Anheuser-Busch sold to InBev: Good deal or bad?
Early Sunday evening, news broke that Anheuser-Busch Cos. directors accepted a $70 per share takeover offer from Belgium’s InBev.
The new company will be known as Anheuser-Busch InBev. Will this be a good deal or a bad deal for St. Louis region?


I know this isn’t a popular thing to say right now, but here goes… I take all these people saying they won’t buy A-B products anymore with a very large grain of salt (in fact, it’s called a salt lick). So many people say this type of stuff, but when it comes down to sticking by their actual words, they cave. How many times have I heard union workers tell people not to shop at Wal-Mart because the company is anti-union? Now, remember the grocery store chain lockout of the unions in St. Louis a few years back? The grocery section of the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Eureka was packed over the course of the lockout! Of course, none of those Wal-Mart grocery shoppers were union workers! Right! So, why didn’t these union workers have the gumption to stick by their words and drive over to Illinois for groceries? Because most people don’t have the backbone to stick by their words! Never buy A-B products again? Don’t make me laugh!