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appalachiablue

(43,740 posts) Tue Dec 2, 2025, 01:12 PM 6 hrs ago

The Hidden Horrors of Whole Foods Grocery Chain 🫒 [View all]

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 🫒 [View all] appalachiablue 6 hrs ago OP

How does management find time for an open-door policy? bucolic_frolic 6 hrs ago #1

Yes, with so much pressure on speed and time how are mgrs and workers able to communicate. appalachiablue 6 hrs ago #4

"Metrics," one of the most vile corporate strategies of the past 50 years Orrex 3 hrs ago #10

Sad.. i remember when it started ss mrs Gooches BlueWaveNeverEnd 6 hrs ago #2

Thanks for adding that, it must have been nice then. appalachiablue 6 hrs ago #5

I was IT contractor with Whole Foods after Amazon acquisition longtime WF employees were leaving because of Amazon CIO ChicagoTeamster 6 hrs ago #3

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

So much for customer service! leftieNanner 5 hrs ago #7

Plus one. Bernie has been right for many decades. They called him a radical, liberal .......... twodogsbarking 4 hrs ago #8

As far back as I can remember grocery stores hired an excessive amount of part-timers so that twodogsbarking 4 hrs ago #9

Yes..and I hope their union efforts succeed, pleassee. appalachiablue 3 hrs ago #11

Hope is good. Hope on. twodogsbarking 2 hrs ago #12