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Who wins with this resolution of the Demoulas drama? Out of the gate, it looks like everyone wins after six weeks of pain. As a lot of us in this region go back to Market Basket as full- or part-time shoppers and/or employees, let’s hope that the “more” in “More…
Read More »The Demoulas drama coming at all of us who are watching, either live in Merrimack Valley or via media, is triggering a million memories of our encounters with the family and its business. I’m pretty sure it was in the mid-1980s when Fotene Demoulas invited a group of creative people…
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Market Basket With no council meeting this week, the Market Basket saga continues to be the biggest news around. As Kendall Wallace wrote in his Saturday Chat yesterday (no link yet), there should be at least one fascinating book to come out of this. The DeMoulas family feud has been…
Read More »Shirley Leung of the Boston Globe went to The Olympia for lunch to learn what the locals are saying about the Demoulas-Market Basket Affair. Read her column here, and get the Globe if you want more of this kind of newspapering.
Read More »My staples are still holding, so looking for fresh food today, I started locally at the East Street Farm Stand (Farmer Dave’s) in Tewksbury… my cache was a few small peaches, tomatoes, butter beans, a pepper, 6 ears of corn… the stand was busy and had just opened for the…
Read More »This is a re-post from July 2013, pulled from the richardhowe.com archives—PM The media coverage of family friction involving the owners of the Market Basket supermarket empire sent me back in the Time Tunnel to the mid-1960s, maybe 1965, when the Ford Mustang was the sports car of the moment…
Read More »The media coverage of family friction involving the owners of the Market Basket supermarket empire sent me back in the Time Tunnel to the mid-1960s, maybe 1965, when the Ford Mustang was the sports car of the moment (the model had been unveiled at the 1964 World’s Fair in New…
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