#arthur s. demoulas and basically none of the workers or public supported the direction he wanted to take the stores into
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Arthur T. Demoulas is like a New England folk hero
#he's the ceo of market basket#i'm saying this bc he's a well-known figure and yet i feel like he doesn't live in contemporary times#idk i keep seeing articles about him since it's the 10-year anniversary of the market basket strike summer#apparently he gave current employees bonuses that's nice#for what it's worth i don't know much about him or his policies and have never worked at market basket#although everyone in new hampshire and massachusetts has known several people who at least at one point have worked at mahky bakky#such is the ubiquity of that chain of grocery stores#text post#if you never heard of the 2014 market basket strike it was bc they switched ceos from artie t. to his cousin#arthur s. demoulas and basically none of the workers or public supported the direction he wanted to take the stores into#to quote my mom at the time ''he wants to make it more like shaw's'' (deep slander)#and like it was quite stunning how not a single person shopped at market basket that whole summer#no one would own up to it if they even stepped in. you risked hisses from the local community#i know one person who talked about going in once in the fall and they said it was a complete ghost town#let alone do i know if they had ANY employees bc scabbing for them... could not have been a good look#but then once they switched back to arthur t. as ceo. it was like. it was like the instant burst of energy#that we thought we'd all get at one point 'when the pandemic ends'#it was like all at once energized and back to normal#fascinating story
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