June 08, 2023
A-B on the Rocks
Timothy Birdnow
My brother works for Anheuser-Busch and he says the boycott is killing them. Last year at this time they were very busy. Now the brewery is a ghost town.
The management is asking the staff to come up with ways to win customers back. (Of course they wouldn't dream of doing the obvious, which is to support conservative groups and causes.)
Let's keep at it! Our boycott is working!
The first woke boycott that I remember, the one that started the whole thing off, was the labor union boycott of Coors beer. They boycotted Coors ostensibly because that company - run by the right wing Joseph Coors, and it was their donation that started the American Conservative Union - ostensibly "mistreated" employees. The reality is the unions wanted in there and Coors wouldn't let them. So they boycotted, and made ridiculous claims like the beer was biologically infectious because they didn't pasteurize.
But it workd. For ten years the unions boycotted and Coors sales dropped. There were laws against transporting Coors east of the Mississippi. In fact, that was the theme of the Burt Reynolds movie Smokie and the Bandit; Reynolds' character was bootlegging Coors to Alabama.
But it worked; the younger Coors kids who took over waved the white flag and Coors became as woke and liberal as any other big corporation.
This opened the floodgates and the Left has used Coors as their model to enforce political correctness on corporate America.
Coors is now owned by Molson, a Canadian company.
So we have to do this ourselves. There are more of us, and our boycott will have a greater impact.
Anheuser Busch is in trouble in more ways than one though. Their backing down has the LGBTQ prancers boycotting A-B Inbev for listening to their customer base as well.
They really screwed up with this issue.
My brother said talk around the brewery was that the base would come back after an initial "hissy fit". It's not happening now.
So they will learn the hard way that you cannot insult or offend your core customer base.
A-B forgets too that as they are now Belgian owned the public is less forgiving than they would have been had A-B remained American. Why buy pisswater beer from a European company that insults you?
I hope we keep it up - and do it to other woke corporations as well.
We must make them fear our power.
My brother works for Anheuser-Busch and he says the boycott is killing them. Last year at this time they were very busy. Now the brewery is a ghost town.
The management is asking the staff to come up with ways to win customers back. (Of course they wouldn't dream of doing the obvious, which is to support conservative groups and causes.)
Let's keep at it! Our boycott is working!
The first woke boycott that I remember, the one that started the whole thing off, was the labor union boycott of Coors beer. They boycotted Coors ostensibly because that company - run by the right wing Joseph Coors, and it was their donation that started the American Conservative Union - ostensibly "mistreated" employees. The reality is the unions wanted in there and Coors wouldn't let them. So they boycotted, and made ridiculous claims like the beer was biologically infectious because they didn't pasteurize.
But it workd. For ten years the unions boycotted and Coors sales dropped. There were laws against transporting Coors east of the Mississippi. In fact, that was the theme of the Burt Reynolds movie Smokie and the Bandit; Reynolds' character was bootlegging Coors to Alabama.
But it worked; the younger Coors kids who took over waved the white flag and Coors became as woke and liberal as any other big corporation.
This opened the floodgates and the Left has used Coors as their model to enforce political correctness on corporate America.
Coors is now owned by Molson, a Canadian company.
So we have to do this ourselves. There are more of us, and our boycott will have a greater impact.
Anheuser Busch is in trouble in more ways than one though. Their backing down has the LGBTQ prancers boycotting A-B Inbev for listening to their customer base as well.
They really screwed up with this issue.
My brother said talk around the brewery was that the base would come back after an initial "hissy fit". It's not happening now.
So they will learn the hard way that you cannot insult or offend your core customer base.
A-B forgets too that as they are now Belgian owned the public is less forgiving than they would have been had A-B remained American. Why buy pisswater beer from a European company that insults you?
I hope we keep it up - and do it to other woke corporations as well.
We must make them fear our power.
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I was gonna observe that if the beer were actually drinkable, that might make a difference if they came to their senses, but since it isn't, and people have otherwise been drinking it for years (along with the even worse Miller Lite), what'cha gonna do?
I'd boycott the swill if I could, but since I haven't drunk a drop of any AB product in probably thirty years, I can't mount an effective boycott on the stuff.
I'd boycott the swill if I could, but since I haven't drunk a drop of any AB product in probably thirty years, I can't mount an effective boycott on the stuff.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at June 08, 2023 09:49 PM (pdDZ2)
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After hearing your story, I believe that consumer boycotts can be a powerful tool to hold corporations accountable and influence their actions based on customer values and concerns. fnf
Posted by: Mikasa Ackerman at June 08, 2023 11:01 PM (uYp97)
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I was driving an 18-wheeler for a steel company in the 60s, back and forth with lumber for building pallets from Atlanta to Houston and steel on the reverse trip. I would load up with 32 cases of Coors in Houston at $12 per case, and sell them in Atlanta for $38-$42 per case. I could get 32 cases in the tool lockers, which were cooled by a/c ducts I had rerouted. Nice racket.
