Anheuser-Busch Begs for Forgiveness From
Retailers by Giving Out 'Free Beer'
Townhall,
by
Sarah Arnold
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
5/3/2023 10:33:55 PM
Anheuser-Busch is begging for forgiveness from wholesale employees in yet another attempt to do damage control as consumers continue to boycott Bud Light after partnering with a transgender influencer. To combat a market value decrease of nearly $5 billion, Anheuser-Busch has resorted to giving out cases of free beer to every employee to "make amends" with wholesale distributors who suffered from the controversial partnership with transgender Dylan Mulvaney.
Anheuser-Busch cries in its beer.
39 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 5/3/2023 10:51:49 PM (No. 1462251)
Oh, I see. Get 'em drunk to soften them up so they'll lose their inhibitions and stop resisting. Some people have become wise to the ploys.
23 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Highlander 5/3/2023 10:52:19 PM (No. 1462252)
. Fuggedaboutit. Ship’s already left the dock. Ain’t no going back. Not ever!
43 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
mobyclik 5/3/2023 10:53:12 PM (No. 1462255)
Three words Anheuser-Busch: GO TO HELL!
35 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 5/3/2023 11:00:25 PM (No. 1462259)
I love it.
When do you guys announce that you fired EVERYONE in your marketing department?
56 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
MissMann 5/3/2023 11:01:12 PM (No. 1462260)
They may be handing out beer, but I don't hear any "begging for forgiveness," or an admission that a beer company probably should have stayed out of the culture wars and just stuck to making beer. Have all the employees involved in the decision been fired yet?
Yeah, they haven't learned anything, yet.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
stevendm 5/3/2023 11:13:24 PM (No. 1462264)
How does being "cancelled" feel?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 5/3/2023 11:13:49 PM (No. 1462265)
Just change the name to Transheuser-Bush and move on. Woke isn't an identity, its a disease.
65 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 5/3/2023 11:28:58 PM (No. 1462266)
Bud Light in the loafers.
41 people like this.
The average heterosexual man will never again voluntarily touch Budweiser.
It’s over, AB.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bamboozle 5/3/2023 11:30:42 PM (No. 1462269)
They may find that free Bud is still too expensive
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Grateful 5/3/2023 11:34:25 PM (No. 1462271)
The whole advertising fiasco using a tranny influencer (what the hell does an influencer influence?) and the resulting loss of customers shows that Bud Light drinkers don't like real beer. They just like to pee a lot!
21 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 5/3/2023 11:43:24 PM (No. 1462278)
Notice that they don't do the same with their actual customers who buy their swill.
Free beer to employees of distributors does nothing. They're probably getting all the free beer that can't carry already
Instead of pandering to what they consider the rubes in flyover country with rah-rah commercials, the smart thing for AB to do is make a commercial with the CEO saying something like. "With all the recent events, we realize that we crossed the line from making and selling beer into politics. We realize now that politics has no place in the beer world. We were wrong, we apologize, and it won't happen again."
And then stick to that.
But it will never happen.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 5/4/2023 12:14:30 AM (No. 1462288)
Sorry. You wanted Dylan, you’re stuck with him.
40 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
daisey 5/4/2023 12:41:03 AM (No. 1462290)
Begging is never a good look. It’s not going to help.
23 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/4/2023 12:41:40 AM (No. 1462291)
Daddy, how many ff's in Anheuser-Busch? Son, there ain't no effin Anheuser-Busch.
18 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
DustDevil31 5/4/2023 1:31:55 AM (No. 1462308)
AMF.
8 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
smokincol 5/4/2023 1:47:42 AM (No. 1462310)
a little lesson for those of us who don't think "we" don't have the clout when we need it, I'd say bringing down the biggest beer producer in the world is a very impressive achievement so
remember that in November, 2024 because
it will never be too late to teach the demcommies a lesson they will never forget give old busty pelosi a slap in the face that might send her into an alternate universe
24 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 5/4/2023 2:48:36 AM (No. 1462313)
No apology has been issued.
No one fired, just put on vacation.
They don't actually mean any of it, are not sorry for what they did, only unhappy at lost revenue.
Coors and Miller Lite apparently getting a big bump in sales.
To hell with the Belgians.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Rinktum 5/4/2023 3:44:55 AM (No. 1462315)
I may be wrong but I believe the Bud Light boycott has more driving it than just the Mulvaney issue. I think people are so ticked off by so many things this administration is trying to push down the throats of the American people that they are willing to do anything to show their anger. People are fed up with the insanity that is being driven by the policies of the left whether it be demanding we celebrate transgenders, the invasion on our southern border, financial ruin that is bearing down on every family, small business, and individual at break neck speed, the unbelievable corruption of Biden and his crime family, the fecklessness of Republicans to effectively launch a strategy to expose the FBI, CIA, and the rest of the lawless alphabet agencies, rampant crime with few to no prosecutions, a two tiered system of justice, rogue judges ruling according to their political beliefs, funding a war we had no business involved in, and allowing democrats to steal our elections to just name a few reasons Americans are angry. This boycott is a clear indication the American people are not going to take it anymore. We are a peaceful people but there is coming a point where there is going to be a reckoning with the left. I just can’t see us going quietly into the good night. The elites in Washington would be wise to understand that they are not dealing with a British, French or Canadian mindset. We are Americans.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
PismoPat 5/4/2023 3:45:34 AM (No. 1462316)
Did they just skip the test marketing for these ads? Or, did they limit it to San Francisco?
16 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 5/4/2023 5:12:39 AM (No. 1462320)
AB products sucked before the tranny travesty, why would I drink it now? Feel the burn AB.
