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Any Sympathy I Had For Stop N Shop Workers Is Gone After The Publicly Shamed And Harassed Ray Bourque For Buying Food 

 

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People have asked us to blog about the Stop n Shop strike that started last week. Personally, I try not to get involved in situations like this because it’s more complicated than meets the eye, and I don’t know all the details. I generally, as a default, usually side with labor, unless they give me a reason not to. And harassing and publicly shaming Bruins legend Ray Bourque for buying food in North Andover is one of those reasons:

The real crime here is that anyone would ever shop at Stop n Shop to begin with when Market Basket is a thing that exists.

These seem like perfectly reasonable responses:

“Now my 300 autographs I got when I played against Chris are worthless.”

Tell us more about the glory days bro. We’re all very impressed. Almost as impressed as the fact that you’re a grown ass man who wears flat brimmed hats, can shoot a frisbee, and carry a gun in your crotch.

Someone pointed out that publicly shaming people probably isn’t the most effective way to get your point across, but Christine Fontanez disagreed. 

Yea, no. You could’ve posted a video of anyone shopping there, and you chose Ray Bourque because he’s famous. Customers who cross picket lines aren’t scabs; replacement workers are. But you’re not shaming them, just a private citizen trying to buy overpriced food at a shitty supermarket.

And all these yahoos calling him a “scab,” have no idea what that word means. Scabs are replacement workers who take your job when you’re on strike. They undermine the strike. Ray Bourque is a customer, and you don’t treat customers like that. Ever. What happens when the strike ends and you see him in the store? Whatever your salary was was paid for by people like him.

Just to be clear, I would not have done this if I were Ray Bourque, especially when there are other places to shop. But when Market Basket workers went on strike a few years ago it worked, specifically because they didn’t do stuff like this. They stood there, smiled, and waved. The real problem aren’t the customers, it’s your fellow workers inside stocking the shelves and undermining your strike.

And no, your labor dispute has nothing to do with the fact that he was in a union too. Ray Bourque was in the top .01% of people in the world at playing hockey. He had a unique talent that couldn’t be replaced. His labor was valuable and rare, whereas your’s is replaceable. I also don’t remember seeing Stop n Shop workers standing on picket lines in front of any other striking workers recently, yet they want everyone else in a union to join their’s. Sorry, but that’s a hard pass on that one guys.

 

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122 Comment(s)
  • J. Hoffa
    April 22, 2019 at 10:30 am

    Joke will be on these unskilled shrieking 80 IQ fucksticks when their ‘jobs’ are replaced by automation shortly. Complete and utter economic illiteracy happens to be just one of the many intellectual blind spots of fat lazy union trash. Your typical union argument goes something like this…HEY NO FUCK YOU DO WHAT I WANT OR I’LL SCREAM HOLLER CALL YOU A SCAB AND MAKE PATHETIC SOPHOMORIC THREATS ABOUT KICKING YOUR ASS. Not sure which is lower…your level of class or your deductive reasoning skills. Either way it is a race to the bottom, much like your life has been since you either got knocked up out of wedlock or knocked someone up out of wedlock. If you had any kind of marketable skill, I could sympathize. You do realize high school kids can do your ‘job’. No one ever said you should raise a family working at a grocery store or fast food restaurant. Stop and Shop is overpriced. WalMart is not. The average person likes to save money. Squeal like pigs all you want, but facts are facts. Human nature is human nature.

  • Patrick Roy
    April 16, 2019 at 1:11 pm

    Your “god” ray aka dumb Canadian won his cup in Colorado. He made his cash thanks to a strong union and a shitty hockey franchise in the “most racist city” in America.

    • Harry Meanwell
      April 17, 2019 at 4:15 am

      Atlanta?

  • steven
    April 16, 2019 at 12:18 pm

    The worst part of this…he was a proud member of a union for 22 years and GOT his money…and yet doesn’t stand up for those just trying to get theirs…. Sad really.

  • Turtle Scab Sports
    April 16, 2019 at 9:57 am

    Fuck this page. Bootleg barstool wannabe’s

  • Turtz McGurtz
    April 16, 2019 at 9:43 am

    i can’t recall another TBS article generating such a strong response, with good arguments on both sides. But c’mon S&S don’t hassle the Captain. Where the fuck is Lyndon Byers when you need him?

  • Barry
    April 16, 2019 at 9:15 am

    I never like to feel like I have to do something but Liz Warren demanding that Stop & Shop shoppers not cross the line has forced me to sign up for Peapod. A little FYI for anyone who’s retirement is built on a Ponzi: robots don’t pay dues or make pension contributions so you might want to revisit your strategy.

  • Sal O’Mal
    April 16, 2019 at 9:02 am

    I’d forgotten about the strike. They yelled as I approached the door and told me to go to Big Y (which is expensive AF). Do what you gotta do, but don’t tell me where to shop, and don’t you want a job to go back to when all of this is over? I went to Target instead.

