Yeti cuts ties with NRA

[KS63]

They had nice products, but at exorbitant prices that I wasn’t willing to pay. I’ll buy some RTIC products now at reduced prices compared to Yeti.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.breit...oundation/amp/

[eddiememphis]

https://www.yeti.com/contact-us.html

Let 'em know caving into pressure from the far left can hurt their bottom line.

[BushMasterBoy]

Their store location AKA HQ....looks like an alien head with a vagina brain. I have an $800 Yeti ice chest I love. Why would they do this to me?

[Gman]

Apparently they don't understand their customer base. I'm hoping this is 'educational'.

[JohnnyEgo]

Their store location AKA HQ....looks like an alien head with a vagina brain. I have an $800 Yeti ice chest I love. Why would they do this to me?

You could load it up with guns and NRA hats and magazines, make sure the logo is showing when you take a picture, and then plaster it all over their social media accounts. Sort of like the conservative equivalent of a Maplethorp photo.

[T. B. Turner]

I wonder if they will pull their product line from all the Cabelas stores?

[TEAMRICO]

Well I was gonna get the Walmart version anyways. No way could I afford $300 for cooler to hold $30 worth of food.

[lex137]

I can’t believe they did that, glad I bought an RTIC cooler instead. How stupid, hope there company goes under!!!

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

They had nice products, but at exorbitant prices that I wasn’t willing to pay. I’ll buy some RTIC products now at reduced prices compared to Yeti.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.breit...oundation/amp/

I did notice RTIC was capitalizing on 2A today on social media and had wondered about that.
However, owning some of both, the Yeti bottles > > RTIC. My RTIC leaks like a seive.
In terms of roto coolers, can't say I notice a ton of difference yet.

[crays]

Anyone who thinks this will hurt yeti's bottom line in any significant fashion is pissing into the wind.

They have a HUGE customer base with the libtard/sjw/boutique gear crowd. Anyone work around any junior engineers, HR, EHS management-hopeful, or other overtly liberal persons?
What do they have in their hand or on their desk EVERY day? Usually not the same one every day, either... Right? They will not lose that, and they will likely gain a few points within that base.
Do conservative, 2A friendly people own/use value their product? Sure. We like shit that actually works, and if it works, we use it. We will pay a premium for premium performance. We will also seek out similarly performing products for a cheaper price because we value performance over branding hype. We are not without our brand conscious, glamour seekers though. You all know at least one or two. Hell, you might be one. Or at least a fanboi about something.

Plenty of over tatooed, affliction shirt and sparkly pocket jeans and trucker hat (or flat brim) wearing, lifted truck driving "2A supporters" love the product as well. They aren't going to give it up. They may crow the loudest about "screw yeti" , but they want to feel important and GET LAID. They are COMPELLED to have the kool krap. They will, largely, not change their consumption habits until it is favorable to their perception of others perception of them.

Will some leftie leaning folks go ahead and spend the money for a yeti now, that wouldn't have before? Probably more than is reasonable, but not enough to spike the company's earnings. And probably not enough volume of higher ticket items to be noticed. We're talking coffee cups, lunch bags and tote coolers, more than family or expedition size hard side coolers.

If you are a fan of yeti products because they have performed well for you, are you going to shitcan them and go spend several hundreds, or even thousands of dollars to replace them with duplicate items because that company is 2A friendly today? Probably not. If it ain't broken, why replace it, right? Sure, we'll scrutinize new purchases to "vote with our wallets" when we need a new or replacement item, but we're not hurting anyone by not buying new products we weren't going to anyway.

There is no shame (okay, maybe some) in continuing to use a product that works, that you already own. If your own personal conviction does not allow that, fine. Each to his own.

All that said, I support the abstinence from our side purchasing any further products from the aforementioned company. There are viable, and sometimes cheaper alternatives. I myself own a half dozen or so RTIC bottles is various sizes, as well as several coffee cups (I have a personal aversion to referring to them as tumblers).
I own a single large yeti coffee cup, which was a gift/award from work. The lid just failed on that, and it is going to cost more for a replacement lid (with the slider) than any of my RTIC cups cost me new. I guess that one did just become a tumbler...

YMMV