand after it stepped "recklessly" into the culture wars last week with its new spokesperson, transgender TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney, according to bar owners and beer-industry experts around the country.

"I think society flexes it muscles sometimes and reminds manufacturers that the consumer is still in charge," Jeff Fitter, owner of Case & Bucks, a restaurant and sports bar in Barnhart, Missouri, told FOX Business.

BUD LIGHT SAYS PACT WITH TRANS ACTIVIST DYLAN MULVANEY HELPS ‘AUTHENTICALLY CONNECT WITH AUDIENCES’

"In Bud Light's effort to be inclusive, they excluded almost everybody else, including their traditional audience."

He cited sports fans, working people and women as loyal Bud Light consumers the brand suddenly excluded in its race to go woke.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: beer; boycottbud; budlight; queerbeer; trans; transgender
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To: devane617

Repubs should elevate and pound the Trans issue. It’s such a loser for the Democrats.


21 posted on 04/11/2023 10:12:58 AM PDT by MDLION ("Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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To: Chainmail

Maybe she can save the brand by declaring it the Official Beer of Kwanzaa.


22 posted on 04/11/2023 10:13:01 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: stanne
My question is this: do the stockholders of these woke corporations ever get sick of watching their stockholder value wiped out by these moronic corporate dweebs pursing their little woke fantasies as their expense?

I guess not. Why aren't Disney stockholders, for example, seething mad about losing the sweetest deal the State of Florida every cut any corporation ever? I mean, they were a little sovereign statelet in Florida. How much was that worth? Disney decides to go to war with the Governor and they lose those rights of inestimable value? Why no stockholder revolt?

Weird.

23 posted on 04/11/2023 10:14:30 AM PDT by Thilly Thailor
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To: redgolum

Yep...couldn’t have happened to a bigger old fraud! Czech revenge!


24 posted on 04/11/2023 10:14:49 AM PDT by gr8eman (Stupid should hurt!!)
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To: devane617

Eff Bud.
Rinse, repeat.


25 posted on 04/11/2023 10:15:25 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: aquila48

“And guess what? All those “conservative” boycotter will be back drinking that piss within a year.”

This is my feeling as well. They may take some short term hits from their base. BUT they will have possibly brought on LGB people.

And then Bud Light drinkers are creatures of habit, the majority are likely to return.

IMO.. What AB should have done would be to revive an old/ discontinued product (e.g. Red Dog/ Plank Road) and marketed THAT specifically to that audience. If it is actually Bud Light in that can, even easier.


26 posted on 04/11/2023 10:16:41 AM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: devane617


27 posted on 04/11/2023 10:17:45 AM PDT by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, LGBTQs, RINOs, Islamonazis, Marxists, Commucrats: It's a Godlessness disorder!)
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To: ßuddaßudd
"the .gov is the natural next step for these nitwits ."

Yup.

28 posted on 04/11/2023 10:17:59 AM PDT by blam
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To: devane617

I’m more offended that Bud Light is classified as “beer”…


29 posted on 04/11/2023 10:18:50 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: devane617

Even full-strength Budweiser sucks. I can’t believe there’s actually a market for the watered-down kind. In cans no less. What on earth would you have to be used to swallowing, that would make you think this stuff by comparison was a good drink?


30 posted on 04/11/2023 10:20:18 AM PDT by 4Runner
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To: napscoordinator

On the plus-side for the company....they have various deals with arenas/stadiums that Bud Light is the only beer offered or sold. On the negative...they need beverage shop cash flow.

I would argue on this...at time in the past 50 years....have we had so many varieties of beer offered in local beverage shops. As crappy as Bud Light was...some folks are probably shocked at the better offerings on the market.


31 posted on 04/11/2023 10:20:29 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: uranium penguin

Time is of the essence, lump in Anheuser Busch brand Corona with the upcoming holidays and maybe we can score the immediate firing of her before people lose interest.


32 posted on 04/11/2023 10:21:17 AM PDT by Reno89519 (I stand with Trump Against Political Persecution. As DeSantis Says, It Is Un-American.)
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To: devane617

does Alissa Heinerscheid even know a redneck?


33 posted on 04/11/2023 10:21:29 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Pete Dovgan

<>I wonder what happens to the 25 year old VP of Marketing? Who is going to hire her next?<>

Probably the same people who hired the marketer of New Coke.


34 posted on 04/11/2023 10:21:41 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: uranium penguin

Yeah...I will never understand. My redneck brother used to drink BudLite by the gallon. If I take a sip of that crap it comes out a lot faster than it came in!


35 posted on 04/11/2023 10:22:31 AM PDT by gr8eman (Stupid should hurt!!)
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To: stanne

Ayn Rand wrote a book about this...Atlas Shrugged.


36 posted on 04/11/2023 10:22:39 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Thilly Thailor

“My question is this: do the stockholders of these woke corporations ever get sick of watching their stockholder value wiped out by these moronic corporate dweebs pursing their little woke fantasies as their expense?”

They don’t seem to. No.

My question is this who subsidizes them to be doing social engineering over and above sales and consumer advocacy.

It’s obvious that’s what they’re doing.


37 posted on 04/11/2023 10:22:48 AM PDT by stanne
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To: devane617

I saw a clip of the VP of marketing for Bud Lite who, in addition to identifying herself as the “head” of Bud Lite, thanked her entire team (mostly women) for defending each other in promoting their shared values. It made me think that Anheuser-Busch (or InBev or whatever) had a fiduciary responsible to fire her or get sued by stockholders; she plainly was not primarily concerned with profitability or sales, but in the promotion of an ideology.

TL/DR: Boycott the whole damned company or your “protest” abstention from Bud Lite doesn’t mean crap.


38 posted on 04/11/2023 10:22:48 AM PDT by dangus ( )
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To: stanne

They Don’t Care...
.
We will see .
The damage is done and They can’t fix It.


39 posted on 04/11/2023 10:23:00 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: devane617

40 posted on 04/11/2023 10:23:01 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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