    • Sal's full O'shitt
      April 16, 2019 at 11:47 pm

      Calling bullshit. Never happened.
      “I forgot” ? Yeah, they’re picketing and everything but you were clueless till you got to the door and they said something? Riiiiiight.

  • Standing in solidarity
    April 16, 2019 at 12:44 am

    Going to disagree with you on this one, MVTB.
    Ray B even thought better of what happened and sent out an apology.
    This contract is horrible. Some might say that some of it only affects new hires but guess what? You ratify it and they start brooming long time employees in favor of bringing in newer, cheaper fresh meat. The turnover would be almost immediate.
    These employees are your friends and neighbors. Try not shitting on them. Unions help all of us to have better working conditions, whether your place is organized or not. Sometimes the prospect of a union coming in is enough to encourage an employer to treat their help better.

    • Chester the Fupa Molester
      April 16, 2019 at 6:40 am

      Shut up and bag my groceries you unskilled fuck wad. Any dipshit with arms and legs and few without can work in a grocery store. Go back to work or get the fuck out of the way so someone who wants to work can.

    • Innocent Bystander
      April 16, 2019 at 8:46 am

      Borque said he was picking up medical stuff probably on order at the pharmacy, so it was kinda like he couldn’t get the stuff anywhere else. Also he apologized.

  • Ask Brett how his trolling went on the Hub
    April 15, 2019 at 11:53 pm

    All tough till it came time for his ass to cash the check his smart mouth wrote. Thought he could troll but all he did was show himself to be a trembling beta cuck with no real intelligence.
    It must suck to be a known criminal scrub in your town and to have no real friends. As soon as you’re shown to be a liability, the TB crew will throw you aside like a Big Mac wrapper.
    Real fucking hardo. Give the invite to come around then hide with 911 on your obamaphone’s speed dial. Why don’t you slither on over to Brockton and run that cockholster like you do behind the keyboard?
    Go braid your pubes and your ponytail to match, you nutless weasel rat fuckboy.
    You’re an embarrassment to and a burden on your parents. I feel for them.

  • Wobbly
    April 15, 2019 at 11:28 pm

    When I lived in Boxford I was more of a Johnny Bucyk guy than a Borque guy , but both their numbers are hanging from the rafters. Still not a good look for Ray.

  • Michael Johnson
    need to know
    April 15, 2019 at 11:12 pm

    Here’s an important point that the union strikers need to know. While they are outside and not getting paid , their business agent making approx $150,000 and the president of the local making double that, they ate still getting paid! They tell the members to stay strong while they ate collecting 6 figures. Fuck them

    • Michael Johnson
      need to know
      April 15, 2019 at 11:16 pm

      Sorry, the word is are, not ate

  • Bobby Orr
    April 15, 2019 at 9:40 pm

    Ray Bourque is an ankle skater.

  • Roger
    April 15, 2019 at 8:40 pm

    Lost a lot of respect for you turtle bae and completely disagree with your take on this one. Unions protect workers; keeping wages fair while keeping work local. Ray Bourques a turd for doing this, basically shitting on his biggest fan base(hard working blue collar Americans). Fuck big business, corporate ceos and their golden parachutes, you and your anti union ways, and Ray Bourque.

    • Chester the Fupa Molester
      April 16, 2019 at 6:45 am

      “keeping wages fair while keeping work local”

      You Ignorant Fuck it’s unskilled labor this type of job isn’t meant to support a family.
      It’s a fucking grocery store kids use it to get beer money while they work their way through college.

  • Joe Schmo
    April 15, 2019 at 7:46 pm

    fred looks like your liberal arts degree didnt pan out. come join the picket lines and we will you get you a nice job following marty around when its all said and done. the self scans are the only registers open because management and corporate working in the stores dont know how to use the register and most of them have bachelor and masters. goes to show your how worthless degrees can be

    • Fred
      April 15, 2019 at 7:57 pm

      Your point missed the mark entirely. Did I mention college degrees somewhere and not realize it??

  • Ryan l
    April 15, 2019 at 7:19 pm

    I completely disagree with your stance on this one we should support American jobs not the big company. And as to publicly shaming people you do it all the time with handicapped parking it seems hypocritical though I do love your blog

    • Fred
      April 15, 2019 at 7:30 pm

      You are an idiot. Who is going to pay a cashier 20$ and hour when we can pay the local retarded kid 10$….or pay no one because we now have self check out. And, lets go ahead and assume they pay that career cashier 20$/ hour….who is going to eat that cost difference? Certainly not stop n shop corporate….the cost of your douche just went up 1.00 per bag.

      • Face F*ck Fred
        April 16, 2019 at 9:26 am

        It’s not the cashiers striking you shit for brains. No one is picketing for high school workers to make more money, you ignorant, arrogant cock sucker. Ray is a shit bag for crossing the picket line because he used to be a union member and would have cried like a bitch if they called in replacements from the KHL or OHL while he was on strike.

