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Paper Roses

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8. I bet you are right about price increases.

Reply to merrily (Reply #6)

Fri Aug 22, 2014, 04:42 PM

Aug 2014

In the long run, we customers and the store employees will lose.
The MB owners hold all the cards. Fight as they might, they still own this chain of 72 stores. Even if they sell out, what is a few million between the family.

I wish I felt that someone within the MB organization card about serving their customers.
This strike is severely hurting a huge number of people.

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Are you a Market Basket customer? [View all] Paper Roses Aug 2014 OP

The stores ARE opened. The "strike" is between the board of directors, two cousins and CUSTOMERS. canoeist52 Aug 2014 #1

I want my supermarket back rox63 Aug 2014 #2

The company will not go under. The real estate alone is valuable. merrily Aug 2014 #7

I am not a customer, and I never was. Agschmid Aug 2014 #3

Wish we had a Wegmans near but we don't. Paper Roses Aug 2014 #4

I'm lucky the chestnut hill one is right by my job. j Agschmid Aug 2014 #5

I do not think it is realistic to believe that merrily Aug 2014 #6

I bet you are right about price increases. Paper Roses Aug 2014 #8

Price Chopper cleveramerican Aug 2014 #9

Hi, I never heard of Price Chopper. Will Google Paper Roses Aug 2014 #12

They are mostly stocked back up again rox63 Aug 2014 #13

Glad to have my supermarket back! rox63 Aug 2014 #10

Not a MB customer. I have many grocery choices near wher chelsea0011 Aug 2014 #11