Wegmans supermarket sells out of Trump wine after proposed boycott - Polidicks

[quote]A call to boycott an East Coast grocery store because it carries Trump wine has now backfired. Over the weekend, 300 members of the Prince William County chapter of the National Organization for Women called on locals to boycott Wegmans Food Markets unless the Rochester, N.Y.-based company agreed to remove Trump Winery wines at its 10 stores in Virginia. The Trump vineyard is located in Charlottesville, Va. "Certainly if Wegmans is carrying Trump wines, I personally will not shop there," Terry O’Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, told the Washington Post. O'Neill's call for a boycott doubles down on a digital campaign that sprung up just after the election calling on shoppers to #StopTrumpWine. "Let's demonstrate through economic action that the residents and business owners of Charlottesville will not stand for the hatred espoused by Eric Trump and those like him," a statement on the group's website reads. Despite a wave of support for many retail stores which have dropped Trump-branded products (Nordstrom announced it was dropping Ivanka Trump’s line of shoes and clothing amid a 32 percent decline in sales), the president's supporters in Virginia fought back against the proposed boycott by heading to Wegmans and buying up as much wine as they could get their hands on. Many turned to social media to proclaim their right to shop-- and applauded the store for not caving to anti-Trump sentiments. ive of the wine varieties have sold out at two Richmond-area Wegmans stores, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Jo Natale, Wegmans' vice president of media relations, told Fox News via email that as a business, their role is to “offer choices” to customers but their decision to sell the wine is not a political endorsement. “For various reasons, we are sometimes asked to stop selling a product. Our response is always the same, no matter the product: How a product performs is our single measure for what stays on our shelves and what goes,” Natale said. She says that when sales of a product “drop precipitously,” they stop selling it. Natale added that the Charlottesville store had approximately 100 remaining bottles of the Trump Winery Meritage and 20 bottles of the Cru as of 4 p.m. Friday. But all other Virginia Wegmans stores are now out of stock of Trump wines. It may be three or four weeks before the wine is available again, Wegmans says. Currently, the grocer carries 237 Virginia wines from 58 wineries. Among those are five varieties from the Trump Winery, including Trump Blanc de Blanc and Trump Winery Chardonnay. LADY GAGA GETTING INTO THE BEVERAGE BUSINESS WITH 'GRIGIO GIRLS' WINES According to the Washington Post, Wegmans has been selling wines from the Trump vineyard (formally the Kluge Estate Winery) since 2008, years before it was associated with the Trump family. [/quote] [url]http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/02/20/wegmans-supermarket-sells-out-trump-wine-after-proposed-boycott.html[/url]

[QUOTE]LADY GAGA GETTING INTO THE BEVERAGE BUSINESS WITH 'GRIGIO GIRLS' WINES [/QUOTE] Where can I buy this

Now I want some Trump wine, maybe some trump steaks too while I stay at a trump hotel while I read the Art of the Deal by Donald J Trump in a country being lead by Trump while I wear a Trump hat.

Wegmans is great. Top tier grocery store. If you stop shopping somewhere over stuff like this, it is imperative you rethink yourself a bit. [editline]22nd February 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=ultra_bright;51861244]Now I want some Trump wine, maybe some trump steaks too while I stay at a trump hotel while I read the Art of the Deal by Donald J Trump in a country being lead by Trump while I wear a Trump hat.[/QUOTE] All for them selling maga gear if it keeps out whiny people and cuts down on the long ass lines. :v:

Relevant [QUOTE=elixwhitetail;51817430]I'm going to start referring to these kind of incidents as Sheep Tax. I expect there to be plenty more.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=evilweazel;51861258]Wegmans is great. Top tier grocery store. If you stop shopping somewhere over stuff like this, it is imperative you rethink yourself a bit.[/QUOTE] If you have the money or don't compare prices ever.

Always found it incredibly stupid when people attach their brand name to wine when they obviously have absolutely nothing to actually do with it. The wine is probably exactly the same as any other typical 10$ bottle.

