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Market Basket Boycotters, Where Are You Shopping Now?

Many loyal shoppers are heading to other markets to do their food shopping while workers continue to fight to reinstate the ousted CEO.

By Robert Gates

The push by Market Basket workers to have customers boycott the chain has changed the shopping habits of many loyal Market Basket shoppers this week.

Workers want former CEO Arthur T. Demoulas reinstated and part of their effort is to ask shoppers to boycott Market Basket, in hopes of forcing the new management and board to bring back "Artie T."

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Many shoppers are going along with the boycott, with parking lots much emptier than usual this week and checkout lines virtually nonexistent.

Deliveries from the Market Basket warehouses have also stopped this week and protests continue at many of the chain's 71 stores in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine.

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Where are you doing your shopping? Are you heading to another one of the large chains? Tell us in the comments.


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