
Market Basket turmoil

On Wednesday, protesters show their support for Arthur T. Demoulas outside of the Market Basket store in Somerville.
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| July 18, 2014

Business at Market Basket stores across Massachusetts slowed to a trickle as employees continued their protests.
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| July 18, 2014

Employees have issued calls for another rally on Friday at the chain’s Tewksbury headquarters at 10 a.m.
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| July 18, 2014

Workers are seeking the reinstatement of former chief executive Arthur T. Demoulas.
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| July 18, 2014

Tim Tobin took part in the protest in Somerville.
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| July 18, 2014

On Tuesday, protesters set up outside of a Market Basket in Lowell.
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| July 18, 2014

Deirdre O’Connor, of Lowell, normally a Market Basket shopper, had to visit the Hannaford across the street.
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| July 18, 2014

Market Basket workers held signs outside their Stadium Plaza store.
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| July 18, 2014

Market Basket workers (left to right) Michelle Mailloux, Liz Cochrane, and Idalisse Garcia took part in the protest.
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| July 18, 2014

Market Basket worker Antonia Rosa mopped a relatively empty aisle in Lowell.
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| July 18, 2014

Protesting Market Basket employees took their fight right to the beleaguered grocery chain’s 71 stores in the region.
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| July 18, 2014

Marie Chuang and her granddaughter Olivia Bunten of Burlington were at the Burlington store on Monday.
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| July 18, 2014

John Garon, a front end manager in Burlington, looked at an empty produce cooler.
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| July 18, 2014

Matthew Dirico sat outside the Market Basket store in Burlington.
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| July 18, 2014

A notice was seen at a store in Tewksbury.
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| July 18, 2014

Juan Acevedo of Lowell, a seven-year employee, held a sign in Tewksbury.
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| July 18, 2014

Steve Paulenka, who was just fired from Market Basket, held up a stack of petitions he said were signed by customers in support of bringing back the former CEO Arthur T. Demoulas.
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| July 18, 2014

State Senator Barry Finegold took part in the rally for the ousted leader of Market Basket.
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| July 18, 2014

Thousands of workers at Market Basket grocery stores throughout the region poured in for a rally in Tewksbury on Monday.
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Dean Joyce, a former warehouse manager for Market Basket, spoke at the protest.
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| July 18, 2014

Police officers directed traffic as helicopters flew overhead and protestors chanted “Artie T.! Artie T.!”
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| July 18, 2014

Yogesh Patel, a janitor at store 170 in Billerica, was among those at the protest.
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| July 18, 2014

One organizer put the crowd at around 5,000.
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| July 18, 2014

At least eight Market Basket employees were fired Sunday, including organizers of a protest.
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| July 18, 2014

More than 2,000 supporters of ousted chief executive Arthur T. Demoulas gathered outside the chain’s Tewksbury headquarters Friday.
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| July 18, 2014

Stephen Distasio is the store manager at the Raynham Market Basket.
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| July 18, 2014

Distasio has worked for the company for 32 years.
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| July 18, 2014

There was no immediate comment from Demoulas’ leadership, or from former chief executive Arthur T. Demoulas.
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| July 18, 2014

Market Basket workers from two Fitchberg stores were transported to the rally Friday.
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| July 18, 2014

On the bus with the protesters.
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| July 18, 2014

The recent showdown is the latest extraordinary turn in a decades-long feud between two branches of the Demoulas family.
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| July 18, 2014

Despite threats of being fired by the company, employees gathered to demand the return of Arthur T. Demoulas.
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| July 18, 2014

Protesters raised their fists in a show of support for the ousted leader.
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| July 18, 2014

The employees vowed to rally again Monday and to gather outside the headquarters every day until he is reinstated as chief executive.
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| July 18, 2014

A dozen managers and workers spoke at Friday's two-hour rally.
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| July 18, 2014

The family of Market Basket worker Doug Hicks were among the protesters.
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| July 18, 2014

People made their way to Friday's protest.
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| July 18, 2014

A sign backing the ousted president.
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| July 18, 2014

Protesters streamed toward the company’s corporate offices Friday morning.
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| July 18, 2014

Larry Frost, of Lowell, a cashier at a Billerica store, had a black stripe on his badge in support of Arthur T. Demoulas.
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| July 18, 2014

Braedyn Greenan, 6, of Lowell, was taking part in the Friday protest to support his dad.
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| July 18, 2014

Brian Mamczak, 27, works at a Market Basket store in Milford, N.H.
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Arthur T. Demoulas was fired by a board controlled by his cousin and chief rival, Arthur S. Demoulas.
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| July 18, 2014