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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Maga really doesn’t like freedom of speech, does it?

No one is owed you any advertisement on your platform. Bunch of snowflakes.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

So invest??

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Okay? They've been shit-tier donuts as far as I can remember

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

What a bunch of easily triggered snowflakes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't normally buy donuts for the office because the lines are long, but now... 😊🍩😋

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Dunkin still has terrible donuts though.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago

What is this weird as fuck idea these people have that they're entitled to a company's advertising money?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Another f-ing right-wing weirdo, lovely. I haven't been in a DD since I was 10 and we don't have them here on the left coast AFAIK but if there was any kind of boycott by these freaks, hell I'd mail order a half dozen boxes (if they do MO) and share at the local food pantry. DD donuts are awesome, loved them as a New England kid.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

No, they're not. The donut quality has gone to the toilet, both in terms of workmanship (they come in frozen and par-baked, I think) and materials (they taste plasticine). The coffee tastes like dishwater.

Service is still quick and not terrible, and they're everwhere, and reliable. But by no means are they awesome.

(I still get a boston cream donut and medium regular after I've been away for a while. It's just a sign of home for me, but that's maybe twice a year at best.)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're a disappointment these days. Few varities, often sold out. Thry really want to move towards the crappy food Starbucks sells and figure out $7 coffee.

I'd rather go to a local chain which has better variety and manages to have stock at 2PM.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Also one open into the evening. Sometimes I want a coffee when I'm going somewhere after like 3 PM, but the only place open is Starbucks.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

they still sell donuts? i thought they stopped

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Say it ain't so! I know DD formally changed its business name and nobody cared much (most probably ignored it and kept calling them DD) but damn if they cut off the New England donut supply the pitchforks would have come out!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Well if they follow the Elon Musk model, can't Dunkin Donuts sue MAGA? LOL

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Good. Shorter lines for me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

"LET THE MARKET DECIDE!"

"Yeah, the market hates you!"

"Wait, not like that!"

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 month ago (4 children)

MAGA influencer, catturd2

That really says all there is to say.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I want to be an influencer too.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah yes, a boycott which will impact the company much like all the previous ones which were uh, wait no, they didn't do shit did they?

Yawn.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The Bud Light one was actually impactful for several months:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Light_boycott

"On June 3, Brayden King, a professor of management and organizations, gave an interview to CNBC calling the Bud Light boycott an outlier in the right's attack on "woke capitalism" because it is the first one to actually harm the company's sales. King studied 133 political boycotts from 1990 to 2005 and none of them accounted for more than a 1% drop in sales for a company; the Bud Light boycott had resulted in an estimated 18% drop in all AB InBev sales."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Interesting. I had assumed it went like the other 133 that source mentions.

Wonder if there's just an extremely over-sized overlap between conservatives who were going to be offended about and willing to boycott and people who drink cheap beer that led to that statistically unusual outcome.

Also maybe cheap beer is cheap beer and there's limited enough brand loyalty that other types of products don't?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I don't think there was any real strong attachment to it. It was a recognizable go-to cheap beer. But nowadays there's dozens of cheap light beers, and seltzers, and mixed drinks in a can, and ciders, and I can go on.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cheap beer and Bud being #1 for 20 years made the fall more dramatic.

If it were some no-name beer, nobody would have cared.

I do find it hilarious that by abandoning Bud this "America First" crowd let Modelo into the top spot. LOL.

https://www.gearpatrol.com/drinks/modelo-bestselling-beer/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Modelo, owned by... AB InBev.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Kind of...

"Although AB InBev did have to sell the U.S. distribution rights to Modelo to rival Constellation Brands as the result of an anti-trust suit in 2013, one could still make the argument that Anheuser-Busch still technically retains its top ranking since it still owns the Modelo brand."

They just don't have US distribution.

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