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HuckleB

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8. That's your perception, and it's all a part of the expectations!

Reply to Bonx (Reply #7)

Tue Oct 6, 2015, 12:06 PM

Oct 2015

Make sure you pretend to happy when serving your customers! Have you never worked in retail?

And then there's the reality that Whole Foods main accomplishment has been to con people into buying expensive food for no actual, justifiable reason. There's just no real there there, at the end of the day. WF is classic Wall Street nonsense gone to its expected haywire end.

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"Employees Are Bitter" as Whole Foods Chops Jobs and Wages [View all] HuckleB Oct 2015 OP

"one of 100 best companies to work for for the last 16 years." Bonx Oct 2015 #1

LOL! HuckleB Oct 2015 #5

Just curious. The peeps at our local WF seem fairly exuberant Bonx Oct 2015 #7

That's your perception, and it's all a part of the expectations! HuckleB Oct 2015 #8

So they're all actually miserable. Bonx Oct 2015 #10

So your anecdote is meaningless. HuckleB Oct 2015 #12

LOL Bonx Oct 2015 #13

Meaningless propaganda there. HuckleB Oct 2015 #20

Everything you disagree with is apparently 'Meaningless propaganda' Bonx Oct 2015 #24

Happiest grocery workers I see out here are at WinCo. Lizzie Poppet Oct 2015 #11

Safeway & Kroger both have much lower employee ratings on Glassdoor Bonx Oct 2015 #14

My son used to work at Kroger as a floor manager for several years. He hated it. Waldorf Oct 2015 #17

We don't have a Sprouts, but it sure looks good. Bonx Oct 2015 #18

Cool. That really doesn't mean much. HuckleB Oct 2015 #21

You're the one ignoring evidence. Bonx Oct 2015 #23

Mackey was an asshole back when he ran Safer Way back before Whole Foods. hobbit709 Oct 2015 #2

VERY right-wing organization. I stopped shopping there when they lobbied against closeupready Oct 2015 #3

Sadly we have to keep learning CEOs who claim their company is beyond unionism . . . brush Oct 2015 #4

+1,000,000...000 HuckleB Oct 2015 #6

"its largest institutional shareholder is Wall Street behemoth Goldman Sachs" Lizzie Poppet Oct 2015 #9

What bullshit. Whole Paycheck was never about low prices. HughBeaumont Oct 2015 #15

Has this "stellar" CEO leftynyc Oct 2015 #16

Whole Foods overcharges for it's food? I'm shocked to discover this. kwassa Oct 2015 #19

they are also changing full-time KT2000 Oct 2015 #22