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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo 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.
Karadeniz
(22,270 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)if you have one
matt819
(10,749 posts)Only Goya had them. I did without.
Its always hard to tell why its fully stocked. Just restocked, just neatened up yo bring items forward, or boycott. I go hood theyre feeling the pinch.
niyad
(112,434 posts)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.
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)And they are a minority owned business. Win win.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)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.
Gothmog
(143,999 posts)redwitch
(14,933 posts)And yup, their shelves are nice and full.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)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)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)That was in '97, I think. Haven't touched anything of theirs since.
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)PatSeg
(46,794 posts)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)But it's been awhile since we were in a grocery store.
SergeStorms
(18,891 posts)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)A trumper would think that MS-13 would kidnap and murder them just for walking into the store.
bottomofthehill
(8,261 posts)Still not moving well
Grokenstein
(5,707 posts)Guess they finally actually tried some Goya product and immediately moved on to some other way to "pwn teh libz."
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)I always watch his stuff. Good enough at parity in some of his post Im not sure Many trump supporters would know he is making fun of them.
iluvtennis
(19,757 posts)SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)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...
iluvtennis
(19,757 posts)Scruffy1
(3,239 posts)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)Asshole tRump supporters made their choice, I have made mine. Sorry for the redundant statement; asshole tRump supporters.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)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.
PCIntern
(25,346 posts)Goya shelves chock full. Others, not so much.
https://imgur.com/a/kzPDboE
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)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.