Please understand, I am not supporting or encouraging a person or group to deface the Whole Foods Market company website. What zi am saying is this. Someone responsible for the website needs to make it publicly known that this Company has lost itself and sold its soul to The Man. This company does not care about the consumers (if they truly did, they would be much more competitive with prices against our competitors, instead they disregard the idea and continue to scam customers.) This company doesn't give two shits about their employees. (I refuse to go by the current company lingo of TMs, TLs, and etc. We are now employees and managers.) I've been involved with this company over 20 years of my life. Those of us that have seniority in this company should have a voice in decisions being made. It is because of us, the true WFM TMs and TLs that got this company to where it once was. Instead, it has fallen to the goons of Wall Street and the money hungry crooks. We lost ourselves and our sense of responsibility to our Guest, our suppliers, our communities, and our planet. It's a disgrace to those men and women that sacrificed their lives, time, and money during THE FLOOD in Austin, Texas. I don't know how many are still alive today, but I know the ones that have passed are turning in their graves right about now. Thank you for listening.
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We should call upon the Notorious Group Anonymous. They have done some funny things in the past. It would be priceless fun to see that website get turned upside down. It would be innocent in nature and would bring some Lulz to all those team members that lost their job because of the 1% running this company. Can we start some humor on this board by giving people the option of coming up with NEW Company Core Values that Whole Foods will be following from now on? Make them clever and funny as hell!! LoL
Re: The big Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) technology plan, where we will be a "lab" for a totally untested product from some former Oracle people.... Read this post from last week. Says it all:
This is such a stupid move, you will see this whole thing drag on, drain cash flow and miserably fail. This will take place after tens of millions of dollars in consulting fees are spent. Keep in mind that things like this take years to build, you need dozes or hundreds of people involved and you cannot find any consultant in the ERP area under $150/hour. I am not sure who will be implementing, but if they go with a top tier firm, we'll probably end up paying 200/hour or more, but keep in mind they will roll on dozens of people who will be working on this for years. Consider this - we will be a 'lab rat' here, so they do not know what they are doing, they are developing ultra complex piece of software (does not get more complicated than ERP as you are trying to connect everything, purchasing, inventory, warehouses, finance, inventory costs, sales, collection, bank, tax, etc.) - Anyhow, now we have a player that wants to co-create with us? Are we in software business now, so we are co-creating product? Why dont we just go and buy something that's proven and hire somebody who can come and do the same thing that they did for someone else? That's 20 times more bullet-proof and faster and more reliable and and and... And, since we are co-creating this, I am assuming a ton of shit will be new here, so there will be no documentation, there will be no expertise (who are you going to hire to support and extend it once we burn out all folks working on it). I guess they were not thinking about that. This is much bigger than it looks on the surface, ERP implementations gone south have delisted many companies from the stock exchanges. Each of them is a giant money pit and ultra risky. Embarking on that difficulty journey with a rookie product and software company it's simply ludicrous. I just hope that someone on the board of directors is watching this as this whole episode may bring us down.
Greetings,
I do not condone any defacing the company either as you stated. However, the simple harsh reality is the stakeholders/board of directors control WFM in the newest layoff, restructure and new concepts being driven by the ideals of Walter Robb and John Mackey.
The investment in tenured employees (such as yourself), the current employees and managers might be risky in the face of the newer technology that is being proposed to streamline efficiency, higher productivity, focus on gained profit with marginal shrink, and a fresher approach to an ever demanding consumer. The sadness of the whole charade is that lives are impacted who stood loyal to WFM as they helped to create the vision/mission to create a market that would bring more than a canned good on a shelf to the customer.
Macket is gung ho on the self service aspect of service, for example, in the bakery. Ready to purchase cakes, par baked breads (slow dough providing), ready to grab products, etc. Labor will still be used to produce some items but the overall impact is to reduce workforce with easier access to packaged goods. Who in the current grocery market does that resemble?
Mackey might not draw a salary but his residuals from his invested stock pays him well. 365 brand stores? A great concept...but...to lay off 1600 employees, now writing up employees for various reasons, a hint of another sweep of lay offs in January...
What vision is this now? What mission does this represent? smh
Agreed.
i was just going to say, because it's a pile of shit