Market Basket

I haven't been posting lately because all of my "free time" has been spent navigating new grocery stores. I've been the one with the 3 kids wandering for 10 minutes looking for cake mix only to find said cake mix and not get it because it's 4 times more expensive than at my regular store.

You see, I'm a displaced Market Basket shopper.

I drive by, I honk and I long to return to my red and white checked haven where I know I can get groceries at a decent price. Sure, in recent months I'd turned to the big boys of Shaws and Big Y for meat sales to feed my family. Market Basket's meat sales just weren't matching our tastes, so I had to go elsewhere. However, I returned to my local store for deli, dairy, produce and grocery items.

That all stopped when the workers started holding up signs and picketing. I'm not one of those people that can cross a picket line without feeling bad and besides that, I agree with them. Their jobs, their salaries and their pensions are being threatened. If ASD once tried to claim that he wouldn't change anything for the worse, he can't say the same thing now. His actions over the past few weeks have shown that he's all about money. I know he'd raise prices and cut salaries because he's in it for one person and one person alone - himself. He doesn't care about customers. He doesn't care about employees. If he did, he'd have ended the work stoppage weeks ago by giving everyone what they wanted - his cousin.

So while I hope that there will be a resolution sooner rather than later, I'm not holding my breath. I know ASD's greed and jealousy has the power to bring down Market Basket. I hope that there's a positive resolution, but at the same time I'm trying to get used to shopping at other stores and I'm trying to make their higher prices fit into my budget.