Valerie Polito has worked at Market Basket for 35 years, spending the last 13 of them as Director of Advertising and Store Operations Supervisor at the company headquarters in Tewksbury.

"I love this company," she said, which is why she's speaking out, putting her job on the line, because of a major shift in company culture, she says.

"I wake up, wondering if today's the day that I'm not going to be able to get in with my key card," she told WBZ Thursday.

On May 28, the Board of Directors suspended longtime CEO Arthur T. Demoulas amid allegations he was planning a work stoppage, an allegation he denies. Since then, longtime upper management members have been fired , which has contributed to a shifting company culture, Polito says.

"A chilling effect"

"What was once a cultu

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