Market Basket (New England)
DeMoulas Super Markets, Inc., under the trade name Market Basket, is a chain of 88 supermarkets in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, and Rhode Island in the United States, with headquarters in Tewksbury, Massachusetts.
A typical Market Basket store in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
The last use of the name DeMoulas on a facade was on this former store in Salem, New Hampshire.
Market Basket's flagship store in Chelsea, Massachusetts, site of June 24 rally
On June 23, 2014, the Board of Directors of DeMoulas Super Markets, Inc., the company that runs the Market Basket chain of supermarkets, fired President and CEO Arthur T. Demoulas. Demoulas's dismissal resulted in protests from 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.
Chelsea Market Basket store
Sign supporting the Market Basket protests at the Tupelo Music Hall in Londonderry, New Hampshire
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick
New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan