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Market Basket employees hang a welcome back sign Thursday at the Biddeford store. From left are Oakley Garlow, Keith McGee and Brandon Gould. McGee, an assistant manager and 21-year employee, said people who work at Market Basket view their jobs as life-long commitments. “This is a company we built,” he said. “We called this a career for so many years, and the thought of losing our careers and this becoming just another job was positively frightening.”