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re: If this ends up killing the Bud Light brand, what is a comparable precedent?
Posted on 5/2/23 at 12:12 pm to Ag Zwin
Posted on 5/2/23 at 12:12 pm to Ag Zwin
Henry's Hamburger quietly started using horse meat around 1965. Customers took note of the sudden absence of the "100% pure beef" claim in their newspaper ads. Henry's went from being bigger than McDonald's to having just a single location in Benton Harbor, MI.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 12:18 pm to teke184
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Henry killed Mr Ed?
Of course.
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A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
And no one can talk to a horse of course
That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 12:19 pm to teke184
And then Mr. Ed killed Henry's.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 12:35 pm to Porpus
Reminds me of the A&W story
A&W was the fastest growing restaurant in the industry and came out with a 1/3 pound burger to compete with McDonald's new Quarter Pounder.
It was a colossal failure. Market research said that the general public thought the 1/3 pound burger was smaller than McDonald's 1/4 pounder.
It tanked the brand.
A&W was the fastest growing restaurant in the industry and came out with a 1/3 pound burger to compete with McDonald's new Quarter Pounder.
It was a colossal failure. Market research said that the general public thought the 1/3 pound burger was smaller than McDonald's 1/4 pounder.
It tanked the brand.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 12:37 pm to Porpus
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Henry's Hamburger quietly started using horse meat around 1965. Customers took note of the sudden absence of the "100% pure beef" claim in their newspaper ads. Henry's went from being bigger than McDonald's to having just a single location in Benton Harbor, MI.
Didn't Jack in the Box have a situation where they were found (or maybe just accused) of using Kangaroo meat?
This was years ago before they were in Louisiana.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 12:41 pm to Ag Zwin
AB InBev is doing just fine. I know a guy that works at the distribution near Baton Rouge and he said they are selling more of the other brands because people don't realize they own those too, and supposedly they are more profitable.
Conservatives are designed to be exploited, cucked, and controlled. You have a majority in Louisiana leg and still grovel at the black caucus when they make demands.
Conservatives are designed to be exploited, cucked, and controlled. You have a majority in Louisiana leg and still grovel at the black caucus when they make demands.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 12:42 pm to teke184
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BL’s problem is that it is a shite product propped up by marketing and entropy (brand loyalty).
I wouldn't go so far to say it is a "shite product". It fills a role just fine. Inexpensive lager beer that can appeal to a wide subsect of the population. While it may be "beneath" hardcore beer drinkers, most American's prefer to get something like that because they know what they are getting (consistency) and don't care enough about beer to pay 25%, 30%, 40% more for a brand in a goofy can they have never heard of.
A better description is that it's nondescript. BL has never been my favorite beer. But if I were at a tailgate party, the beach, a pool party, etc and that was all that was available I was fine with drinking it. The problem is the same could be said about Coors, Miller, etc. Now, like you said, BL has given people a reason to NOT buy their beer. And when you have nothing except entropy to distinguish it, that is a bad place to be in the market.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 12:42 pm to Ag Zwin
Gillette. But I don’t think it crashed the brand because IMO, their product was still pretty good.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 12:42 pm to Y.A. Tittle
Jack in the Box had an E-coli issue a couple of decades ago.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 12:42 pm to anc
Never underestimate the stupidity of the average person.
That being said, if I am eating A&W I am there for a gigantic hot dog and not a burger.
That being said, if I am eating A&W I am there for a gigantic hot dog and not a burger.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 12:43 pm to RogerTheShrubber
That was in the early 90s in California IIRC.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 12:45 pm to Alt26
My point is that the taste is relatively similar, or unfavorable, compared to a bunch of other brands including cheap shite like the Beast (Milwaukee’s Best).
Not everyone is going to get a Belgian micro-brew raspberry ale but someone who wants a cheap mass market beer could get one that tastes better or is cheaper but comparable in quality without trying hard.
Not everyone is going to get a Belgian micro-brew raspberry ale but someone who wants a cheap mass market beer could get one that tastes better or is cheaper but comparable in quality without trying hard.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 12:46 pm to BeepNode
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AB InBev is doing just fine. I know a guy that works at the distribution near Baton Rouge and he said they are selling more of the other brands because people don't realize they own those too, and supposedly they are more profitable.
Conservatives are designed to be exploited, cucked, and controlled. You have a majority in Louisiana leg and still grovel at the black caucus when they make demands.
BL is the top selling beer in the US...by a large margin. So while I am certain there are many who are boycotting BL by switching to something like Ultra (both AB beers), not all are. There is a not insignificant amount of people switching to Coors and Miller. Those who prefer light beer aren't going to suddenly start drinking other styles of beer because they don't want BL. They are going to opt for other light beers...many are competitors of BL
No one is thinking AB is going to go bankrupt over this. But potentially having a sizeable chunk of your top seller lost is not something AB is going to casually laugh off.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 12:54 pm to Ag Zwin
My first thought was Jimmy Kimmel. After Trump was elected, he basically came out and said Republicans shouldn't watch his show. Well they took him up on that and his ratings have been terrible since. And the time he had gained a lot of the Letterman/Leno crowd when they retired.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 12:54 pm to Ag Zwin
how is this not just cancel culture from the right?
I say this who thinks bud light is piss in a can and don't care at all if it dies.
I say this who thinks bud light is piss in a can and don't care at all if it dies.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 12:58 pm to Tigers0918
Most people aren’t pissed that BL isn’t espousing right wing propaganda… most people are pissed that they just wanted to enjoy a fricking beer without politics / agendas being involved.
Same reason people have raged against ESPN for turning everything about sports into race and politics, such as the whining the other day that, because black QBs are too successful, the league will put rule changes into place to help out white bots.
Same reason people have raged against ESPN for turning everything about sports into race and politics, such as the whining the other day that, because black QBs are too successful, the league will put rule changes into place to help out white bots.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 1:04 pm to Ag Zwin
The only thing I can think of is New Coke. But, they saved their butts by immediately releasing Classic Coke and then just scrapping New Coke. There is nothing Bud lite can do. Fox News, on the other hand, can apologize, put Carlson back on the air at a greatly expanded salary, invite him to sit on the board of directors and perhaps save their butts like CocaCola.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 1:06 pm to Tigers0918
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how is this not just cancel culture from the right?
I say this who thinks bud light is piss in a can and don't care at all if it dies.
I see y'all aren't gonna stop trying, but you're not shaming a bunch of good ole boys into going back with this goofy tactic.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 1:23 pm to ELVIS U
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. But, they saved their butts by immediately releasing Classic Coke and then just scrapping New Coke.
And if they forgot the recipe for Classic Coke in the US, they still had pure sugarcane Mexican Coke to fall back on If you haven't put peanuts in your Mexican Coke you're doing it wrong.
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