Thread regarding Whole Foods Market Inc. layoffs

Used to be a great company

Used to be a great company, but really started going downhill about 8 years ago. It really started when instead of being the leaders in the industry, and we were, we started being the followers and made everyone our competition. We never worried about what the competition would do but then all of a sudden, we did and became hyper focused on being them. We used to have all the new ideas, then the best we had was demo events on Saturdays. The Mid Atlantic lead in the numbers and it used to be they wouldn't accept anything but the best of the best when it came to their Coordinator team, but then they started losing some of those leaders and replaced them with "YES" people. J.O. kept that team at the top of their game but then it fell apart and the team slowly were replaced by lazy talkers rather then hard workers. Standards fell apart. Company fell apart

Well stated, @nyvm+1mCBACTF.

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I used to love WFM, now I hate it. I am stuck in that spot of too old to get another job now.I don't even trust the products anymore. The hamburger tastes strange now and it used to be the best. It seems like the produce does not have the same quality and taste either. We have gone to a lower grade product while raising prices even more. It is embarrassing when customers tell you another store carries the same brand of something several dollars cheaper as well. I will hang on as long as I can because I make good money. I do my work and I stay to myself and just lay low. First opportunity to find something better I am gone but there is not many places to go that pay a decent wage when you have no degree and you are older. If I had only known......

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Post ID: @1eae+1nqWttjz

they love the "yes men"...the ones that sit around and blab that university of phoenix business language "moving forward in a dynamic real time setting" blah blah...and then write emails about the blab....ideas by the team leaders are frowned upon by regional who press on the stl/store leadership..

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Post ID: @bpi+1nqWttjz
Used to be a great company, but really started going downhill about 8 years ago.

You mean like around the time Amazon bought Whole-Wallet? Yeah .... and you're surprised?

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