  • Hemp bags and pandering to unions
    April 15, 2019 at 7:14 pm

    Ray, dissing union members and using plastic bags on top of it?
    For shame, not only have you set back workers rights 100 years but you are also ruining our planet.

  • Walter "Scabby Crotch" Bird
    April 15, 2019 at 6:17 pm

    Elizabeth Warren bullshitting American workers that she is for them while advocating for millions of foreign workers that will do the job for 3 bucks a hour. LOL But I do have something against a corporation handing out billions to CEO’s while their workers qualify for food stamps. That ain’t right.

  • Ex turtle rider
    April 15, 2019 at 5:59 pm

    By the way, no one wants your sympathy, they want better working conditions and their negotiating for those terms. So your sympathy can eat shit

    • Fred
      April 15, 2019 at 6:15 pm

      Than get a different job, faggot! You are a cashier at stop n shop not a brain scientist!

  • Chris Seith
    Sal da scab
    April 15, 2019 at 5:58 pm

    I hope S&S hires illegal immigrants or closes. If only we could go scorched earth with every public sector union and start from scratch. Well maybe just the Leo’s cause fuck em.

    • Barney Miller
      April 16, 2019 at 2:21 pm

      “Scab” As your local “leo” as you dismiss just like the haji in Minnesota Omar dismises us. Have fun when you get put on hold when you call 911. There’s a reason for that. Sorry.

  • Ex turtle rider.
    April 15, 2019 at 5:58 pm

    No one gives a fuck what you did in high school or how “tough” had it . Ray Borque is wrong for crossing that line when he belonged to a union himself. The only way to negotiate better wages and fair prices is for both the worker and consumer to take a stand. Don’t work for a company that is eroding workers benefits and earned entitlements. Not millennial entitlements, EARNED entitlements. Don’t vote with your spending to endorse these companies that don’t value their workers. It’s that simple. It’s the only way to negotiate in a free market system. And as for unions lobbying with politicians, if they should be banned fro . lobbying then so shouldn’t every industry and special interest. These people are taking a stand to negotiate better terms for themselves and you’re shitting on them. Probably because the writer is female that anonymously blogs with her free time. Tough racket. I’m conservative and I think it’s pretty disgusting that we would shame other citizens for taking a stand for themselves. Disgusting. And I got news for you, nobody is going to hire your two truck construction company to build skyscrapers. So get over the fuck the union thing you bitter broken miserably married stooges

    • Whiny union members
      April 15, 2019 at 6:38 pm

      There are plenty of skyscrapers built by non union companies.
      Look at the big dig disaster and the shoddy work and stealing done by all those union companies. Nuff said.

    • Fred
      April 15, 2019 at 7:23 pm

      You are a moron. Really “fair prices for both the worker and consumer” . Please tell me. How much should someone who can be replaced by a machine or someone willing to work for minimum wage be paid? And who eats those increased wages?? Certainly not the business owner…they go straight tp the pockets of the consumer. Fuck you and your “fair wages” for one of the only jobs they give to people with downs syndrome.

      • John
        April 15, 2019 at 8:54 pm

        Fred, let me explain something to you adult to adult. Unions side with democrats typically because democrats are the only party who is willing to endorse labor unions. I can’t tell you how many union guys have conservative values, socially and economically, and want that to change. However, these people aren’t petitioning the government to force stop and shop to pay them more, they’re protesting their employer to not take away over time, health benefits, annuity, which they’ve paid into every week from their earned wages. Collective bargaining is how a group of employees ask their employer to take less in profit and spread it to the people who help make the business run. Consumers that shop with principle over price in mind ie support local business, or support companies that have a stronghold on the local industry, should expect that they will pay their employees fairly. Because stop n shol being in town knocks out the real prospect of a local person opening a mom and pop and becoming business owners. So the least a consumer can do is side with the labor that works for the company that is so large in the industry. We are all working class people, and by crossing the line to either work or shop, you are saying fuck these people who bag my groceries, stock the shelves, cut my deli meat, clean my aisle spills. Your telling them their worthless because their jobs can be replaced by automation. You’re lacking empathy because it isn’t you. You’re demeaning how they earn a living because it isn’t dirty or physically intensive enough for your approval. You sound like the kind of guy who would be livid when you find out someone that works an easier occupation than you but makes more. Instead of being happy for the next man. You are not thinking it through, your thinking with emotion. If you really feel that way the next time someone cuts your deli meat, or brings your carriage to the carriage area, or bags your groceries, let them know you think they deserve very little and their basically useless. Tell them that yourself, Fred.

        • John
          April 15, 2019 at 9:02 pm

          Go tell the kid with down syndrome at stop and shop, to his face, that he should be glad he has an occupation because stop n shop hires the mentally impaired, and you believe he doesn’t deserve the dignity of asking for a raise, or negotiating better terms for himself. Tell him when you look at him all you see is “lucky retard” who should be grateful and keep his head down. But before you do that look in the mirror for two minutes straight and figure out what the fuck it is that made you such a lowlife, anonymous posting internet, miserable, bitter, unfuckable human being. Such a fucking weakling. A coward that has to deny that fundamental truth to go through the day. You scan, subservient minded weak fuck.

