Sunday, November 17, 2019

THE GEOMETRY OF THIRST


This is in the current revision of St. Louis Union Station. You can get water or fizzy flavored sugar water here, but mostly it's about Anheuser-Busch products. Or, more recently, Anheuser-Busch-Inbev, the merged Belgian-Brazilian-American beer behemoth that took over one of our largest employers. Never a shortage of customers.

The photo was taken from the Saint Louis Wheel, the new Ferris wheel installed here. Much more about that soon.
             

2 comments:

  1. When I read Anheuser-Busch-Inbev, I feel uneasy. Our local brewery (Labatt), once a powehouse in Ontario, was purchased by A-B-I. The purchases left me feeling that a lot of money, that once would have stayed in town doing good, is now being siphoned off to leave the town and the country. Do you feel A-B-I owning your brewery has been a plus or a minus for St. Louis?

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  2. The bigger the conglomerate, the less likely that it'll do its job well.

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