Market Basket (New England)
chain of supermarkets in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, and Rhode Island
Market Basket is a chain of 88 supermarkets in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, and Rhode Island in the United States. It is headquartered in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1917. From 1990 through late August 2014, the company was the center of a controversy over ownership and leadership, which culminated in protests receiving international media attention.