  • Style Police
    April 15, 2019 at 5:53 pm

    What’s wrong with flat brimmed hats haha Is the author a senior citizen ?

    • Retard Awareness Month
      April 15, 2019 at 7:51 pm

      Congrats, You have just won the most retarded comment for the month of April. Lemme guess what your favorite sports team is…

      • Two Morons
        April 15, 2019 at 9:42 pm

        Another dumb comment, good job!

  • Unions and politicians are both corrupt
    April 15, 2019 at 5:36 pm

    Unions should not be allowed to contribute to politicians. That is a conflict of interest. Just like everything else that happens when you mix business and politics as it creates nothing but corruption.

  • Screw Snowflakes
    stop n shop pussies
    April 15, 2019 at 5:30 pm

    HI remember when I worked at grocery store too. It interfered with Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley but I did it. Hey…I was 16 and it held me over until I turned 18 and got a real job.

  • TJB
    TJB
    April 15, 2019 at 5:00 pm

    Here’s how united airlines did it ,(in bed with the union). Ramp service threatened to strike systemwide; so the company gave in temporarily.
    Next, they started replacing the top earners with “temporary part time” workers. Then they outsourced maintenance & ground equipment. Then they had a “reduction in force”….. Layoff, but they hired more temps with no benefits. Then they outsourced lavatory, cabin cleaners and finally; fueling. And the union was fine with all this treachery. MB sells great products and has everything you need in one stop. The hot food takeout is great. Sure you run into the gimmee girls on the 1st. But that’s everywhere.

  • MAGA
    April 15, 2019 at 4:25 pm

    Fucking libs should be forced to work for free at gunpoint.

  • Calvin Fucking Coolidge
    April 15, 2019 at 4:22 pm

    Bread & Roses, Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”…all that shit is generation upon generation in the rearview mirror. These ain’t the glory days, you thugs.

    Go fuck yourself if you’re in a union and you use violence and intimidation to get your goddamn way.

  • What Now?
    April 15, 2019 at 4:08 pm

    Oh for Christ’s sake, turtleboy getting all upset for publicly shaming an ex athlete? Pot calling kettle black, no one gets a pass! Just drive 5 miles down the road and you can find another super market.

  • Ryan
    April 15, 2019 at 3:50 pm

    As a vendor I would never go into a Market Basket on my own free will. I enjoy my time and sanity, and I’m not poor.

  • Market Basket is better
    April 15, 2019 at 3:49 pm

    Unions = Scientology. Crazy whack jobs with low mental ability are easily brainwashed to spout the same union bullshit over and over. Union leadership is just another layer of management that uses the members as pawns to fatten their own pockets – guess how many of the 20 or so UFCW employees(vs members) make over 100k? Guess which union’s receptionist makes over 90k? Guess what percentage of the members make anything close to that? They only serve to protect the lowest common denominator and thank god they’re on the way out across the country.

    • Enough is Enough
      April 15, 2019 at 9:49 pm

      You are an idiot. Unions not only represent sports players but also police, fire, EMTs. You should pray that they are not in their way out. Who do you think is going to save your ass when you call 911. If the fire and police didnt have a union no sane person in the world would do their jobs.

      • Chris
        April 16, 2019 at 10:19 am

        Actually, it’s not true that people want to be a cops or firemen to join unions. They do it for public service. Public sector employees should not be in unions. Pro athletes’ unions don’t collectively bargain for their salaries, since each player signs their own contract. They negotiate the rules for their sport’s leagues.

  • Ratchets are like cockroaches
    April 15, 2019 at 3:43 pm

    When your job can literally be done by any high schooler on their first day you need to look in the mirror. I worked at a supermarket when I was 16 went to school and got a career. I didn’t stay as a cashier and bitch and moan about how I need more money. You union people crack me up, union ain’t doing shit for you. They already replaced half of you with self checkout.

  • Get back to work!
    April 15, 2019 at 2:53 pm

    Stop n shop is overpriced and the produce is picked over. Any raise they get will eventually put them out of work because it gets passed to the customers. Why pay more for everything when you can go to MB. Or hell, even Amazon!

  • Mahky Mahk Ballbag
    April 15, 2019 at 2:30 pm

    Bobby Orr would never try a stunt like that… neither would Dallas Smith. Ray you have no class!

  • Bravo Turtle
    April 15, 2019 at 2:10 pm

    Looks like you have exposed every ratchimal around the area. Now its onto the honest, hard working taxpayers. Your next conquer should be a lot shorter with 31,000 less to worry about

  • Harry Richard
    April 15, 2019 at 2:02 pm

    Figures this Turtle Broad would shop at Trash Basket. Also figures that a celebrity who doesn’t give a fuck about anyone reading or writing these blogs is held in higher esteem than the working class.

