Open Mouth, Insert Foot...Again At first it was challenging to respond to the Boards PR firm KEKST and the co-CEOs PR firm ONeill and Associates but at this point it is almost not worth doing because the Market Basket faithful can see right through these statements and rip them to shreds with little if any prompting from WAMB. Today the company responded to the letter from Boston Sword & Tuna that was posted on WAMB and Save Market Basket FaceBook page as well as on Boston and Boston Sword & Tunas website. Naturally after that letter was made public there were several inquiries to the headquarters and a Market Basket spokesman released the following statement in response: When a distribution network set up over decades is shut down in one day it is naive to assume any company would not suffer. The longtime employees that ran Market Baskets buying and distribution system walked out on their jobs, their customers and their vendors on July 18. That is precisely the reason Market Baskets stores have had only limited perishable items in stock since. We do understand the problems that the shutdown of the distribution system has caused Market Baskets vendors who are caught in the middle of this situation. We have been diligently working with vendors to limit the damage the walkout has caused. Oh, we get it, its the associates (your statement calls us employees again) fault. It wouldnt, couldnt, shouldnt be the incompetent current management or the arrogant independent Board members, or the classless class A shareholders fault. Nope its easiest to blame the associates for their destruction of a company that ran like a well oiled machine, that always paid its bills with its vendors (we call them business partners) faster than any other company. We have the best people in the business, people that cared about each other and their company the fact that you fired ATD, Bill Marsden and Joe Rockwell shows what kind of corporate vultures you really are. In our company the manager always takes responsibility for the actions of those associates under them, whether it is a department head, store director or CEO you never, ever blame your people for your own shortcomings. Apparently Felicia, Jim, Keith, Ron and Eric, you missed that class at MBA school. You were warned many times publicly and through letters and emails that you chose to ignore. You have threatened us and during the almost three weeks that you were running the company before the walkout how many of those associates involved in the buying and distribution system did you care to introduce yourself to or even say hello? We have a rule in our company, if you are within 10 feet of someone you acknowledge them. The ONLY thing you did in that timeframe was to try to get Attleboro and Revere on track and try to get loyal associates to take their fired bosses positions. Sorry folks but the blame here rests squarely on the puppet independent Board members and their two twice reaffirmed co-CEOs. What does the walkout have to do with the fact that you have squandered company finances by allowing business partners to be OVER PAID? James Gooch we understand that your job as Chief Administration Officer and Company Treasurer was the accounting department. In just over a couple of hours research we have determined that you have over paid a grand total of $943,000 to just 6 of our business partners. What if we dig deeper and check on the hundreds of business partners we have, we are sure we will uncover a lot more that has been squandered and mis appropriated by the companys current management. Your accounting mistakes have nothing to do with the associates walking out. By the way, we associates did not walk out on our customers and business partners on July 18, the Board did that on June 23 when they fired Arthur T Demoulas. WAMB
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 23:22:38 +0000
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