PART FOUR
Reflecting on this movement, Jay Childs still can’t get over “the sheer audacity of it.” Childs is a New England Emmy-winning filmmaker and the owner of the production company JBC Communications. He was taken with the Market Basket story enough to devote two years to making a documentary about it. From the moment he saw Arthur T. arrive at a rally in 2013—shortly after the board of directors had just shifted in favor of Arthur S.—he knew that he was witnessing something special. Associates gathered around him “like he was a rock star or the pope or something. . . . They revered him.” Childs was struck by the connection that associates felt with this man. He felt he was witnessing “something historic” and wanted to understand what made ...
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