Have any of you left and gone to Wegmans, Trader Joes, or other food services? How is the pay, benefits, and general atmosphere of the work environment? Management? Better same or worse?
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A lot of people from our área have gine to work for Trader Joe's and Costco. I work for the state now. (Weekends and holidays off.)
One of the best STL's in the company left the Tulsa store to go to a competitor. Morale is lower than I've ever seen. More experienced staff to leave in the future. This is not the same company that it used to be. Sad!
After a long period of contemplation, I left the retail sector entirely. I was in TMS and got to hear what others who worked for the competition or at other retailers said about benefits, employee happiness and changes to business models. WFM is not alone struggling as more sales go to online retailers I started shopping multiple grocery stores and have seen with my own eyes, lack of employees, cleanliness issues, missing or out of date product, weight and pricing issues at all of them.
i left wfm a year ago, after the layoffs. i was an ATL and was fine, but i could see what was happening. my experience at wfm made me determined to get out of retail/food service entirely. best thing i ever did. there's better out there guys - just have to go out there and get it.
A LOT of people in the Pacific northwest region left for new seasons
Allow me to say. I left this once-great company last year, painfully. I know SO MANY PEOPLE, who probably don't waste their time on a site like this anymore (why would they??), working cheerfully at Costco. Aldi. Kroger. Publix. HEB. Trader Joes! And, other companies that aren't retail but are part of the dreams that these people had before they were kind of s---ed into the whole WFM vortex that took years of their lives. I see this process as a huge positive, even if WFM fails.