Help Save Market Basket!!!

[RailroadJoe]

Same thing here. And your correct I found three people looking lost at Hannaford and we all are still MB customers.

[tummyman]

We are loyal MB customers for over 30 years and are fully boycotting the chain until "T" is back. However, we are concerned by the news accounts of financing problems. Paying back debt will be a major issue going forward. As a starter, although it may be unpopular with some, I say eliminate the 4% giveback to customers. It is scheduled to end at the end of the year anyway and if it will make a difference to get the stores back and profitable, it is a small price to pay. And anyway, it was ONLY just a promotion for one year. Be done with it now and let's stabilize a gem, as well as bet "ASSOCIATES" back to work !!! We had stockpiled some items from MB that were their brand, and we are almost out of all of them. Time for this to end, if the greed and vengeance can be overcome.

[Rusty]

Originally Posted by RailroadJoe

Same thing here. And your correct I found three people looking lost at Hannaford and we all are still MB customers.

How do you know they used to shop a MB and how do you know they are still MB customers. Are you asking everyone that question at Hannaford?

[WakeboardMom]

Originally Posted by Rusty

How do you know they used to shop a MB and how do you know they are still MB customers. Are you asking everyone that question at Hannaford?

At the Hannaford in my town, there are lots of folks wandering around, clearly confused and needing help from the staff. These folks aren't shy about stating that they're displaced MB customers. Many are commiserating with each other as they search for items.

I have heard similar stories from several friends who have had this experience in other Hannafords and Shaws in the Lowell/Nashua/Salem area.

[RailroadJoe]

To Rusty. YES, I do ask them if they were customers at MB and their reply is yes I can't find things here.. Also one person stocking shelves worked for Nabisco and informed me she normally stock MB and has to do Hannafords. I talk to people.

[dave603]

It's hard to tell at the Nashua Hannaford. Just when this all started they had just begun reworking the store here.
So even the regular Hannaford customers are lost.
What they did to get extra help was at first bring in Vendors with special jackets saying they can help you find what you want. Then they brought in employees from outside the area that do not have MBs near them, mostly from Maine and New York.

There is a lot of joking about how far away you have to park to get to the store, people are calling it the " Market Basket Customer Exercise program".

[jeffk]

My nephew came in from Utica, New York (works for Hannaford there) to a MA store for one day. They paid him overtime. They also paid his travel expenses, for a hotel room, and meals. INSANE!

As I see this, people believe they have no other choice. If ASD stays in control, MB won't be worth shopping at or working for. Vendors are dropping off because the current management team doesn't know what it is doing.

Even if ATD comes back, there has been a lot of damage done to the business and money lost. Taking on debt to finance a buyout might require negative changes to the business.

I have read a little more history of the battle and ATD's father was a real piece of work. I can understand the animosity better. But it was insanity by the judge to give a controlling interest to the part of the family that hadn't run the business.

[fatlazyless]

Yesterday, August 20, 2014;

$1.69 : store brand 1/2 gal homogenized milk at Meredith Hannaford

$2.40 : store brand 1/2 gal homogenized milk at Plymouth Walmart

$1.59 : store brand canned sliced peaches at Meredith Hannaford

out of stock : store brand canned sliced peaches at Plymouth Walmart

As u probably know, the closest Market Basket is way down at Exit 20 in Tilton.