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Cracker Barrel stock falls 10% amid backlash to brand refresh

Cracker Barrel shares dropped 10% after unveiling a new logo and brand refresh, sparking investor and customer backlash over ...

MAGA Drags Sydney Sweeney Into Cracker Barrel Meltdown

Infuriated MAGA moaners have dragged their new poster girl, Sydney Sweeney, into the conservative rage over Cracker Barrel’s ...

Cracker Barrel and the Americana debate

It’s time to Make Cracker Barrel Great Again.” It’s not only conservatives who are irked. Some liberals, too, lament the ...

Cracker Barrel’s New Logo Has Right-Wingers Posting About Sydney Sweeney, Finding Jesus

To MAGA, the allure of Cracker Barrel was not its boomer nostalgia, but the enticing gaze of “Uncle Herschel” over the ...

Cracker Barrel crackup: How the culture wars are upending corporate branding

For America's big brands, there is little profit in the culture wars: It is simply too easy to lose customers by taking sides ...
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EDITORIAL | Over the Barrel? Restaurant chain stirs up silliest controversy since Sydney Sweeney

But the powers that be at Cracker Barrel managed to pull it off, creating the silliest controversy since Sydney Sweeney's ...

Sydney Sweeney, an American Eagle ad campaign and why it sparked backlash

The 27-year-old "Euphoria" star is featured in a new American Eagle Fall 2025 denim campaign with the tagline "Sydney Sweeney has great jeans." ...

Sydney Sweeney Helped American Eagle Back Into the Spotlight. Can It Stay There?

There's capturing attention and then there's keeping it. Whether American Eagle Outfitters, which not long ago managed the former, can do the latter, is the question facing investors today.