The Market Basket Saga Is the Feel-Good Story of the Summer

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It seems the summer has been plagued by bad news, from the worst Ebola outbreak yet to the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over Ukrainian airspace to the death of Michael Brown and the subsequent protests that filled Ferguson, Missouri

Which make feel-good stories all the sweeter

In June, the board of Market Basket, a chain of supermarkets spanning New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine, fired CEO Arthur T. Demoulas. A long-running feud in the Demoulas family over the direction of Market Basket prompted the firing; in mid-2013, during Arthur T.'s tenure, the board began backing his cousin, Arthur S. Demoulas. Read more...

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