Are You Boycotting Local Market Basket Stores?

Striking Market Basket workers this week called for customers to boycott stores—a move that upped the ante in a dramatic fight over the company's future.

Thousands of workers have held rallies at the company's Tewksbury headquarters and stores across north New England. They demand that ousted CEO Arthur T. Demoulas be reinstated. Demoulas was fired after a bitter family feud that pitted him against his cousin, Arthur S. Demoulas, who is the current CEO.

Market Basket has about 25,000 employees at 71 stores in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine.

"We ask for you to boycott our stores until we get (Arthur T.) back," the workers said in a statement.

"We want to hit them where it hurts, which is with customer loyalty and with the pocketbook," employee Lisa Adams told NECN.

A resolution of some kind could be reached Friday, when the Market Basket board is expected to meet.

There are Market Basket stores in Westford, Chelmsford, and Billerica. The shelves at those stores were bare, as the protests have limited deliveries.

Are you boycotting local Market Basket stores? If so, where else are you shopping for groceries?

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• Elected Officials Statewide Pledge Support for Market Basket Boycott
• Despite Firings, Market Basket Employees Continue Fight
• LIVE UPDATES: Market Basket Employees Rally Again Monday
• Market Basket Warehouse Supervisor Fired, 7 More Terminated
• Stores Feel the Pinch, Legislators Chime in as Market Basket Employees Stand Together to Bring Back Ousted CEO Arthur T.
• PHOTOS: Market Basket Employees, Customers Rally in Support of Arthur T.
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• Market Basket HQ Workers Won't Show Up for Work Friday in Tewksbury, Plan Rally
• Market Basket Deadline Passes, Employees Who Walk Out Will Be Replaced
• As Market Basket Deadline Approaches for Artie T., 'All is Quiet' from Tewksbury HQ