11 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
RWPollock 5/4/2023 5:26:34 AM (No. 1462323)
Not buying AB products until they apologize and admit it was also due to bettering theirCEI score and not because they really care about the transgender community. Real women of this country are the ones most deserving of an apology. How dare they use a man that portrays every female stereotype women have been fitting against for decades. DM makes June Cleaver look like a militant feminist!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/4/2023 5:45:08 AM (No. 1462328)
Response - "Not even if you paid me to drink that swill!"
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Stolen from No. 20 "I may be wrong but I believe the Bud Light boycott has more driving it than just the Mulvaney issue." Maybe, just maybe, these light beer drinker types have found out just how bad Bud Lite tastes as they try other light beers. Think about this for awhile and light beer from Budweiser is in BIG trouble.
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Rush, in the early days had a sound bite “Yo Time is UP!” Yep!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mjwall69 5/4/2023 7:18:32 AM (No. 1462365)
They keep saying that it's because of the "transgender influencer". Not so much, I don't think. The marketing exec, Sally I-forget-her-name, said they were trying to distance themselves from their core customer base because they're deplorable for one reason or another. She was quite dismissive and insulting if I remember correctly. Really think that AB should try to distance themselves from that and apologize for it more than anything, and give that self-righteous exec some real, lasting punishment. That's where the change needs to come from. Transgenders are mentally disturbed individuals that need help, these enablers are the problem more than the mentally ill. Take away the incentive to be deviant and deviance should abate.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Turninggrey 5/4/2023 7:24:15 AM (No. 1462368)
It should be free. It's practically water. Dylin should be the face of this gay 'beer", and now the percentage of people buying it reflects the percentage of gays.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
chumley 5/4/2023 7:24:57 AM (No. 1462369)
To me, all domestic beers taste pretty much the same. They are ok but not my first choice.
But, there are some things I would not even accept for free. Among them are electric cars, illegal drugs, a night with AOC, and Budweiser beer.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
padiva 5/4/2023 7:31:08 AM (No. 1462373)
Now, who is getting the free beer? Your employees? Yeah, that's like preaching to the choir.
AB free beer is just like grape kool-aid.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
smak90 5/4/2023 7:40:12 AM (No. 1462379)
The only reason they are giving it away is because it's reached it's shelf life limit and they have no way to get rid of it so their giving it away. Soon they'll have to discount it on the shelf and mark it down below skunk beer.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/4/2023 7:50:15 AM (No. 1462382)
Imagine their shock when the free beer is refused. I wouldn't drink that sewer water if they paid me.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Hazymac 5/4/2023 8:15:24 AM (No. 1462386)
How does a corporation come back from woke? (Another name for woke is stupid.) Possibly, it doesn't come back at all. Anheuser Busch really screwed the pooch with its Dylan Mulvaney associations. The customers who are gone, are gone. There are so many beers to choose from.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/4/2023 8:47:59 AM (No. 1462412)
FTA - "The company also plans to boost marketing spending and ramp up ad production to earn back the massive sales lost."
AB, go ahead and spend on marketing to your heart's content. But it is all over for you. It will not be possible to un-woke yourselves. Corporate suicide comes with a price. The best you can hope for now is to soon declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy and hope an opportunistic buyer comes forward to rescue the company and pull the Bud brands out of the ashes. Go woke, go broke.
4 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/4/2023 8:59:00 AM (No. 1462425)
There is a saying in Persian/Urdu. What goes by drops doesn't come back with a tankful. In this case by the barrel..
2 people like this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/4/2023 9:01:08 AM (No. 1462430)
They may as well give it out free what else can they do with it. No one is buying it.
2 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
janjan 5/4/2023 9:05:38 AM (No. 1462435)
Anheuser-Busch either needs to profusely apologize for their marketing idiocy or just shut up and lay low. What they’re doing now is just condescending.
5 people like this.
Reply 38 - Posted by:
red1066 5/4/2023 9:15:57 AM (No. 1462450)
I don't drink any Anheuser Busch products, so they can give it all away. I don't want it.
3 people like this.
Reply 39 - Posted by:
hershey 5/4/2023 9:21:16 AM (No. 1462460)
Ohhh, too bad...stuff it...lot of better beers available...
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
broken01 5/4/2023 9:45:44 AM (No. 1462479)
Anheuser Busch is now crying about the completely stupid move they made with Bud Light. So much so it gives new meaning to the Hank Williams Junior song "There's a Tear in My Beer."
2 people like this.
Reply 41 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 5/4/2023 9:50:59 AM (No. 1462485)
They're not magnanimous, it's reaching its sell by date.
4 people like this.
Reply 42 - Posted by:
mean Gene 5/4/2023 10:37:06 AM (No. 1462514)
Still no actual apology.
2 people like this.
Reply 43 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/4/2023 10:48:57 AM (No. 1462522)
There are pallets of B Lite in stores here in FL. Yesterday at a pharmacy, I saw 24 cans for $14. A You Tube video shows 36 cans for $14.99 at a discount club.
Beer does have a shelf life.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Dannee 5/4/2023 11:29:58 AM (No. 1462547)
Number 20 has highlighted many of the problems that need to be fixed in America.
The fixes need to be done soon or we are going to the same place as A-B beers after they're used.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 5/4/2023 12:42:05 PM (No. 1462611)
A-B meant to do what they did unhitch the Clydesdales and hitch up to Dylan and the pervert crowd nothing will bring them back now. Maybe if Tucker Carlson was put on a beer can, they might gain some sales again. It's over for the 'King of Beers'.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
DVC 5/4/2023 12:44:07 PM (No. 1462615)
I have read no apology.
I have heard of a few managers on vacation.
I have heard of NO firings at all.
Scroom.
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