Thread regarding Dean Foods Co. layoffs

They put the location I worked at out of business two years after I left.

The most poorly run company I've ever worked for. Parted ways with them ten ago. They put the location I worked at out of business two years after I left.

Terrible customer service and the push to constantly try to cut customer's deliveries. To top that a unrealistic profit margin. That doesn't work for a cross dock operation. Kept trying to run it like one of their plants.

When they bought the location it was growing operation because they had the original owner run it. As soon as they push him out it's only took them three years to destroyed the company. Good riddance to Dean Foods.

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Post ID: @OP+120yDq5Z

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I also remember around 10 years ago top execs came to our plant touting that "milk will be $5.00 a gallon when we're finished with our plan". Well hotshots, how's that working out for you when I can go to my local walmart and pay $1.53 a gallon? Greedy fools.

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Post ID: @1fyt+120yDq5Z

Water in milk = incompetence and illegal
Color additives, stabilizers, and thickeners = intentional and legal
But intentional and legal doesn't really make it ethical. Calling something Skim Delight and selling it as healthy when it's full of chemical garbage is typical though. Also the kind of thing that Dean Foods management tried to sell as what was really going to turn things around. And probably took 5 years between the idea stage and when it started actually being produced.

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Post ID: @hii+120yDq5Z

Kinda like the panelboard ops sleeping at the wheel. Then dumping 1000’s of gallons of water to 2% milk to drop the fat content to make it pass for skim since he slept on job.

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Post ID: @zhn+120yDq5Z

So a thickener for mouth feel and an edible paint for color. JK.
When the chocolate in Tru Moo was reduced a few years ago (cost savings measure) I believe fake color was added to it as well.

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Post ID: @tti+120yDq5Z

It's pretty much just skim milk with stabilizer and artificial color to make it look really white

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Post ID: @izx+120yDq5Z

Yes please share the special ingredients

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Post ID: @cri+120yDq5Z

Now I need to know what they put in Skim Delight.

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Post ID: @kfz+120yDq5Z

About 6 months after Dean Foods bought the company I worked for, I was shown a marketing survey that showed the local brand loyalty was something like 97% and that recognition of the Dean Foods brands was less than 10%. Person who showed me the survey was soon fired and local brand eliminated in favor of Dean Foods label.

A few years later when Tru Moo in store taste test challenges all showed customers vastly preferring old formula so tests then rigged to show opposite. Sales still plummeted, but sales staff given atta boys because region sales didn't fall as much as some other regions.

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Post ID: @gsw+120yDq5Z

I remember when the guys in Dallas said “we will learn how to do business without Wal-Mart” with a straight face!

Oh...and don’t tell the customers what we put in Skim Delight to give it color/mouth feel or you’re fired!

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