  • Fred
    April 15, 2019 at 1:43 pm

    This shit pisses me off. If you are demanding 20$ an hour to do a job that someone else will gladly come in and do for 15$…guess what? Your job isnt worth 20$/HR.

    • ???
      April 15, 2019 at 2:45 pm

      ?Where does the Dollar sign go

      • Christopher Lettiere
        April 15, 2019 at 4:14 pm

        That also pisses me off.
        Apparently, grammar has been kicked aside for testing metrics.

  • murdochpatsymcreynolds
    Old Tom Morris
    April 15, 2019 at 1:38 pm

    Didn’t know Stop&Shop sold booze.

  • Nadia Yenraek
    Nadia Yenraek
    April 15, 2019 at 1:28 pm

    turtleboy publicly shaming people on social media = good.

    strikers publicly shaming people on social media = bad.

    Thanks for clearing that up.

    • Chester the fupa molester
      April 15, 2019 at 9:16 pm

      Ray Bourque did nothing wrong he passed your imaginary picket line. I’ll be sure to egg you little bitches next time I drive by flipping the bird isn’t satisfying enough.

      • No you won't,
        April 19, 2019 at 11:50 pm

        Pussy.

  • Daniel Crowell
    Lucas McCain
    April 15, 2019 at 1:14 pm

    Ray Bourque would kick big noses ass up and down the parking lot and then stuff that pink frisbee down his throat in the real world

  • ARGO
    April 15, 2019 at 1:13 pm

    shame on the workers for not wanting to take a paycut as their profitable foreign company makes billions. turtle, you’re right. we should blindly follow washed up professional athletes to wherever they lead us. whether its false claims of racism, or turning their backs on unions that once made them successful. ya never question a pro athlete when they are clearly wrong. or your just a bum bagger looking for a fair contract. btw, u morons cant even cash yourself out on the self checkouts without help every 2 sec. when the automated voice tells u to put item in the bag PUT THE FUCKING ITEM IN THE BAG!

    • franky fuckwad
      April 15, 2019 at 1:55 pm

      Fuck you Argo, you work at a supermarket because you were too lazy and stupid to get a fucking education and learn a skill that is above a minimum wage worker you fucking idiot. I went to the North Beverly stop and shit yesterday, it was closed so I harassed the fucking faggots on the picket line and then went to Demuleass in Gloucester. Fucken idiot minimum wage cumsock

      • ARGO
        April 15, 2019 at 2:23 pm

        franky fuckwad baby, cmon man. if i told you how much i made and all of my benefits, and how much my pension will be you wouldnt be happy cause it would be a lot more valuable than your net worth. ill just say this i chose to leave college for the certainty of a good full time paying job. i stand on those lines everyday not just for myself but for my brothers and sisters that are less fortunate but willing to work hard for a good life. if you cant respect that then i dont know what to tell you except you make the liberal left look sane

        • Unions are for lazy morons
          April 15, 2019 at 2:57 pm

          Anyone that anonymously brags about how much money he has, lives in his elderly parents basement and bags groceries and gets carriages in the parking lot. The reason non-management workers at supermarkets make so little money is because it is a job that a 15 year old with no experience and one day of training can do. Don’t expect to be able to provide for a family doing a job: that customers without any training can do (self service check out), or stocking shelves, or taking milk out of a crate and putting into a cooler. The fact that workers at stop and shop are unionized shows how useless unions are.

        • Capt. Stubing
          April 15, 2019 at 8:15 pm

          It’s always the assholes making $28k a year that talking about their awesome pension and net worth. We get it, life is wonderful. I don’t even mind listening to your little story…as long as you keep the fucking meat slicer running. Don’t forget, I like my Boar’s Head Turkey sliced thin, but not too thin. Now shut the fuck to and get back to work.

  • Lord Stanley
    April 15, 2019 at 1:09 pm

    Why are high school kids in a union anyway? Also I give a fuck about their job as much as they would give a shit about mine, 0 percent.

    • Linda
      April 15, 2019 at 5:56 pm

      They are in a union because the Union can rape them of dues money and provide nothing in return.
      Union = greedy fat bastards driving too nice of a car.

  • dowen0895
    Dick Scratcher
    April 15, 2019 at 12:42 pm

    With a bit of luck, that flat-brimmed, Juicin’ Jeremy-alike will slip with that gun in his waistband and blow his tiny bollocks off.

  • Self checkout
    April 15, 2019 at 12:22 pm

    On my way to North Andover S&S to support Ray Borque.

    And use the self checkout.

    • Dick Buttkiss
      April 15, 2019 at 2:23 pm

      Fag…

  • Travis Rearick
    Stop n Shop blows
    April 15, 2019 at 12:12 pm

    No one cares about yer stupid fucking protest pahty, quit tryin to be like Market Basket, you can’t protest like they did, they are #1 and stop n shop is where Francis Sidebottom and other people with tiny pp’s shop

  • Twitter Cunts
    April 15, 2019 at 12:08 pm

    Always tough on twitter but get in his face and the ambulance crew will need a scraper to get you in the gurney.

