After our discussion during Lecture $4,$ please provide a reaction piece to $$We Are Market Basket!$$

Please answer the following questions, incorporating your opinions as both a Business Professional and a Consumer! It is important as you grow to consider both sides of the coin, so please think about the effects on both the employees and the customers $($both cultural and economic$)$ when answering the questions:

What makes Market Basket different than a lot of its competitors? $(20$ points$)$

What makes its business model successful? $(20$ points$)$

Why did the firing of Arthur T$.$ create such a reaction from employees, customers, and vendors? $(20$ points$)$

What made the collective action of the employees$$ work? $(20$ points$)$

Recommended Length:

$1$ page per problem $(4$ pages in total$)($size $12$ font, $1\mathrm{.}5$ line spacing$),$ with a focus on Operations Managements aspects of the issues $$ but not necessarily exclusively as this is a holistic business case.

It is also important, that we as business professionals grow from the experience of others, so consider what the appropriate takeaways from the case would be for the following parties: $(40$ points$)$

What should unions learn from this case?

What should business leaders take away from this case?

What should government policy officials learn from this case?

What should Business School leaders$/$teachers take away from this case?

Recommended Length:

$2$ pages $($size $12$ font, $1\mathrm{.}5$ line spacing$),$ with a focus on Operations Management aspects of the issues $$ but not necessarily exclusively as this is a holistic business case.