# How effective have I been in my boycott?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-effective-have-i-been-in-my-boycott/983712>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 7, 2023, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-effective-have-i-been-in-my-boycott/983712 "2023-05-07T21:53:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-effective-have-i-been-in-my-boycott/983712/41 "2023-05-15T11:36:27Z")

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If one wanted to boycott all A-B InBev products, not just Bud Light, one would need to carry a book the size of an old-fashioned foreign-phrase dictionary just to list every brand & flavor they control.

It’s pretty insane how consolidated the beer industry is. 10,000 brands and 3 corps own 9,800 of them representing 99.99% of the marketplace. (all made up numbers, but probably not crazy-wrong)

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**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-effective-have-i-been-in-my-boycott/983712/42 "2023-05-15T11:48:12Z")

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> [@slicedalone](#):
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> Have I brought them to their knees yet?

No, but I think the real point is that you are making a personal statement by standing on principle.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-effective-have-i-been-in-my-boycott/983712/43 "2023-05-15T11:59:25Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> It’s pretty insane how consolidated the beer industry is. 10,000 brands and 3 corps own 9,800 of them representing 99.99% of the marketplace. (all made up numbers, but probably not crazy-wrong)

According to the Brewers Association: “Overall U.S. beer volume sales were down 3% in 2022, while craft brewer volume sales remained on par with 2021, raising small and independent brewers’ share of the U.S. beer market by volume to 13.2%.”

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-effective-have-i-been-in-my-boycott/983712/44 "2023-05-15T12:01:03Z")

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I ordered a bud light a week or two ago, probably my first in a decade or more.

Pretty sure that makes me the reason I-B hasn’t been delisted from the NYSE altogether.

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**Author:** ![jjakucyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@jjakucyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjakucyk)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-effective-have-i-been-in-my-boycott/983712/45 "2023-05-15T13:20:46Z")

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I think “it just feels good” is needlessly defeatist and it undersells the effect of a personal boycott. Yes it’s small, but the snowflake never thinks it’s responsible for the avalanche. Also, when there’s substitute goods/services, you’re supporting those other companies while not supporting the ones you disagree with, doubling the effect. Again, it may be small, but it’s not nothing.

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