  • Liberals be like
    April 15, 2019 at 12:00 pm

    They should learn to code. It’s constructive advice when you say that to laborers. It’s only hate speech when it’s directed towards someone with a college degree.

    • z
      April 15, 2019 at 12:09 pm

      Yup. If you can code, you can be an idiot and hit the $100K/year level.

      I’m an idiot.

  • Diogenes
    April 15, 2019 at 11:52 am

    I usually agree with the Turtle but not on this one. I’m not union, actually more anti-union but someone close to me is not. Out of respect for them, and respect for the fact that these folks are not paid well but are great at the S&S we use, I am respecting their lines and feel others should. The fact that the S&S management is acting stupidly and blatantly lying also makes it an easier choice. Yes, we love Market basket too, which is a chain that proves the value of dealing with staff honestly and fairly, but there isn’t one closer than a half-hour to us making it a less-than optimal option. Some people HAVE to go to a S&S for valid reasons during the strike, e.g. prescriptions, or banking, etc. but tossing in a bunch of other items for convenience sake is just lazy and not acceptable. The fact that Mr. Bourque was in fact well-protected through his career by the players association DOES indeed make his actions worse. He SHOULD be ashamed and yes, held to a higher standard due to his fame. How many Mil-lemming-als will feel it is ok “cuz Ray did it too dood”?

    • unions suck
      April 15, 2019 at 2:10 pm

      The free market dictates the salary of any worker, my local stop & Shop has a number of special needs (or whatever the PC term is for today) workers. That’s what the striking workers are competing against along with self checkout. When I was in high school I worked at an A&P
      for minimum wage and all I could steal. If you tattooed goofballs that slice bologna for Mrs. fatass think you’re worthy more go find another job or get a fucking edumacation you asswipes. bettey yet start your own grocery store fuckfaces

      • Father O’Touchahan
        April 15, 2019 at 3:08 pm

        Dirty thief.

      • Father O’Touchahan
        April 15, 2019 at 3:09 pm

        Dirty thief.

  • Hipsterbeard Beta-Cuckstein
    April 15, 2019 at 11:50 am

    Nipples poking through a wife beater while standing in front of an above ground pool with two guns and a broken frisbee. You probably won’t see that on a Whole Foods employee’s Facebook.

  • Hart Ford
    April 15, 2019 at 11:50 am

    Hey Shop n Shop union slopahogs. Your store has been quietly eroding for decades since the investment in Bradlees went to the bottom.
    Now most store are ghettos. Beards on the deli guys? I don’t think so. I don’t want hair in my sliced turkey breast.
    Its food shopping. My week to week package goods come from Amazon or WalMart direct to my front door. Produce and dairy from Whole Foods or Wegmans. Prepared foods from Henrys in Beverly.
    Pushing a disease riddled, rusting shopping cart with a bad wheel through throngs of third world hippopotamus EBTers with screaming babies as they scarf down cookies they pinched, ate and left the empty box at the check out? Not for me.
    Union porcines thinks they can jack the failing carcass up for a bigger payday not realizing they are shortening an already short lifespan. Not happy with the contract offered? Get a better job! (see your mother was right……you should have stayed in school!)

  • don
    April 15, 2019 at 11:49 am

    Anyone buying anything from a company that workers are striking is just plain bad. you are helping the store when the store is not helping its employees. the bank or precriptions should be the only reason to go into a business that the employees are picketing. Ive worked as a union rep and realized that they do not care about you. they line their own pockets. they fight for your raise then they raise union dues. its like social security. they give you a raise then raise medical expenses. i left the union and company to never ever return to a union run businesss again. when my union started going against me thats when i knew it was time to go.

    • Hart Ford
      April 15, 2019 at 11:53 am

      Thank you comrade. Shall I put you down for Bernie in 2020?

      • don
        April 15, 2019 at 11:55 am

        no. im voting for trump again. ty anyway

        • Hart Ford
          April 15, 2019 at 12:07 pm

          Congratulations Don! I see that abject illiteracy didn’t prevent you from rising up the ranks in the plug ugly unions. Based on what you wrote and the points that you convey might want to rethink how you communicate. And lose the beret!

