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Stinky The Clown

(67,676 posts)
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 05:06 PM Aug 2020

So its been a little more than a month since GoyaFoodsGuy gave Trump a public hand job.

Today, in our local supermarket the Goya section was bright and clean and chock full of product. Huge inventory of cannellini beans, black beans, garbanzo beans, and all the products we have been buying for years.

Right next to the Goya are similar products from Bush's, Hanover, Progresso, house brand. All were well picked over. Clearly these products were selling. Goya not so much.

I hadn't been to this aisle of the store in a good while so I don't know if this is a pattern or an anomalous snapshot.

As this was a Sunday, I doubt the Goya had just been restocked but the other stuff wasn't. This store part of a chain. Supplier deliveries for almost everything but bread goes to a central warehouse and then sent to the store on a schedule.

This is in a reddish area of a blue county.

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So its been a little more than a month since GoyaFoodsGuy gave Trump a public hand job. (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Aug 2020 OP
I wanted black beans badly, but had to go empty handed. Only Goya! Karadeniz Aug 2020 #1
Trader Joe Has Good Ones Me. Aug 2020 #2
I wanted black eyed peas matt819 Aug 2020 #5
The only time my store runs out of black-eyed peas is right at New Year.. And this is not niyad Aug 2020 #10
Glory has some really good hoppin Johns Horse with no Name Aug 2020 #19
Did not know they were minority owned. GulfCoast66 Aug 2020 #25
Boycotts work Gothmog Aug 2020 #3
We are boycotting Goya here. redwitch Aug 2020 #4
Our Local Grocery Wellstone ruled Aug 2020 #6
My spouse never tells me how to shop. Ilsa Aug 2020 #7
I bought Mexican cajeta from them once. It was mediocrity in a jar. sandensea Aug 2020 #8
Friends don't let friends give money to a Trump cultist dalton99a Aug 2020 #9
Some people have to learn the hard way PatSeg Aug 2020 #11
The merchandise wasn't moving much, as of the last time I went to the grocery store. calimary Aug 2020 #12
And you know... SergeStorms Aug 2020 #18
They would be terrified to go into a store that had an "ethnic" food section DBoon Aug 2020 #24
On sale for 88 cents a can. bottomofthehill Aug 2020 #13
I remember all the rightwankers screaming that they'd support Goya unto their dying day over this. Grokenstein Aug 2020 #14
That guy is hilarious. GulfCoast66 Aug 2020 #26
Our dollars and where we spend them/not spend them are a powerful way to protest. nt iluvtennis Aug 2020 #15
Got that right. And they can't force us to do otherwise, we're expressing our right to free speech SWBTATTReg Aug 2020 #17
Exactly. nt iluvtennis Aug 2020 #22
Here in El Paso they are pretty much off the shelf. Scruffy1 Aug 2020 #16
Fuck goya. warmfeet Aug 2020 #20
I have switched to Progresso canellini beans (white kidney beans) and Whole Foods beans smirkymonkey Aug 2020 #21
Same here in Atlantic City PCIntern Aug 2020 #23
Sadly, the wrong people suffer. Totally Tunsie Aug 2020 #27

matt819

(10,749 posts)
5. I wanted black eyed peas
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 05:58 PM
Aug 2020

Only Goya had them. I did without.

It’s always hard to tell why it’s fully stocked. Just restocked, just neatened up yo bring items forward, or boycott. I go hood they’re feeling the pinch.

niyad

(112,434 posts)
10. The only time my store runs out of black-eyed peas is right at New Year.. And this is not
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 06:52 PM
Aug 2020

the South! Have never seen goya black-eyed peas. But then, my store does not carry a lot of that line anyway. Have no idea what the Hispanic markets here carry, though.

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
25. Did not know they were minority owned.
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 12:15 AM
Aug 2020

Their stuff taste pretty good, but last I checked the sodium content was off the charts.

I have not bought canned beans for years. Dried are so much better and cheaper.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
6. Our Local Grocery
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 06:28 PM
Aug 2020

is similiar. Two months ago,Goya Foods Broker Reps did a reset in the Hispanic Foods Aisle. Almost the whole of the one side is Goya,yesterday it looked like it is turning into a needs to be dusted aisle. Bush,S&W as well as House Brand needed restocking. And that was almost 8 pm.

