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You can decide this move with two answers: Who are their customers, and what happened last year with Bud Light.
Just so y'all are aware they moved to Yuengling beer as the choice of racists and bigoted people. So please don't buy it unless you really really don't give a fuck about CEOs mocking boycotts.
Dang, now we can't make jokes about Anakin killing all the Yuenglings
Phew. I was afraid they'd move to Sam Adams or something since they fetishize the Founders so much, and I'd have to give up something I actually like.
I used to like Yurngling before 2016 or whenever when their politics came out :(
Twas a decently cheap beer you could get on tap, but no longer for me
Seriously? Yuengling, is that Chinese beer?
Lmao, people asking that gets me every time. Wild name that I don't know why they named it that, but it's actually America's oldest brewery, it's on the east coast.
It's named after the founder, who was a German immigrant named Jungling.
Immigrant names were often spelled how they sound by barely literate immigration agents.
So Jungling is pronounced Yewng-ling and became Yuengling.
The current CEO (Dick Yuengling Jr) is a nepo baby piece of shit Trump lover.
Correct. He's a giant piece of shit and his sales have only gone up since Trump was elected.
And for those wondering, it's just a very slightly better version of Bud and only then if it's really fresh. After two weeks on the shelf they're equally shitty.
I was in Texas for my first time ever and had my first ever Yeungling (it isn't available where I live). I didn't know it was now the choice for the bigots. But I do know: it's really not a great beer.
Neither is Bud (/Light), but at least that doesn't taste like a malty homebrew.
They could have just as easily dropped the DEI efforts and then not made a giant fucking Press Release about it.
Then they wouldn’t be pandering to the bigots.
It's so easy to shop somewhere else, might as well.
In many rural areas it's not though. Tractor Supply might be the only feed store for miles, and I don't mean go 5 miles to the next town. I mean it's over a hundred to the next closest feed store, which happens to be another tractor supply.
Sounds like a good time to break their monopoly
Cool. Who plans to do that? Do you have the ability to open multiple stores in such areas?
Maybe they do, why so negative? Do you think breaking some hypothetical monopoly would be a bad thing or something? Is your last name Supply by chance?
Maybe they do, but they haven't done it, have they? I know I can't do it. Can you? It's not 'negative' to know that it hasn't been done and no one is doing it. It's just a fact.
Is that your situation? I live pretty rural, but there's a Walmart, Lowe's, or home depot pretty much the same distance as tractor supply, and that's probably the situation for most of the US. I also buy online. Mom and pop feed stores are all over the place.
For me, it's real easy to go somewhere else.
Thinking about this more, I just don't think it's true. I can't find a spot on Google maps where tractor supply is the only store for miles. In America, you can drive to many shitty corporations to buy stuff, no matter where in America you are.
It's even easier to not be a racist.
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