Diane Rivard, 54, of Wells, a loyal Market Basket customer, wept Wednesday night when she heard the news that the company’s former president Arthur T. Demoulas had bought the company. On Thursday morning, she went on a buying spree at the Biddeford store, purchasing $275 worth of groceries and donating all the food to a York Country food pantry. Rivard said she had joined the thousands of Market Basket customers who had boycotted the store for six weeks to show support for the workers. “Businesses nowadays don’t think customers are important,” she said. “But we showed the power of the people.”
BIDDEFORD, ME – AUGUST 28: Diane Rivard of Wells, a loyal customer, stands with a trunk full of $275 worth of groceries she would donate to a food pantry in York County, the day after the supermarket’s board of directors agreed to sell the company back to former CEO Arthur T. Demoulas on Thursday, August 28, 2014. (Photo by Tom Bell/Staff Writer)
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