And yes,the Store Mangers are getting negative feedback about Goya.

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
7. My spouse never tells me how to shop.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 06:30 PM
Aug 2020

For the first time, he insisted that I not buy any Goya products, even if it means doing without. I told him it wouldn't be a problem.

sandensea

(21,529 posts)
8. I bought Mexican cajeta from them once. It was mediocrity in a jar.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 06:50 PM
Aug 2020

That was in '97, I think. Haven't touched anything of theirs since.

PatSeg

(46,794 posts)
11. Some people have to learn the hard way
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 06:59 PM
Aug 2020

Its not a good idea to mix business with politics or religion. You will often pay a huge price. And of course, if a lot of your customers are Latino, you might not want to publicly praise and support a blatant racist, who started his campaign denigrating Mexican immigrants as rapists and murderers. How stupid is this fool?

calimary

(80,693 posts)
12. The merchandise wasn't moving much, as of the last time I went to the grocery store.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 07:02 PM
Aug 2020

But it's been awhile since we were in a grocery store.

SergeStorms

(18,891 posts)
18. And you know...
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 07:57 PM
Aug 2020

Trump's supporters aren't buying any. They'd rather die than eat any ethnic food. Their palates aren't as discerning as their fearless leader's. You just know White House Barbie and her hubby wouldn't eat any spicier than a Hostess Twinkie.

DBoon

(22,286 posts)
24. They would be terrified to go into a store that had an "ethnic" food section
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 11:51 PM
Aug 2020

A trumper would think that MS-13 would kidnap and murder them just for walking into the store.

Grokenstein

(5,707 posts)
14. I remember all the rightwankers screaming that they'd support Goya unto their dying day over this.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 07:19 PM
Aug 2020

Guess they finally actually tried some Goya product and immediately moved on to some other way to "pwn teh libz."

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
26. That guy is hilarious.
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 12:45 AM
Aug 2020

I always watch his stuff. Good enough at parity in some of his post I’m not sure Many trump supporters would know he is making fun of them.

SWBTATTReg

(21,859 posts)
17. Got that right. And they can't force us to do otherwise, we're expressing our right to free speech
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 07:47 PM
Aug 2020

and thus our protest against this buddy/buddy situation w/ GOYA and rump...everything that rump touches, will die or tarnish to the point everybody will be running away from rump for anything...

Scruffy1

(3,239 posts)
16. Here in El Paso they are pretty much off the shelf.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 07:45 PM
Aug 2020

I have most of my groceries delivered but the first time I went shopping at our largest local chain (Food King} they had heaped up all the Goya stuff in barrells in the discount aisle and none on the shelf. don't even see them on instcart. The CEO of Goya inherited the job and the money just like The Orange Pendejo. His grandfather was from Spain, started it and he inherited it. There is a big difference between Spaniards and Mexicans who are my wonderful neighbors.

warmfeet

(3,321 posts)
20. Fuck goya.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 08:02 PM
Aug 2020

Asshole tRump supporters made their choice, I have made mine. Sorry for the redundant statement; asshole tRump supporters.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
21. I have switched to Progresso canellini beans (white kidney beans) and Whole Foods beans
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 08:05 PM
Aug 2020

for all the others. People think WF is expensive, but if you get their 365 brand non-organic items, they can be even cheaper than most mainstream grocery stores. I bought a bunch of cans of beans that were under $1.00 this weekend and they are not as mushy as the Goya beans. Definitely worth it.

If you have Amazon Prime, it's worth shopping WF if they are in your area. I really find their quality better and they are no more, if not less expensive, than the other mainstream grocers that I shop from. I sometimes shop from other stores because they have things that WF doesn't have and I get a lot of my household products from those stores.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
27. Sadly, the wrong people suffer.
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 02:32 AM
Aug 2020

Boycotting Goya certainly gets the message across, especially since it seems to be very effective.

Thus, Goya will be over-inventoried, will slow new production, and cut hours for their workers if not completely laying them off. Mr. Goya President, on the other hand, will happily Direct Deposit his pay, continue to collect his stock options, and pack his family into the Escalade for a nice vacation somewhere.

Fair, it ain't.

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