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Ah yes, a boycott which will impact the company much like all the previous ones which were uh, wait no, they didn’t do shit did they?
Yawn.
The Bud Light one was actually impactful for several months:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Light_boycott
“On June 3, Brayden King, a professor of management and organizations, gave an interview to CNBC calling the Bud Light boycott an outlier in the right’s attack on “woke capitalism” because it is the first one to actually harm the company’s sales. King studied 133 political boycotts from 1990 to 2005 and none of them accounted for more than a 1% drop in sales for a company; the Bud Light boycott had resulted in an estimated 18% drop in all AB InBev sales.”
Bunch of rednecks and angry fundies boycott a higher cost department store/coffee shop… meh. The same people boycott $2/gal alcoholic piss water? Real shit
The thing is Budweiser caved pretty much immediately, which also led to allies boycotting! Dumbasses did the worst possible thing, fold to a decentralized demand and piss off everyone while not even ending the boycott from the first group because there was no one to tell them they won!
Interesting. I had assumed it went like the other 133 that source mentions.
Wonder if there’s just an extremely over-sized overlap between conservatives who were going to be offended about and willing to boycott and people who drink cheap beer that led to that statistically unusual outcome.
Also maybe cheap beer is cheap beer and there’s limited enough brand loyalty that other types of products don’t?
Cheap beer and Bud being #1 for 20 years made the fall more dramatic.
If it were some no-name beer, nobody would have cared.
I do find it hilarious that by abandoning Bud this “America First” crowd let Modelo into the top spot. LOL.
Modelo, owned by… AB InBev.
Kind of…
“Although AB InBev did have to sell the U.S. distribution rights to Modelo to rival Constellation Brands as the result of an anti-trust suit in 2013, one could still make the argument that Anheuser-Busch still technically retains its top ranking since it still owns the Modelo brand.”
They just don’t have US distribution.
I don’t think there was any real strong attachment to it. It was a recognizable go-to cheap beer. But nowadays there’s dozens of cheap light beers, and seltzers, and mixed drinks in a can, and ciders, and I can go on.
It was the fact that Bud Light openly advertised using a trans person. It was an image that could be flaunted and would rally even moderate republicans.
An executive respectfully writing a response detailing why they would not want their brand associated with a platform that had extreme right wing views is much harder to rally around…
Fundamentally it’s because there is no convenient image to rally behind… they would have to read and think to be outraged.
When they figure out how to use AI to generate picture book propaganda for their followers, watch out. (Wait, is that why they are obsessed with meme images…)
“LET THE MARKET DECIDE!”
“Yeah, the market hates you!”
“Wait, not like that!”
MAGA influencer, catturd2
That really says all there is to say.
Isn’t that the guy who’s always chasing Elon Musk’s dick around?
No idea.
But it’s a grown-ass man who thinks calling himself catturd is the height of comedy.
Agreed, that’s just childish.
It’s a woman. Both other than that, you’re both right.
As far as I care to research, it’s a guy:
My bad, I was thinking of Libs of Tiktok.
So many hate mongers. It’s easy to lose track.
Very true. And really, they’re all essentially cat turds.
I feel attacked.
Tinfoil hat time, maybe they’re a false flag plant by the FDA to fight the obesity epidemic.
It’s clearly not working.
I want to be an influencer too.
What the shit is Rumble anyway?
sounds like the name of the right wing ‘grindr’ app
Rumble/Locals is a video sharing platform, like YouTube, and you don’t have any of the ridiculous no-no words & censorship of YouTube to abide by (under threat of age-gating, deletion, demonetization). You can say words like: suicide, depression, covid, vaccine, Hitler, porn, pedophile, etc etc etc without people getting all weird.
You can stream copyrighted content & watch a movie together, as long as there’s some banter & you’re not straight ripping movies. It’s fun, it’s like watching with friends.
Each creator can enforce THEIR OWN censorship & values on their community as they see fit, the only thing(s) Rumble/Locals does not want to see are: porn, child porn, and idk probably like extreme gore.
Fascist YouTube.
Good. Shorter lines for me.
Found the New Englander.
Hey, they could be Midwestern too. We have the double-Ds too!
Yeah, but the eastern US is just a different world. Starbucks are literally hard to find while Dunkin is everywhere!
Well if they follow the Elon Musk model, can’t Dunkin Donuts sue MAGA? LOL
Another f-ing right-wing weirdo, lovely. I haven’t been in a DD since I was 10 and we don’t have them here on the left coast AFAIK but if there was any kind of boycott by these freaks, hell I’d mail order a half dozen boxes (if they do MO) and share at the local food pantry. DD donuts are awesome, loved them as a New England kid.
Unfortunately their donuts have gone way, way down in quality over the last couple decades.
DD donuts are awesome
Noting with high sugar levels is awesome because diabetes is terrible, and is causing people to lose limbs.
They’re a disappointment these days. Few varities, often sold out. Thry really want to move towards the crappy food Starbucks sells and figure out $7 coffee.
I’d rather go to a local chain which has better variety and manages to have stock at 2PM.
Also one open into the evening. Sometimes I want a coffee when I’m going somewhere after like 3 PM, but the only place open is Starbucks.
No, they’re not. The donut quality has gone to the toilet, both in terms of workmanship (they come in frozen and par-baked, I think) and materials (they taste plasticine). The coffee tastes like dishwater.
Service is still quick and not terrible, and they’re everwhere, and reliable. But by no means are they awesome.
(I still get a boston cream donut and medium regular after I’ve been away for a while. It’s just a sign of home for me, but that’s maybe twice a year at best.)
Agreed on this summary - however - DD’s cold brew is significantly better than the majority of chain spots. Hell, it’s even better/more consistent than a lot of small local shops in my area as well.
That’s probably true. I think I’ve only had theirs once. Most places, it tastes sour for some reason.
Personally I just make cold brew at home because it’s so easy.
Where I’m at, the service is slow and terrible in addition to the other points you’ve made. DD went downhill and then off a cliff.
they still sell donuts? i thought they stopped
Say it ain’t so! I know DD formally changed its business name and nobody cared much (most probably ignored it and kept calling them DD) but damn if they cut off the New England donut supply the pitchforks would have come out!
What is this weird as fuck idea these people have that they’re entitled to a company’s advertising money?
I don’t normally buy donuts for the office because the lines are long, but now… 😊🍩😋
Dunkin still has terrible donuts though.
Okay? They’ve been shit-tier donuts as far as I can remember
What a bunch of easily triggered snowflakes
