Kind'a related to my first diary, I had not heard about this before.
The CEO of the company that owns the Market Basket grocery chain, Arthur T Demoulas, was committed to keeping prices low and wages high. As a result, both workers and customers are very loyal.
How loyal?
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At least that's the impression you get when asking employees of Market Basket - the chain of more than 70 grocery stores Mr Demoulas ran up until June - why they have been on strike for the past two weeks.
These Market Basket workers - produce managers, warehouse stockers, truck drivers - say that they have not camped outside the company's headquarters here in Tewksbury, Massachusetts for the reasons others have gone on strike across the US for recently.
They are not asking for the "living" wages, guaranteed sick leave, or bonuses that McDonald's employees or Seattle's airport workers have demanded in the past two years - mostly because they already get all of those.
Simply put, they want one thing: Arthur T (or "Artie D" as he's called by a certain type of north-eastern Massachusetts accent) back as their boss, after he was sacked in a long-running family feud.
It wasn't as if they weren't profitable.
Even with the low prices and the high salaries, Market Basket is reported to be quite profitable - making an estimated $217m in profit on $4.6bn of revenues last year.
When is the last time you heard of workers fighting to save the CEO's job? And the customers
supported them!
The success of the worker protests and customer boycott is apparent at the Market Basket in North Andover, Massachusetts.
It looks as if the apocalypse has hit: there is no produce, no meat, and there is only a single cashier, whose cash machine echoes in the vast space.
"Typically there'd be over 100 customers at any given time in this building," says manager Joe Amaral. "Now there are just three or four people.".
http://www.bbc.com/...
Yeah, it's one lone case...but it shouldn't be the last.