A year later, things are going pretty well for Market Basket [View all]

[PoliticAverse]

For Tom Trainor, last summer wasn’t an easy one of beaches or barbecues. He was out of work. He spent long hours in crowded parking lots under the hot, hot sun. And he had to rely on his daughters to teach him how to learn to use Facebook on the fly, so he could use the social network to help organize one of the most unlikely employee and consumer revolts in recent memory.

But in retrospect, the Market Basket regional manager fondly remembers the six weeks in July and August, during which employees of a multi-billion dollar Tewksbury-based supermarket chain protested for an unusual cause: to save the job of their CEO.

“I think it was probably one of the best things that ever happened for the company,” Trainor said.

A year later, Trainor’s actions have been followed by the continued success of the company, under the direction of the leader he championed. New stores are up and running, operations are more efficient than ever, and, according to Market Basket officials, the company is having little trouble in paying back the debt it took on last year to settle a decades-long family rivalry and return the chain to normal.

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