Sign

Title:

Boycotting Customer!

Object Name:

Sign

Object ID:

2014.049.01

Date:

2014

Description:

Picket sign, used in protest at Market Basket supermarket in Concord, NH, 2014. White foam board. Illustration and text on both sides.

Side 1: Vertical rectangle. Hand lettered with red and blue marking pens: "Boycotting / Customer! / Paying more than / I can afford since / July 15th 2014 / Stop feeding the greed! / Bring Back ATD!" At lower left, illustration of head of a giraffe, chewing paper money, in brown, black, and green.

Side 2: Horizontal rectangle. Large illustration of head of a giraffe chewing money, as on side 1, with red text, "Please don't feed / the CEOs!"

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-29.75 W-20 inches

Provenance:

Used by picketer at Market Basket store on Fort Eddy Road, Concord, NH, during boycott in summer, 2014.

On June 23, 2014, the Board of Directors of Demoulas Super Markets, Inc. (led by Arthur S. Demoulas), the company that runs the Market Basket chain of supermarkets, fired President and CEO Arthur T. Demoulas (cousin of Arthur S.). Arthur T.'s dismissal resulted in protests by the company's employees and customers. The protests ended on August 27, 2014, when the company's shareholders, including Arthur S. Demoulas, agreed to sell their shares to Arthur T. Demoulas.

Credit Line:

Gift of Brenda Joziatis

Subjects:

Protests, Protesters, Protest posters, Pickets, Boycotts, Giraffes, Supermarkets