[QUOTE=Bertie;51861306]Always found it incredibly stupid when people attach their brand name to wine when they obviously have absolutely nothing to actually do with it. The wine is probably exactly the same as any other typical 10$ bottle.[/QUOTE] This is how Trump made his "fortune". Alongside real estate; which is borderline impossible to fuck up as everybody needs a place to live, he sticks his name on absolutely everything he buys/ poorly chooses to invest in. With no real regards to the quality, and absolutely zero brand focus. But it means his name is everywhere, and idiots will assume he actually knows what he's doing because "how else is he everywhere??!?". If you inherited as much money as he did, it's not exactly hard to scattergun your name onto fucking anything you see. I have zero doubt that this wine is fucking nasty junk with a high markup. You'll probably find the stuff from cheap stores like Aldi and Lidl outclasses it. Expensive wines are almost always never worth their price, the sweet spot is the £10-£15 area usually. [editline]23rd February 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=evilweazel;51861258]If you stop shopping somewhere over stuff like this, it is imperative you rethink yourself a bit.[/QUOTE] Seems like a bog standard boycott to me. If you don't like a certain supplier that a retailer is choosing to work with for any reason (ethical, moral, you name it), not shopping there isn't too absurd an idea.

[QUOTE=hexpunK;51861537]This is how Trump made his "fortune". Alongside real estate; which is borderline impossible to fuck up as everybody needs a place to live, he sticks his name on absolutely everything he buys/ poorly chooses to invest in. With no real regards to the quality, and absolutely zero brand focus. But it means his name is everywhere, and idiots will assume he actually knows what he's doing because "how else is he everywhere??!?". If you inherited as much money as he did, it's not exactly hard to scattergun your name onto fucking anything you see. I have zero doubt that this wine is fucking nasty junk with a high markup. You'll probably find the stuff from cheap stores like Aldi and Lidl outclasses it. Expensive wines are almost always never worth their price, the sweet spot is the £10-£15 area usually. [editline]23rd February 2017[/editline] Seems like a bog standard boycott to me. If you don't like a certain supplier that a retailer is choosing to work with for any reason (ethical, moral, you name it), not shopping there isn't too absurd an idea.[/QUOTE] $13 bottles of wine for life

Boycotts rarely seem to do anything other than attract a brief media circus and make little more than a tiny ding in profits, or even increase them through the Streisand effect. It's not a company making products in slave-labour conditions, it's just a supermarket selling a single product owned by one of the President's (former?) companies.

[QUOTE=Levelog;51861599]$13 bottles of wine for life[/QUOTE] You can literally get a $5 bottle of wine from 7-11 better than Trump brand wine.

Isn't there a greedy rich super villain trope about putting your Name™ on everything?

I work for the company. So glad we don't give in to a few cry babies.

Wegmans is overrated, but if overpriced mediocre wine with Trump's name on it makes them a profit, all power to them.

[QUOTE=ultra_bright;51861244]Now I want some Trump wine, maybe some trump steaks too while I stay at a trump hotel while I read the Art of the Deal by Donald J Trump in a country being lead by Trump while I wear a Trump hat.[/QUOTE] Drink cheap wine that's been priced at a higher price point, check Eat cheap steaks sold at a crazy high price point, check Read a book written by Tony Schwartz that claims to be written by Trump, check Wear a hat made by poor chinese factory workers, check Being an orange cheeto personified? Priceless

[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;51862127]Isn't there a greedy rich super villain trope about putting your Name™ on everything?[/QUOTE] Where do you think the trope came from? Art imitates life.

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;51862261]Drink cheap wine that's been priced at a higher price point, check Eat cheap steaks sold at a crazy high price point, check Read a book written by Tony Schwartz that claims to be written by Trump, check Wear a hat made by poor chinese factory workers, check Being an orange cheeto personified? Priceless[/QUOTE] but the hats were made in the USA iirc

[QUOTE=Johnny Joe;51862335]but the hats were made in the USA iirc[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-inauguration-hats-idUSKBN1542YL"]About that...[/URL]

It's nice you've started posting stupid irrelevant shit like this that's a result of his idiot fanbase than, you know, leading the country. How about you start posting stuff that's actually a result of [B]his own fucking policies [/B]and we can for once have a discussion in one of your awful useless threads that isn't fucking "people wanted bad thing, but trump fans are golden paragons of justice and went out and did the good" With the past few weeks of your posts I'm starting to get the idea that you support Trump more for the "liberal tears" since you know if you started talking about his policies you'll get reamed.

