Clay Travis’ free beer experiment shows people ‘don’t want to be seen’ with Bud Light
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Weekend experiment. Beers in cooler at Nashville area event. Pick which beer you want. No one would take the Bud Light all night long. Big issue going forward for Bud Light is many don’t even want to be seen with product. They just pick another brand.
May I speak with a member of the Busch family that still has lots of money - I’ll hold....
Boycotting a dozen companies at the same time doesn’t work as well. You can only destroy one target at a time. This boycott is working because it has an isolated target, and the consumer has nothing to lose.
There is a cart in the local supermarket for donations to the local food bank. A case of Bud Light was in it!
This is the best advice I can think of. Don’t spend money on people/groups/companies that hate you. Next cut all spending to the bone. Start killing your debt. Hard times are coming and some cash in the bank and in the mattress will buy you options when the world stops turning. It’s slowing but it is fixing to stop. Our politicians and our neighbors and our families have spent way more than was proper or moral. Eventually the bill comes due. This QE + zero / near zero interest party just delayed the 2008 hard recessions until it gets turned into a depression. I am not sure if I can find a chart showing it but GDP minus deficit spending has been low/negative for a while.
Appreciate if anyone can find a good chart showing it. In 2019 GDP increased 2.29% to 21.38 trillion but deficit spending was about 1 trillion or 4.6%. Without deficit spending GDP is negative 2.3%. It has been that way for way too long. We have had true negative GDP while borrowing 20+ trillion to hide it. That is crazy and the people are too stupid to understand. Imagine 10-20 years of negative GDP growth. That happened but we think we are better off.
I have tried to make sense of this whole thing.
After considering hundreds of scenarios the highest probability is that InBev has contracts for a certain amount of supermarket shelf space, and if they get rid of the bud-lite they can make more money overall by selling higher margin products in that vacant space.
No heterosexual man will ever drink Bud Light again.
Bud Light is forever and indelibly linked with perversion. Rational decent people won’t buy or drink it or voluntarily associate with people who do.
Rules for radicals.
They started the game, keep playing it.
Oh, and my bet Bud is gone as a brand. InBev has no choice but to double down.
Losing market share is one thing. Losing the acceptance their peers is worse.
If Inbev goes down, it’s no skin off my nose.
Bfl
The bad thing for them is that there are lots of similar beers. Once people have switched and decided that their new beer brand is ok, they are unlikely to switch back.
Bkmk
I’m actually a bit surprised this is from Faux News.
I remember when I added Budweiser to my rotation
Skiing trip to Vermont.
Attractive young bartender asks me what I want.
I reply “a cold beer”.
She tilts her head, gives me a big smile, hands me a bud saying “Because U Deserve What Everyone Is Seriously Expecting to Receive”
Fast forward to 2033, good bye foreever Budweiser
abbl
anything but bud lite
I don’t care...I started buying any local lite beer and am satisficed. No more Bud of any kind.