The Somerville Market Basket

[ron_newman]

The Somerville Market Basket this afternoon was a pretty sad place -- employees outside telling shoppers not to shop there; signs all over the store inside urging us to write to various e-mail addresses for the CEOs and independent members of the board of directors; produce shelves nearly empty except for bananas; dairy cooler aisle starting to visibly thin out in products like yogurt and cottage cheese.

The packaged goods in the middle of the store still looked reasonably well-stocked, and the bread aisle was quite full.

I left without buying anything, even though I needed orange juice and they still had that. I'm not going to shop in a store when the employees are asking me not to.

Comments

[drglam]

Consider that the side of the family now in power are the kind of people who do this:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2010/01/13/squeezed-back-bay-tycoon-aging-professor-may-yet-prevail/5Vp9hDs0iPNStPaVSFoj9K/story.html

[ron_newman]

It's hard for me to keep track, but isn't this the Arthur T. side of the family (the ones who just got forced out)?

[drglam]

I'm pretty sure not; people were talking about boycotting because of it, and other people pointed out it was the other side of the family.

[ron_newman]

Frances Demoulas Kettenbach and Arthur T Demoulas are both children of the late Telemachus ('Mike') Demoulas. His side is the one who lost the huge court case in the 1990s and had two lawyers disbarred (one of whom, Gary Crossen, was co-defendant with Frances in your Globe article)

It's all very confusing.

[ron_newman]

more about Michael Kettenbach. Good guy to help run a grocery chain, even while also an evil residential property owner?