Boston peeps? When was Market Basket brutalized?
Wow, I go away on vacation, and when I return, the best grocery store in town is *gone*, replaced by an idiotic shadow of its former self.
I didn't recognize any employees. I didn't even see any employees between the ages of 25 and 50. I can only assume they are no longer paying a living wage.
There's barely any meat, or produce, or store brands left. Don't the new owners realize that these items (and the prices of them) are why we shopped here?
Where are folks shopping now? Because a good business has been brutalized, and fuck if I will give any more money to the savages who did that.
[Edited to add:
1) Looks like a lot of the lose I encountered was instigated by the workers protesting the firing of the previous CEO.
2)an editorial from the Boston Globe that I largely agree with:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2014/07/18/market-basket-loyal-workers-are-its-best-asset/Ic3WIlRKtL4zMEnRXpkUCM/story.html
3)a history of the power struggle within the family (but with no mention of the importance of an store with inexpensive fresh food in these communities)
http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/07/14/the-saga-demoulas-market-basket/S1D7gi92dqfJYZzr9FIBCJ/story.html
4) the plan of workers to rally for their ousted CEO and the company's threat to fire them for attending the rally
http://www.wbur.org/2014/07/18/market-basket-workers-support-demoulas
5) apparently a movement to boycott the store?
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/07/19/lawmakers-urge-boycott-market-basket-supermarkets/8aJ4xtnyKc4yiiSmad9NTI/story.html
6) I should mention that I definitely have a dog in this fight. Our household income has gone down drastically in the past 2 years, with no sign of it increasing again during my lifetime. Meanwhile, our food bill, our transportation bill, our heating bill, and our water bill have all gone up, and we're about to add a tuition bill on top of that. We need a cheap source of good food, and it has been worth our while to drive 30 minutes each way, past the Whole Foods and the less upscale grocery stores, every two weeks to buy milk and store brand staples and vegetables.
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I didn't recognize any employees. I didn't even see any employees between the ages of 25 and 50. I can only assume they are no longer paying a living wage.
There's barely any meat, or produce, or store brands left. Don't the new owners realize that these items (and the prices of them) are why we shopped here?
Where are folks shopping now? Because a good business has been brutalized, and fuck if I will give any more money to the savages who did that.
[Edited to add:
1) Looks like a lot of the lose I encountered was instigated by the workers protesting the firing of the previous CEO.
2)an editorial from the Boston Globe that I largely agree with:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2014/07/18/market-basket-loyal-workers-are-its-best-asset/Ic3WIlRKtL4zMEnRXpkUCM/story.html
3)a history of the power struggle within the family (but with no mention of the importance of an store with inexpensive fresh food in these communities)
http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/07/14/the-saga-demoulas-market-basket/S1D7gi92dqfJYZzr9FIBCJ/story.html
4) the plan of workers to rally for their ousted CEO and the company's threat to fire them for attending the rally
http://www.wbur.org/2014/07/18/market-basket-workers-support-demoulas
5) apparently a movement to boycott the store?
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/07/19/lawmakers-urge-boycott-market-basket-supermarkets/8aJ4xtnyKc4yiiSmad9NTI/story.html
6) I should mention that I definitely have a dog in this fight. Our household income has gone down drastically in the past 2 years, with no sign of it increasing again during my lifetime. Meanwhile, our food bill, our transportation bill, our heating bill, and our water bill have all gone up, and we're about to add a tuition bill on top of that. We need a cheap source of good food, and it has been worth our while to drive 30 minutes each way, past the Whole Foods and the less upscale grocery stores, every two weeks to buy milk and store brand staples and vegetables.
]
Crossposted here (
comments).