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METHUEN, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — After Market Basket removed CEO Arthur T. Demoulas on Tuesday, wholesale distributors of the supermarket chain are worried about the future.
With many small businesses in the Bay State depending on their relationship with Market Basket to stay afloat, some are nervous about changes or possible boycotts towards the grocery store.
Heather Baker, Farm Manager of family-owned Pleasant Valley Gardens in Methuen, recalls a familiar feeling she had watching her father go through the 2014 Market Basket strike.
“We didn’t have a place for our mums to go, we didn’t have a place for our produce to go, we were scrambling to find other buyers for all of our produce and our flowers,” said Baker.
Pleasant Valley Farms has been selling produce and flowers to Market Basket since the 1980s, and as a small business dependent on working with the chain, Baker said she’s concerned about the future.
“They're our number one customer, we were mainly retail and we wholesale all of that to them, and the panic that’s in me, but I'm trying to not panic is, ‘are we going to see the same thing?’” said Baker.
WBZ NewsRadio’s Kyle Bray (@KyleBrayWBZ) reports.