Business Bud Light's Popularity in Bars Has Collapsed - Bars have also stopped ordering tranny fluid

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BY JAMES BICKERTON ON 7/19/23 AT 12:00 PM EDT

Bud Light is now the fourth most popular beer sold in bars and restaurants, according to a company that makes software for logging orders.

The Anheuser-Busch brand was previously the No 1 beer sold in the 1,100 "high-volume venues" that use Union's platform. But in the second quarter of 2023, from April to June, Bud Light was outsold by Miller Lite, Michelob Ultra and Coors Light.

Union's data, revealed in its latest OnPrem Insights report, also showed that Bud Light's sales fell furthest in South Carolina, North Carolina and Texas. California recorded the smallest impact.

Conservative activists have been boycotting Bud Light since the brand partnered with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney in March. Sales have tumbled, with the beer selling 31.3 percent less in the week to June 24 than in the same period the previous year.

Anheuser-Busch's global CEO, Michel Doukeris, said in May that the decline in Bud Light sales represented about 1 percent of the company's global sales volume.

Union reported a 34 percent year-on-year drop in Bud Light's sales share, from the second quarter of 2022 to the second quarter of 2023.

This took it from the No 1 spot to fourth place at Union's bars and restaurants. The top 10 for beers is completed by Dos Equis, Corona, Guinness, Modelo, Stella Artois and Yuengling.

In the first week of the boycott, Bud Light sales at Union venues fell by 2.6 percentage points, from a dollar market share of 11.3 percent to 8.73 percent. After falls in April and May, sales "stopped tumbling" in June, stabilizing at around 6.25 percent, the software company said.

Newsweek has reached out to Anheuser-Busch by email for comment.

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Cans of Bud Light in a cooler on the concourse at Oriole Park at Camden Yards during the Baltimore Orioles and Minnesota Twins game in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 30. Conservatives launched a boycott of the brand in March. ROB CARR/GETTY

Clayton Dukes, general manager of the Blind Tiger Pub in Charleston, South Carolina, which uses Union software, said Bud Light sales became "almost non-existent" when the boycott began.

He added: "At first I thought this might blow over pretty quick, but I think it is pretty apparent that this isn't going anywhere for a long time."

Union CEO Alex Broeker told Newsweek: "While many people are focused on how the Bud Light controversy has impacted retail sales, it was interesting to dig into our data, from actual orders at bars and restaurants, to understand how customers are changing their consumption behavior across the country.

"Miller Lite is having its day in the sun now, but the immediate shift in the category highlights to us that there is room for further competition."

In a video posted on Instagram in June, Mulvaney accused Bud Light of failing to support her during the backlash.

The influencer said: "I took a brand deal with a company I loved and I posted a sponsored video to my page. And it must have been a slow news week because the way that this ad got blown up, you would have thought I was on a billboard or on a TV commercial, or something major, but no, it was just an Instagram video."

She added: "I was waiting for the brand to reach out to me but they never did and for months now I've been scared to leave my house...for a company to hire a trans person and then not publicly stand by them is worse in my opinion than not hiring a trans person at all."

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Who goes to a bar for beer you find in the store? You always got to get the weird shit like blueberry pie beer.
 
Someone needs to come up with a term to describe consumers willingness to switch to a substitute when a brand/product does something politically controversial. Like price elasticity but for social outrage.
 
likeacrackado said:
Someone needs to come up with a term to describe consumers willingness to switch to a substitute when a brand/product does something politically controversial. Like price elasticity but for social outrage.
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Here are some potential terms for that:
Consumer censure
Brandemnation (Portmanteau of brand and condemnation)
Product politicization
Brand blasting
Product partisanship
 
WonderWino said:
On that note, I wonder how long it'll be before biden holds some kind of televised press conference for some anti gay incident and drinks a few bud lights live on the air to demonstrate his solidarity with the gay and trans community. they'd never shake the stigma of being the gay and trans beer after that and biden would never live it down

and since the boycott had the least impact in california (gee theres a surprise) I suggest they should change the name to bug light and make it the official beer of lgbt bughives
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Considering all the drugs they're pumping into that shambling corpse, I think a beer might kill him.

WelfareNiggerQueen said:
Who goes to a bar for beer you find in the store? You always got to get the weird shit like blueberry pie beer.
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I take it you've never been to a boomer dive bar. All they serve is shitty domestics. Motherfuckers paying $40 for 12 coors on ice.

likeacrackado said:
Someone needs to come up with a term to describe consumers willingness to switch to a substitute when a brand/product does something politically controversial. Like price elasticity but for social outrage.
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I've seen economic terrororism thrown around a few times, think they're going with that.
 
Captain Manning said:
Well, no shit. If they mentioned that, even more moderate people might realize Bud Light is retarded, and that huge part of this shitshow has absolutely nothing to do with "transphobia."
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People don't like troons and don't want to be associated with them. That's the main force behind this. This was the perfect storm. Miller Lite did a similar "fuck our customers" thing a couple months ago and it didn't catch on, becuase it had nothing to do with troons.
 
I think the biggest takeaway is that even in California of all places sales have dropped.
 
Harvey Danger said:
The troon posted publicly, and the owner probably responded by email (which was found publicly posted on a business website).

For a journalist to get a 3rd opinion, they'd have to know someone who was boycotting and be able to reach them by email. That's a huge hurdle for a modern "journalist".
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No journalist in the current year is doing anything that requires xer to put on pants
Don't Tread on Me said:
Or you could go to a bar and ask people why they're not ordering Bud Light.
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Journalists are too good for bars.
WelfareNiggerQueen said:
Who goes to a bar for beer you find in the store? You always got to get the weird shit like blueberry pie beer.
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After a long shift a guy wants a simple drink that doesn't preach to them.
 
Given the inevitable doubling down bud light will do, I suggest as a followup they remake this scene as a commercial, replacing the werewolf with a troon, arnie with redneck trump supporter drinking bud light and rhinegold beer with bud light, then have the troon decapitate him with an axe instead of tearing his head off, while maniacally screaming bud light doesn't want your business anyway bigot!

I'm sure that will totally boost sales

 
AnotherPleb said:
No journalist in the current year is doing anything that requires xer to put on pants

Journalists are too good for bars.

After a long shift a guy wants a simple drink that doesn't preach to them.
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"This beer is brewed with the finest care from cherry flavored vape juice, transgender surgery leftovers, and ultra concentrated soylent extract, with just a hint of cockroach milk. Show your support for the minor attracted community and crack open a cold one today!"
 
Don't Tread on Me said:
I notice how they interviewed the Troon who caused the backlash. And a business owner who received the backlash. But not a thought was spared to interview someone participating in the boycott. Funny, that.
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I actually hope that they stick to this, as it just punctuates how much they hate the boycotters for being successful and spurs them to continue as a result.


The more that the journos only engage with their supporters, the more they push everyone else to just ignoring their nonsense without consideration.
 
My local corner store still can't give the shit away, even the hardcore alcoholics won't drink it.
 
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Why do these retards keep calling it a boycott? Boycotts are organized, they have clear demands attached that when met will stop the boycott. This has none of those things, this is a complete collapse of the brand as disgusted consumers find something else to swill. This is an organic migration away from a brand that bit the hand that feeds it.

Even if Bud light started printing the total tranny death copy pasta on one side of the cans, you will never be a real woman copy pasta on the other, and changed the brand motto to "cope and seethe" they would still be called "tranny fluid" and no one would start drinking it again.
 
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