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Strike Cost Stop & Shop $2 Million A Day

WSHU | By Davis Dunavin
Published April 23, 2019 at 10:02 AM EDT
A striking worker walks outside a Stop & Shop supermarket in Revere, Mass., last week.
Michael Dwyer
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AP
A striking worker walks outside a Stop & Shop supermarket in Revere, Mass., last week.

More than 30,000 Stop & Shop employees went back to work Monday in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island after an 11-day strike.

Workers and management reached a tentative agreement that includes wage increases and maintains health coverage.

David Cadden, a professor emeritus at the Quinnipiac University School of Business, said three-quarters of customers chose to shop somewhere else during the strike. And now Stop & Shop has to win those customers back.

“Maybe they went to a Walmart or Aldis and their focus is singularly on price. Other customers might stay with a Whole Foods or a Trader Joe’s. Or it just may be they had an antipathy to the idea of the staff having a strike at all.”

The strike overlapped with the shopping period for Easter and Passover. Cadden says Stop & Shop lost about $2 million a day during the strike – which could be around 5 percent of their annual revenue.

Copyright 2019 WSHU
Davis Dunavin
Davis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. He fell in love with sound-rich radio storytelling while working as an assistant reporter at KBIA public radio in Columbia, Missouri. Before coming back to radio, he worked in digital journalism as the editor of Newtown Patch. As a freelance reporter, his work for WSHU aired nationally on NPR. Davis is a proud graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism; he started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.
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