  • bob
    April 15, 2019 at 11:29 am

    Unions suck, are mostly all crooked, and are run by organized crime thugs. Need I say more…

    • bigdaddy
      bigdaddy
      April 15, 2019 at 11:49 am

      No wonder they are in bed with the democrats

  • Ted Williams Frozen Head
    April 15, 2019 at 11:26 am

    Dear MVTB, this is sooo weak. So he made a decision to say f**k you to the picketers by crossing the picket line and buying food there anyway. He got a shitblast for his indifference. Why should he be any different than anyone else?
    And the fact he is a former union member has everything to do with this. What a fucking phony. I was a former member of local 369 (Boston) and my wife still is. I remember. For a blog constantly blathering about free speech, in this instance your talking out of your ass.
    I went to S & S yesterday, told the picketers I was sympathetic to their cause but needed to visit the pharmacy. No big deal and we had a nice conversation about shareholder value priorities and general indifference towards working men and women.
    The upside to this is there are no “panhandlers of the day” outside begging for money. On a recent visit someone was asking for money for heroin addicted homeless people…

    • Let me up, I've had enough
      April 15, 2019 at 3:21 pm

      What do you want, a medal? You felt the need to go apologize to picketers because you needed to go into the store to the pharmacy? The people’s hero. You think any of those people give 2 fucks about you? GTFOH.

  • Always something at that place
    April 15, 2019 at 11:25 am

    I stopped going to stop and shop because of the fundraisers. Sometimes I donated and other times I was using the “I don’t have cash” excuse until one day someone whipped out a phone with a card reader. After that I just stopped shopping there.

    • Dr. Kildaire
      April 15, 2019 at 11:56 am

      I’m with you on that one. Homely girls asking for money for beauty pageants, money for heroin addicted homeless people. It never ends. Only go there for the bank and pharmacy…

  • z
    April 15, 2019 at 11:24 am

    “A former union member!!!”

    When you have no choice but to be in a union to ply your trade, it really doesn’t matter. Maybe he was on board with the players union. Maybe not. Can anyone name a professional athlete not a union member when his or her teammates are? If you aren’t a member of a union shop you used to have to be fee to the union even if you weren’t a union member. But after the Supreme Court Janus ruling

    From reason dot com

    “annual reports filed with the federal Department of Labor show that the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) lost 98 percent of it’s agency fee-paying members during the past year. Another large public sector union, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), lost 94 percent of their agency fee-paying members.”

    That was $12.8 million is payments no longer given to those 2 unions.

    Being a professional athlete even if you weren’t pro union you’d still play ball. All kinds of nasty injuries could be inflicted on you during play.

    • Chris
      April 15, 2019 at 3:24 pm

      This is why I support Rand Paul’s National Right to Work Act. (I’m from a union family.) The National Labor Relations Act proscribes forced unionization. I wouldn’t have a problem with unions if they didn’t give their due$ money to D-party candidates and Planned Parenthood. This is why I support overturning Citizens United as BOTH SIDES do it!

      The extra due$ not given to politicians can be used for the membership. Have a union-run health plan like the old days! Have a union-backed pension like the old days! They make the cos. pay the pensions, ins., etc.

      If high school kids have to pay dues to work @ S&S for a summer job, then this makes no sense. Why should they have to join? Also, why should someone making $15/hr. be forced to join a union that represents unskilled labor. These guys aren’t Teamsters, Ironworkers, Steelworkers, etc. Joining a union for this kind of job only keeps your job, unless you’re @ the bottom during layoffs. It’s a tough call.

      • Cesar Chavez
        April 16, 2019 at 2:01 pm

        MaKing $4.00 an hour in 1996 at stop & shopand being forced into the ufcw union was terrible for a college student. My union rep was my boss – amazing neutrality! After working 20 hours one week I received a check of 29 cents after ufcw fees and dues. Union unskilled labor = slave labor

  • john keegan
    john r keegan
    April 15, 2019 at 11:22 am

    i am sure he would have crossed during a nhl strike to play with replacement players.. oh remind kevin millar he did and receives no pension from mlb sorry for the hardship caused to a guy that ran out of Boston so he could win a stanley cup. enuf

    • Christopher Lettiere
      April 15, 2019 at 11:24 am

      Ray deserved a cup, and he wasn’t getting one in Boston at that time. I don’t blame him.

      • Patrick Roy
        April 16, 2019 at 1:44 pm

        No one deserves the Stanley Cup! It’s not a participation trophy! Do you still love the Colorado Avalanche aka Quebec nordiques?

    • Christopher Lettiere
      April 15, 2019 at 11:25 am

    • z
      April 15, 2019 at 12:04 pm

      In Millars case, it probably came down to “This is my chance.” If he didn’t take that chance he may not have ever been given the opportunity to play in the big leagues to show whether he belonged there. He probably made the right decision. No MLB job also means no pension. So, did it really matter? Being a AAA guy isn’t going to earn all that much for all those years he was a MLB guy. He bet on himself. I imagine he’s ok with the outcome.

  • Christopher Lettiere
    April 15, 2019 at 11:19 am

    I didn’t realize Ray still had a license to operate a motor vehicle.

  • Lance Bolt
    April 15, 2019 at 11:18 am

    I’m not sure if he busted that pink frisbee over his nose… or chopped it with a dull axe…. a bullet would not break a frisbee like that.. I bet Ray could flatten that beak with a slap shot from a hundred yards…

  • John Barber
    April 15, 2019 at 11:11 am

    Why should Ray Bourque be exempt. As far as I’m concerned, if he knowingly crossed a picket line, he deserves everything he gets.