'Trump wine' sounds so unappetising, even forgetting who the wine is named after. Like it just seems that a wine shouldn't have a one-syllable name. Eg a 'Ferrucio Mazzopardi Chardonnay' sounds sophisticated and exquisite as fuck, but 'Trump Chardonnay' just sounds dumb. May as well call if 'John Chardonnay' or 'Ass Chardonnay'.

[QUOTE=snookypookums;51862591][URL="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-inauguration-hats-idUSKBN1542YL"]About that...[/URL][/QUOTE] that's weird, I just checked both of mine and they both say made in USA by califrame, this company: [url]http://www.caliheadwear.com/[/url], they actually have their factory close by where I live

[QUOTE=Johnny Joe;51862844]that's weird, I just checked both of mine and they both say made in USA by califrame, this company: [url]http://www.caliheadwear.com/[/url], they actually have their factory close by where I live[/QUOTE] That [I]is[/I] interesting, actually - how did you get your hat - was it ordered online or was it being handed out at an event/rally? It's possible that when it comes to the merch we might both be right - no doubt as the demand for the novelty of owning them grew, it's possible US suppliers may not have been able to fulfill demand, hence the "Made in China/Vietnam/Bangladesh" hats. Wouldn't be surprised if some of the shirts/hoodies were made in India/Pakistan either (common source for cotton fabric clothes in the US) - saw one of the MAGA shirts selling on the roadside here in Mumbai, asked the seller where it came from. Turns out he bought some of the rejected ones (Print errors, stitching errors) wholesale from a trader in a small textile city in the south. Found it rather humorous and somewhat ironic.

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;51862261]Drink cheap wine that's been priced at a higher price point, check Eat cheap steaks sold at a crazy high price point, check Read a book written by Tony Schwartz that claims to be written by Trump, check Wear a hat made by poor chinese factory workers, check Being an orange cheeto personified? Priceless[/QUOTE] trump needs china plates to go with the wine N steak for a trump dinner package.

[QUOTE=snookypookums;51862863]That [I]is[/I] interesting, actually - how did you get your hat - was it ordered online or was it being handed out at an event/rally? [/QUOTE] I got mine directly from the actual site, my folks bought a few too and same company, califrame, made them in the US. there were probably a number made overseas no question, but I think the califrame were the main run one since the majority of the ones I've seen online and irl seem to be made by califrame exclusively. [QUOTE=Ithon;51862871]trump needs [B][I]american[/I][/B] plates to go with the wine N steak for a trump dinner package.[/QUOTE] ftfy

[QUOTE=Johnny Joe;51862879]I got mine directly from the actual site, my folks bought a few too and same company, califrame, made them in the US. there were probably a number made overseas no question, but I think the califrame were the main run one since the majority of the ones I've seen online and irl seem to be made by califrame exclusively. ftfy[/QUOTE] That's pretty cool - I might pick one up for the novelty value and if they are, in fact, made in the US, then I don't mind supporting the initiative by buying a hat. Thanks for the clarifications!

[QUOTE=snookypookums;51862887]That's pretty cool - I might pick one up for the novelty value and if they are, in fact, made in the US, then I don't mind supporting the initiative by buying a hat. Thanks for the clarifications![/QUOTE] No problem, glad I could help.

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;51862261]Drink cheap wine that's been priced at a higher price point, check Eat cheap steaks sold at a crazy high price point, check Read a book written by Tony Schwartz that claims to be written by Trump, check Wear a hat made by poor chinese factory workers, check Being an orange cheeto personified? Priceless[/QUOTE] There are some things that Trumps money can't buy. For everything else there's the US taxpayer.

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;51862949]There are some things that Trumps money can't buy. For everything else there's the US taxpayer.[/QUOTE] And Russian oil money

I see absolutely nothing wrong with people buying products owned by the president [I]because [/I] he's the president

[QUOTE=Raidyr;51862156]Wegmans is overrated, but if overpriced mediocre wine with Trump's name on it makes them a profit, all power to them.[/QUOTE] Yeah no sorry. You're entitled to an opinion but chances are you've never been to one