Posted by: Bill H at June 08, 2023 11:49 PM (Q7br2)
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Interesting. Thank you for sharing your insights on the impact of the boycott on Anheuser-Busch. It seems their management is now looking for ways to regain customers' trust, although they are hesitant to support conservative groups.The effectiveness of boycotts can vary, so we'll have to wait and see how this situation unfolds for Anheuser-Busch. | Junk removal services.
Posted by: Becky at June 09, 2023 04:33 AM (R3fgl)
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Ah Dana; there's the rub. Why drink bad beer when you don't even have patriotism to fall back on.
Michelob lite wasn't too bad, but Bud Lite was dreadful.
Michelob lite wasn't too bad, but Bud Lite was dreadful.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at June 09, 2023 07:17 AM (EdnIZ)
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Thanks Mikasa Ackerman.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at June 09, 2023 07:18 AM (EdnIZ)
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I'm goin to have to start calling you Bootleg Bill!
Did you worry about getting caught? I'd sweat bullets if I was hauling contraband, even if it was a product that should have been allowed. You are a steely-eyed submariner Bill!
Did you worry about getting caught? I'd sweat bullets if I was hauling contraband, even if it was a product that should have been allowed. You are a steely-eyed submariner Bill!
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at June 09, 2023 07:20 AM (EdnIZ)
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Agreed. Thanks Becky.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at June 09, 2023 07:21 AM (EdnIZ)
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Well, I was also running 15,000# to 20,000# overweight, so the bootlegging would have been the least of my problems.
Posted by: Bill H at June 09, 2023 09:32 AM (Q7br2)
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The only bad thing about this boycott is that it hurts the truckers who deliver Bud Light, and their families. I'm sure the beer distributors aren't paying the truckers to haul unsold cases of beer around as a "make-work" project.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at June 10, 2023 12:29 AM (pdDZ2)
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You earn my respect for steel nerves Bill!
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at June 10, 2023 07:28 AM (KEGU7)
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Good point Dana.
BTW While we are familiar with the main A-B products, you must remember they own a bunch of smaller breweries now and so you have to boycott any of those - including Becks, the German beer, Stella Artois, Carlsburg, Goose Island, Elysian, and a host of other. And then there is Inbev, which owns Corona and a number of others. So a boycott needs to be any and every beer put out by the AB-Inbev corporation.
Ab has bought out of over craft breweries in recent years.
Yesterday Cathy and I went out to eat. We got a late start and it wound up being a miserable outing, but the place we went to was a "sports bar and grill" type place (because it was late) and they had eight beers on tap - all AB products. I had gin and tonics.
BTW While we are familiar with the main A-B products, you must remember they own a bunch of smaller breweries now and so you have to boycott any of those - including Becks, the German beer, Stella Artois, Carlsburg, Goose Island, Elysian, and a host of other. And then there is Inbev, which owns Corona and a number of others. So a boycott needs to be any and every beer put out by the AB-Inbev corporation.
Ab has bought out of over craft breweries in recent years.
Yesterday Cathy and I went out to eat. We got a late start and it wound up being a miserable outing, but the place we went to was a "sports bar and grill" type place (because it was late) and they had eight beers on tap - all AB products. I had gin and tonics.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at June 10, 2023 07:36 AM (KEGU7)
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Maybe you need to move. Here in the Twin Cities we have some local breweries whose products are available on local taps, and I always ask for them.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at June 10, 2023 11:40 PM (pdDZ2)
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Dana, St. Louis is lousy with microbreweries. A lot of the people running them moved here specifically because it's a Mecca for brewers. Most restaurants have local taps - at least Schlafley and usually Urban Chestnut. But this place had nothing but Buttwiper and associated products.
I could have driven a little farther and gone to Schlafley and had better food too; they have the best fish and chips in the city.
And then there is wine. We are a big wine producer and it's good, but you can barely if ever find Missouri wine on restaurant menus. It drives the vinters crazy.
I could have driven a little farther and gone to Schlafley and had better food too; they have the best fish and chips in the city.
And then there is wine. We are a big wine producer and it's good, but you can barely if ever find Missouri wine on restaurant menus. It drives the vinters crazy.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at June 11, 2023 07:57 AM (Bz6pm)
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