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Default Market Basket woes

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 7/28/2014 6:01 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 03:07:57 -0500, Alan Holbrook wrote:
>>
>>> Half the people I meet in the Shaw's just down the block from my
>>> usual MB
>>> are Market Basket refugees, and none of us are happy to be shopping
>>> there.

>>
>> This fiasco has been making the local news here as well. Market
>> Basket will be in even better shape once they reopen under the old
>> management.
>>
>> If I was the ousted CEO, I would have made the provision that the
>> amount of the offer drops $1 million every day. It seems unlikely the
>> company will survive under the current leadership. It would take some
>> marketing geniuses to restore it to its former glory, but that would
>> come at a huge price.
>>
>> -sw
>>

> I'm sure this will be studied in business school for what NOT to do.


I gather the MB situation has been studied for a LONG time. The feud
has been going on for decades.