Calls to can Goya Foods grow after CEO repeats Trump's election lies

[DonViejo]

Martin Pengelly
@MartinPengelly
Mon 1 Mar 2021 09.03 EST

Calls for a boycott of Goya beans, chickpeas and other foodstuffs have grown louder after chief executive Robert Unanue made a series of false claims about the presidential election in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Florida on Sunday.

Unanue has previously courted controversy with praise for Donald Trump, which last year prompted Ivanka Trump to pose, infamously, with a can of Goya beans.

Onstage in Orlando, Unanue called Donald Trump “the real, legitimate and still actual president of the United States”.

He also falsely claimed the presidential election that Trump lost conclusively to Joe Biden and the state contest in Georgia, which Biden won narrowly, were “not legitimate”, and claimed mail-in ballots were fraudulent.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/01/goya-ceo-robert-unanue-cpac-donald-trump-boycott

[hlthe2b]

1. I went to their website to leave a comment, but it is clear they have their online email set up

to disallow any comments other than a specific food product (appear to require the specific UPC code).

I'll use whatever non-brand name product I can find now over Goya.

[tinrobot]

2. Don't complain just to Goya, complain to grocery stores that sell Goya.

If they can't find distribution, they're gone.

[obamanut2012]

4. I tweeted them publicly and sent them a twitter PM separately

You may want to try that route.

[hlthe2b]

6. I'm not registered on twitter. I'll look for an alternate direct email address...

[theneworiginal]

11. I sent one to corporate today. There is a link for consumers that still works. Here...

https://www.goya.com/en/contact

Maybe they should have a link for ex-customers.

[hlthe2b]

14. Thanks!

[thucythucy]

3. Was he dumb enough to mention any of the voting machine companies by name?

If so, we might have another candidate for a nice juicy law suit.

In the end this all might end up bankrupting or at least substantially draining the swamp of far right funding that's done so much to harm this country.

Well, I can hope, anyway.

[AKwannabe]

5. Went to Pike Place Market Saturday

There is a Mexican grocery in Post Alley. I walked in and did a round but walked right back out. 8 out of 10 products on the shelf AND in the frig freezer sections were Goya brands. Hell! I didn’t know they had so much to choose from but they do and I thought I was in a Goya store not a mom and pop Mexican grocery.

Blech!

[MurrayDelph]

10. Small world

My neighbors own the cheesecake shop in Pike Place Market.

[BeyondGeography]

7. So done with Goya

The irony is one of the alternatives is Bush’s Best.

[exboyfil]

8. Seems to be the same position as My Pillow

The guy and his family own the company. So long as 50% + 1 share is willing to go along with him being CEO, he will be CEO. Their words about silencing him are pretty hollow.

Goya has incredible market penetration and brand loyalty (such that most companies would kill for). It seems they are willing to trade some of that for a Republican one party state run by fascists. It must bring those warm feelings of Francisco Franco back I guess. I wonder when the chips are down that they might not find the Anglo fascists a bit less receptive to them and their customers.

[Naio]

9. Robert Unanue Pendejo. I stop buying Goya long time ago .

[Totally Tunsie]

12. I was in the market yesterday and happened to notice

that the Goya products were completely stocked on the shelves, while other brands had visible space available. Looks like people aren't buying what the CEO has to say or what he has to sell.

[exboyfil]

13. Or the Goya rack jobber is really on the ball?