This is the way.

I don't think anyone that drank Bud Light cared about taste in the first place, so I doubt it will matter 6 weeks from now.

So production crew gets laid off and CEO gets millions in bonuses.

Born on date. When I was in college we got a metric shit ton of Anheuser Busch beer that came in from Louisiana during Katrina. It was $5 for a 20 pack of bottles. I can still remember the back end of my 4Runner sagging low to the ground as we drove off from the grocery store. Fun times were had.

Don't really follow the beer industry but found this article interesting about the distributors.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/why_the_bud_light_disaster_could_cripple_the_entire_companys_many_brands_for_years.html

The damage done by the casual embrace of a transsexual by Bud Light came at an extremely bad time for not just the brand, but for all the brands sold in the US by the parent company,  Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI). The reason is rooted in a critical aspect of commerce that mostly escapes public notice: physical distribution.
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Writing in American Greatness,  John Conlin reveals how ABI has been restructuring its beer distribution, no doubt in the name of increased efficiency and market power, and thereby made itself very vulnerable to a slowdown in sales.

   When InBev was analyzing the Anheuser-Busch acquisition, it determined substantial profits could be gained by consolidating the AB wholesaler network.

   In reality, InBev thought it could erase the AB network and take over distribution entirely. The multinationals soon learned just how politically powerful U.S. beer distributors really are, and came to accept this likely would never happen.

   But the financial allure of consolidating the AB network remained strong. They started a program where distributors were chosen to be a “preferred” distributor. These folks were given the opportunity to make acquisitions and act as consolidators. These were also the folks most likely to go along with ABI desires.

  In ABI's mind, these were the best of the best distributors. Over the past five years or so, a lot of the country saw these consolidators making significant acquisitions of other ABI distributors. And these deals don’t come cheap.

   Owning a beer distributor is as close to printing money as is possible, so it took a substantial amount to convince an ABI distributor to leave the industry. The vast majority of these were family businesses, many of them multigenerational. Selling any family business is no small deal. So that created an even bigger hurdle to convince these folks to leave.

   Thus, they sold but at astronomical values. The preferred ABI distributors stepped to the plate and paid these amounts because they trusted ABI would continue to be good stewards of the brands and historically there were few investments better than an ABI distributorship. So, they paid many years of cash flow. And remember, the distributor is the only one of this entire crew who actually has skin in the game.

   In a lot of the country, the ABI distribution network went from smaller, generally debt-free family businesses to much larger wholesalers with either a far bigger distribution footprint and/or they began operating in multiple markets—all sitting on a mountain of debt. In total, I’d guess the debt number is well over a billion, likely billions.

News today said that AB was giving a free case of Bud Light to every distributor employee as a way to make up for the recent problems
I bet thats how they get to move outdated stock and they probably get to write it off at the same time

They'll donate it to the Ukrainian Relief Fund and write 26 billion off their taxes.

Dear God.

Please let them go bankrupt.

Amen.

It doesn't.

Costco has pallets of 36 packs down to $12.99 locally… only a handful of cases were off of one pallet .

I know the owner of the primary distributor in south central TX.  This is a true statement.  Third generation family business.  They owned the distributorship as well as a hand full of liquor stores.  Siegels and Total Wine wanted in their area, they sold their stores without too much hand wringing.  But when it came to the distribution company, that was the goose that laid the golden egg.

I wouldn't even take it if they gave me money to.

I’ve thrown away more AB products in one wholesaler more than most breweries sell. AB always had the highest standards and did not allow out of code products in the market

The only redeeming thing about my receipt trip to California was the fact that they have PBR in 30 packs.

I wish the CEO would publicly slap the shit out of that horse faced marketing executive. Not because I care about ABI, I would just love to see that smug, liberal Karen be on the receiving end of an old school bitch slap.

So it will all taste like covrona.?

Funny that I had a 6 pack of Bud Light bottles in my garage fridge for almost 2 years before I finally drank them right before this trans bullshit went down.

It was still OK poured into a glass ice cold.

I grew up so poor only the rich kids partoed with  bud.  Natty light for us poors.

Budweiser already pulled a marketing switcheroo back when they changed from "Beechwood Aged" to "Born-On Date".

And the libtard who caused this will get a million dollar severance and move on to another executive job and ruin it from within all over again. Just like the libtards moving from blue states to red states and bringing the same voting habits with them.

I saw a friend tonight who owns a restaurant. The everyday special for the last 3 weeks is $1 bud light drafts. They are selling about 2 of them a week. A keg will last for years at this pace.

They can give it away to the migrant waves & hope it engenders them to become American trannies

Did any snot come out of the can?  

I know.....

She is so fugly...

Seems the ugly ones are the most angry at the world and the most woke ones.

And even after seeing them get fucked,the loonies will continue with the agenda..who,s next??lol

 
 Shot out of a circus cannon.  Your Fired

The local liquor store stopped having it delivered. I can't post a pic but I have one with nothing but a skyscraper of unsold AB products inside.

Why don't they get their target fag audience to swallow it up?

I've read a lot of quotes from their execs that basically says their workers are hurting from this and it's all the customers' fault.

They keep digging the hole deeper.

Bud Tells Wholesalers to Give Bud Light to Employees Before Expiration Date

Sure did work for that contaminated batch of Alamo beer.