Bud Light is in big trouble as sales continue to plummet, according to data released by Bump Williams Consulting.
As Slay News has reported, decent-minded Americans everywhere have been boycotting Anheuser-Busch products after Bud Light tried to pour “woke” ideology down their throats.
Bud Light sales were down 21.4% compared to the same time last year.
The week before, sales were down 17%.
“Larger packages of Bud Light are not being purchased — the 30-pack suitcases, the 20 packs, the 18 packs, the 12 packs — they’re all being impacted,” Williams said.
“It’s going to be very very hard to reverse the decline.”
“I think it runs the risk of losing that No. 1 position at the end of calendar year 2023 to Modelo Especial,” Williams said.
Bud Light is the bestselling beer in the US.
Last year, sales were around $4.8 billion.
The No. 2 brand, Modelo Especial, sold $3.75 billion while Michelob Ultra generated $3.3 billion in sales.
“Her big miss was I don’t think she understood who the core Bud Light shopper was,” Williams said of Alissa Heinerscheid, the marketing executive behind the self-destructive campaign featuring transgender Dylan Mulvaney.
As Slay News reported, just before the campaign dropped, Heinerscheid trashed Bud Light’s customer base and vowed to turn the brand “woke.”
“When she came out with her comments, they were deemed as being derogatory, insulting, and juvenile,” Williams said.
“And the Bud Light drinkers said ‘Enough of that’.”
Former Anheuser-Busch president of sales and distribution, Anson Frericks, said:
“Anheuser-Busch has forgotten who it is accountable to.
“Its accountable to its shareholders.
“We’re a month into this controversy and the reason we’re still into this and still talking about it is Anheuser has not been clear about what Bud Light stands for.
“Traditionally it’s been an apolitical brand that did not get into politics.”
The latest numbers show Bud Light sales continue to drop after the company announced its controversial partnership with trans-activist and social media star Dylan Mulvaney on April 1.https://t.co/E9DzPhzWu8
— 7News DC (@7NewsDC) May 2, 2023
The figures include sales at grocery stores, convenience stores, and liquor stores.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 2, 2023
Retail consumer purchases are the cornerstone of the Beer business model. This is where customer loyalty is EVERYTHING. Bud Light betrayed its customers.
Now beer aisles look like this: pic.twitter.com/IU99yY71jt
According to The New York Post:
A staggering sales hit for Bud Light is worsening with each passing week following an ill-fated marketing tie-up with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney — with the latest weekly figures showing a staggering 21% drop.
During the week ended April 22 — the most recent industry data available — Bud Light sales plunged 21% — accelerating from their 17% slide a week earlier and an initial weekly drop of 6% when the controversy kicked off during the first week of April, according to Nielsen IQ and Bump Williams Consulting.
Meanwhile beer volumes — the number of cases sold, whether in packs of 12, 18, or 24 cans — dropped an even steeper 26% last week, versus a 21% drop a week earlier and an initial drop of 11%, according to the data.
(Article by David Hawkins republished from SlayNews.com)
