Sign
- Title:
- Save Market Basket!
- Object Name:
- Sign
- Object ID:
- 2014.049.02
- Date:
- 2014
- Description:
- Picket sign, used in protest at Market Basket supermarket in Concord, NH, 2014. White poster board. Vertical rectangle. Hand lettered with black marking pen: "SAVE / MARKET / BASKET / ARTIE / T. / ARTHUR / $". Applied color photographs of Arthur T. Demoulas and Arthur S. Demoulas on left. Applied images of "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" on right. Stapled to square wooden stick.
- Material:
- Paper
Wood - Dimensions:
- H-28 W-22 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, Supermarkets
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