Poll of the Day > What's the dealio with the Bud Light thing? Like, sales-wise

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(not a political one, unless we simply call pro LGBT things political by their nature which of course they aren't inherently).

edit: though, something else: this could have the double whammy of pissing of their core customers but pro LGBT customer DONT get on board because a) Bud Light is disgusting and b) they recognize it as pandering.

All I have to say is that the far right cult members that are "boycotting" Bud Light are still buying other beers, made by the same company. They whine about cancel culture yet they do the same. They're idiots through and through.

The controversy appears to be taking its toll on other brands within the Anheuser-Busch umbrella.
The companys flagship Budweiser brand took an 11.4% sales hit for the week ended April 29. Sales of Buds Michelob Ultra brand the third-biggest-selling in the US behind No. 1 Bud Light and No. 2 Modelo Especial were down 4.4%, according to Bump Williams data.
Its not just a Bud Light issue, said Bump Williams, chief executive of the consultancy Its an Anheuser-Busch portfolio problem now.

ab stock has trended upwards through the whole "boycott"

it did literally nothing to them

I would guess that there were a lot of bud light drinkers that jumped ship to something like coors but it's probably slightly offset by people buying bud light directly as a result of the backlash. Overall, I feel like bud light's demographic is mostly belligerent rednecks so probably will hurt them a little long term

I live in a rural area and can't find these controversial bud light cans.

Also bud light was the beer of choice at a gay club I used to frequent.

I live in a rural area and can't find these controversial bud light cans.

Also bud light was the beer of choice at a gay club I used to frequent.

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that little dip is all the boycott managed to achieve lol

Youre absolutely mind boggling. I replied directly to you earlier and showcased how you were objectively incorrect. And yet you doubled down on it. So bizarre.

Instead of a link, Ill do a pic for you this time. Maybe youll get it? But I wont hold my breath.

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that little dip is all the boycott managed to achieve lol

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Basically bud lights core customer base is intolerant rednecks.

so they started a marketing campaign that was probably aimed at getting younger more tolerant people into drinking their beer. (Or beer in general) that uses a trans person as a marketing strategy.

naturally their bigoted core audience cares less about their product than the marketing on the can/bottle/cardboard packaging.

edit- maybe they should do diff marketing by region. You know some buck toothed pick up truck cartoonish redneck stereotype playing the banjo in regions that make up the demographic of their core audience and the trans marketing everywhere else.

Im not allowed to go any further into the specifics of this discussion because the mods here will suspend me if I have an honest conversation about trans ideology.

That would be because your "honest discussion" consists of "I think I know better than doctors how to treat gender dysphoria and I don't care how many people die because of my opinion and my inflated sense of self-importance."

There's no such thing as "trans ideology." The only "ideology" at play is "we should treat people who are sick with what we currently understand to be the best available treatment." Nobody objects to that. Those who object to trans people do so entirely because they're transphobic dongmoogles. They can hide it behind as many layers of "think of the children!" as they want, but 100% of that boils down to the simple fact that they don't like trans people and are afraid of anything that might result in more of them (especially if their kid ends up being "converted"). That fucking kills people. Trying to hide all mention of gender identity or block gender-affirming care does not stop trans people from existing. It just stops them from coming out of the closet and getting the care they need to treat their gender dysphoria, which has horrific consequences for their mental health and is one of the major reasons suicide rates are so astronomically high among trans people (35-50% attempt rate, depending on where they are, with more transphobic regions having a higher rate).

There is no "honest conversation about trans ideology." There's just a bunch of transphobic doogiemuggins thinking their ignorant prejudice deserves a spot at the table with actual science and medicine and evidence-based analyses of what actually helps people and yields the best health outcomes. It doesn't. You're not helping, and neither are any of those other millions of "normal people with kids" that think transphobia constitutes competent parenting because Fox News told them it does. Fuck off and let science do its goddamn job.

If you have concerns that you feel are legitimate because you genuinely don't understand the issue, frame them as such: Asking for clarification on a subject you don't understand. People don't get modded for asking questions about gender dysphoria and transgenderism in a good faith effort to educate themselves. If you're getting modded, it's because you're expressing your opinion not as a genuine effort to learn about the issue, but rather in a way that seeks to invalidate an entire minority that's currently the GOP's punching bag.

Again, I cant weigh in because its simply not allowed.

The pushback is real, and its brewing (pun intended) quickly.

All I can say is that there are plenty of doctors who would disagree.

fwiw, I wouldn't deny that Bud stock has taken a hit but it's still a strong stock. It's off about $6 from it's high earlier in the year, which is significant, but it's not like Bud stock is completely tanking... It'll rebound in time. Not sure why conservatives are so self-righteous about this they must be absolutely starved for anything they can call a "win"

Looking up what AB/Inbev owns, it's a lot of shit with some smaller "local" stuff mixed in like Four Peaks(at least for the Americas)

So, the best thing on any list I see is Hoegaarden. But, losing a tasty 4.5% wheat beer, if I were to boycott the company, isn't really a huge deal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AB_InBev_brands

At my local beer distributor I imagine, after doing a lot of research, it would not be that complicated at all to find great stuff that isn't owned by some sort of big company like AB/InBEV, Miller-Coors(I think this is a company now) and the like.

One of my favorite breweries is Great Lakes, and they are not owned by a big boy.

Most of them in that list are trash though.

IMO, that's why this "boycott" has persisted and AB's sales are hurting weeks later. So many big brands do something, people swear they're boycotting, and then everyone forgets about it in a week. Here, people probably tried a different beer as part of their "boycott", realized what they had been missing all along, and are likely to branch out to new, better products (it isn't hard). With other brands like Chick-Fil-A, their product is one people want so they go right back to buying it.

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This Buds for you!

Yeah, who the fuck even drinks corporate shit anymore when you can just go to any grocery store and pick up something local that's gonna be far better

I wouldn't be so sure. For one thing, most of the people boycotting Bud Light aren't exactly top of their class, so I hesitate to assume that they're savvy enough consumers to research the issue any further than "I just won't drink Bud." Less pejoratively, Bud Light is what people who don't want to drink beer drink when they want to get drunk like they're drinking beer. Anyone drinking it in the first place likely did so because they don't like the taste of beer, so branching out into actual beer isn't going to satisfy their desire for alcoholic water.