Market Basket on track for its highest gross sales ever and is opening new stores.

[merrily]

Just heard on WBZ TV. The company is on track for well over $4 billion in sales, best in the company's history. I think it was 5 new stores that will be opening.

I'm not saying you can never do well unless your employees are happy. But, if employee morale is high and they feel respected and proud to be working where they work--Katie, bar the door (whatever that means), especially if your prices are fair as well.. Or rather, swing those doors wide open and let in all the happy, well-treated customers.

ETA: The following link is not in direct support of the specific figures I heard this morning , but does show the remarkable recovery of the company.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/06/27/year-later-market-basket-thriving-after-near-meltdown/EIePjTzCJYhgLWwRpBuoAI/story.html

SOLIDARITY. It's a beautiful thing.




Also posted in Omaha Steve's Labor Group.

[Demeter]

1. Congratulations to New England!

A light in the economic darkness, as well as the political.

[merrily]

2. As well as the just plain human/humane. I assume that the winner in the

Market Basket fight--the one the employees sacrificed personally to fight for, was a more humane employer?

[Mopar151]

3. "ArtieT" knows names, goes to funerals, treats employees like people.

Wal-Mart "associates" look scared, harried, and a little doomed... MB Associates WANT to be there, aren't scared or mad, and are capable and happy to help you.

[merrily]

4. Nice, thanks.