Someone told me recently that whole foods was like Wal mart. I defended the company that I love. All of the bad press and "whole paycheck" monikers we weather because we loved the company we work for. Drank the Kool aid full heartedly because I saw the core values working and I worked the core values. I drank the kool aid. Now my mentors and the team I've built and the team I've grown to love have a decision to make that they shouldn't have to make. I'm saddened and disappointed by this decision. It's short sighted and foolish to push out the culture we've tried to build for so long.
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My STL had to go some evangelistic drum-beating leadership conference about changing the world -- I think it was in Wisconsin Dells. Anyway he told me they spent like three days glorifying Walt Disney. How appropriate considering the Mickey Mouse way they run the business! Now if you'll excuse me I have to go change the world with the new toilet tissue I bought. BTW he used to roll his eyes and play along with all the BS about changing the world. He walked away just last summer after 10+ years with the company. He knew what was coming.
There will be chapters in economics 101 on what not to do based on this corporation. #TeamWFM
Our STL had the audacity to tell us that we're not here to sell groceries, we are here to change the world. #WFMteammember #TeamWFM
Good points...they also should have started their own organic farms. We used to discuss these ideas and they would have secured job opportunities and grown the brand and the company. Instead it's all about book tours, regional dog and pony shows and stacking the cheese just right. Oh and spending $50 million on a lame ad campaign that no one remembers.
These douchebags have missed the most important revolution in retailing since the invention of the cash register: They still can't figure out a basic web strategy. The best they can do is push Instacart which is nothing more than a shopping service. Harris Teeter has done this for years. You order online and then come in or get a delivery service. Big deal. These executive idiots could be selling everything from towels, water filters, specialized grills and cookware and body care products along with coffee, canned goods and cereal all online. They've left billions of dollars on the table with the feeble excuse that "We believe our customers don't want to buy online." Also they could have been competing with Starbucks with hundreds of coffee houses selling our drinks and foods. They could have built a thousand natural/organic convenience stores. But that requires ORGANIZATION and vision and planning...and mostly, COMPETENCE and business skills. Instead they've been on a mad dash to build full size stores in hick towns and write books about changing the world. Congratulations, no one cares. Quick, fire a few thousand more people, start a new rumor about a takeover and cash out.
RE: ETUbnav-lqv ....What top comping stores? If growth is going so well why are the numbers so bad? Go re-read the litany of excuses at the last excuse festival, aka "post-earnings conference call." Fun fact: Competitors don't just compete for customers, they also compete for supply. Don't look now but Publix HEB and Wegmans just outbid us for organic everything. Don't those farmers understand that only we alone are changing the world? LOL
Any of you cheerleaders paid attention to the last earnings call??? And most business analysts are seeing negative comps for wfm well into 2016..i know in my region we have some serious neg. Comps...florida..
I am really offended by the rude, condescending attitudes that I have witnessed here and in the stores. I hope the next round of lay offs target the heartless, douchy a-holes that clearly don't model team member excellence.
That makes total sense. They should stop opening stores and adding more jobs.
Sorry but what decision do u have to make? U keep drinking the Kool Aid for get the F OUT. WFM doesn't care how u feel..
Yup, they should stop building new stores that end up being top comping stores the next couple of years. That makes total sense.
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