    • Rockets Redglare
      April 15, 2019 at 11:37 am

      Lets see tough guy Ray cross a Teamsters picket line…

      • TEAMSTERS are shitbags
        April 15, 2019 at 2:28 pm

        teamsters are thugs, burned my uncles tractor trailers and building back in the 60s, he and his buddies repaid all the union scum in spades. fucking faggots. I’LL FUCK YOU UP ASSHOLE. POST YOUR CELL AND HOME ADDRESS YOU FUCKING FAGGOT

        • Father O’Touchahan
          April 15, 2019 at 3:16 pm

          Father O’Touchahan.
          1-877-jesussaves
          123 Main Street.
          Heaven, North Pole
          See you soon toughguy.

          • Christopher Lettiere
            April 15, 2019 at 3:35 pm

            I like the phone number: 877-Jesussaves.
            Jesus might save, but Moses invests.

          • Fuck Unions
            April 15, 2019 at 3:39 pm

            GO SEE YOUR PRIEST AND GET YOUR ASSHOLE ENLARGED LIKE WHEN YOU WERE A KID, BITCHTITS’
            TEAMSTERS ARE SCUM.

          • Father O’Touchahan
            April 15, 2019 at 5:54 pm

            Mr F Unions. Please my son (goddddd forbid). Let me preach to you about forgiveness? I am sorry that teamsters burned your uncles trucks. I am more sorry that I was out there roasting marshmallows while the trucks burned and your fat uncle who impregnated his sister and doth createth you was inside, also burning. Had I known I would’ve brought more marshmallows to roast. Please say ten our fathers and then never become a father (prob too late, right Mr EBT king). May the taint be in your mouth and nostrils always, and also with you. Say hi to mom/aunt for
            Me.

  • I hate commies
    April 15, 2019 at 11:01 am

    Let me get this straight, you are trying to get as many people as you can to stop buying things from your employer, which relies on sales to stay in business ….fire them all and hire folks that will try to help your business, not hurt it. Stop and shop should get these parasites charged with trespassing and loitering if they are picketing on their property.

    • z
      April 15, 2019 at 11:32 am

      S & S already has aisle clean-up robots. Customers just ignore them and walk around them. For good or for bad, this is the future. Don’t press your luck union members, Robby the robot is our future for many jobs. I had read somewhere else, maybe MassLive, someone was bitching that Robby the robot was taking away the jobs of the handicapped who S & S had hired to do that sort of thing. Not hiring out of malice but giving someone with challenges a job. I doubt S & S fired any of those people as Robby moved in. With the unions attitude, I wouldn’t put it past S & S to say – privately –
      Fuck the handicapped, Robby takes over where ever Robby can do the job.

  • Fuck Unions
    April 15, 2019 at 11:00 am

    Seriously they’re basically welfare with minimum work requirements. Also, fuck Elizabeth Warren (getting a little dick might get her to lighten up) what right does she have to tell people they should shop elsewhere if I had know she was going to be at the S&S in Sommerville I’d have left some food out to rot and thrown it at her.

    Unions they used to have a place but now they’re just a bunch of greedy assholes who want to get paid to do nothing. They’re all run by corrupt shitbags. Eat shit losers I hope Stop and Shop can get rid the Union.

    • whatevuh
      whatevuh
      April 15, 2019 at 11:12 am

      Anyone who listens to Liz Warren should seriously get their fucking head examined !

      • bigdaddy
        bigdaddy
        April 15, 2019 at 11:56 am

        I saw Liawatha at one of picket lines Probably an accident she ended up in MA as that was the first time she has been here since getting reelected last year Boy MA voter are so fucking dumb

      • Liz Warrens Cuckold Husband
        April 15, 2019 at 5:04 pm

        My thoughts exacty whatevuh. I was supporting them until i saw this cop hating racist cunt give a speech and the stop and shit workers cheered her like a conquering hero. Bet those workers support the liberal socialist dumbocrats. Fuck them.

    • bigdaddy
      bigdaddy
      April 15, 2019 at 11:38 am

      Unions today are just ATM for the democrats. They steal money from the hard working rank and file and give it to shitheads pols like Liz Warren who want to continue to allow an influx of illegal aliens who undercut the wages of the rank and file workers

  • Wade Boggs Taint
    April 15, 2019 at 10:54 am

    You’re right, you shouldn’t have blogged about this. In this case your ignorance of the situation was a detriment to your article.

    • Keep licking the taint
      April 15, 2019 at 11:03 am

      It’s the only useful thing a Union supporter has ever done. Bring back the old timey Union Bashers Batons and Pepper spray will work wonders.

    • ElJefe72
      ElJefe72
      April 15, 2019 at 12:45 pm

      Then enlighten us to the situation.

  • Shut them all down
    April 15, 2019 at 10:53 am

    Stop & Shop sucks. May as well close it down.

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