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appalachiablue

(43,740 posts) Tue Dec 2, 2025, 01:12 PM 4 hrs ago

The Hidden Horrors of Whole Foods Grocery Chain 🫒

2024. (10 mins). Read the Video YouTube Comments. - More Perfect Union, https://perfectunion.us/

Whole Food workers say they're surveilled, tracked to the minute and have to work two jobs to survive. Amazon bought the grocery chain in 2017. Now it's like "walking around in the corpse of what used to be." - So workers are organizing to form the first Whole Foods union.

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The Hidden Horrors of Whole Foods Grocery Chain 🫒 (Original Post) appalachiablue 4 hrs ago OP

How does management find time for an open-door policy? bucolic_frolic 4 hrs ago #1

Yes, with so much pressure on speed and time how are mgrs and workers able to communicate. appalachiablue 4 hrs ago #4

"Metrics," one of the most vile corporate strategies of the past 50 years Orrex 1 hr ago #10

Sad.. i remember when it started ss mrs Gooches BlueWaveNeverEnd 4 hrs ago #2

Thanks for adding that, it must have been nice then. appalachiablue 4 hrs ago #5

I was IT contractor with Whole Foods after Amazon acquisition longtime WF employees were leaving because of Amazon CIO ChicagoTeamster 4 hrs ago #3

That's sad, employees had their reasons for sure. Thanks for posting. appalachiablue 4 hrs ago #6

So much for customer service! leftieNanner 3 hrs ago #7

Plus one. Bernie has been right for many decades. They called him a radical, liberal .......... twodogsbarking 2 hrs ago #8

As far back as I can remember grocery stores hired an excessive amount of part-timers so that twodogsbarking 2 hrs ago #9

Yes..and I hope their union efforts succeed, pleassee. appalachiablue 1 hr ago #11

Hope is good. Hope on. twodogsbarking 48 min ago #12

bucolic_frolic

(53,504 posts)

1. How does management find time for an open-door policy?

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 01:30 PM

4 hrs ago

Seems counterproductive to all the focus on metrics.

appalachiablue

(43,740 posts)

4. Yes, with so much pressure on speed and time how are mgrs and workers able to communicate.

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 02:06 PM

4 hrs ago

https://www.betterup.com/blog/what-is-the-open-door-policy

Orrex

(66,492 posts)

10. "Metrics," one of the most vile corporate strategies of the past 50 years

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 04:16 PM

1 hr ago

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(12,340 posts)

2. Sad.. i remember when it started ss mrs Gooches

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 01:36 PM

4 hrs ago

appalachiablue

(43,740 posts)

5. Thanks for adding that, it must have been nice then.

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 02:07 PM

4 hrs ago

ChicagoTeamster

(276 posts)

3. I was IT contractor with Whole Foods after Amazon acquisition longtime WF employees were leaving because of Amazon CIO

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 01:36 PM

4 hrs ago

People who had worked there 15 yrs were leaving. We had a spreadsheet with the leaving dates of all the fulltime employees who were leaving. Almost all of their employees were leaving.

appalachiablue

(43,740 posts)

6. That's sad, employees had their reasons for sure. Thanks for posting.

Reply to ChicagoTeamster (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 02:09 PM

4 hrs ago

leftieNanner

(16,089 posts)

7. So much for customer service!

Reply to ChicagoTeamster (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 03:08 PM

3 hrs ago

People are willing to pay more for quality, but knowledgeable and helpful staff makes a big difference. Running WF like an Amazon warehouse just doesn't make sense.

I don't shop there any more.