No. 5: John Mackey and Walter Robb, co-CEOs, Whole Foods
After pioneering the natural and organic foods market back in 1980 and masterfully scaling that concept into a nationwide chain of supermarkets, Whole Foods is now besieged on all sides by competitors and suffering from a negative brand image of being overpriced. Mackey and Robb have lost the recipe to satisfy customers. Shareholders too. The stock is trading near a five-year low. Time for a change, maybe. {copy and pasted from article}
What, only number five? Wacky Macky and Robb deserve to be number 1---the best of the worst!
Finally their hypocrisy is catching up with them.
HILARIOUS! It's about time the business press stopped giving these guys a pass and called them out on their total incompetence. This company is OUT OF ORDER and the only way to fix it is to start at the top with the entire e-team being sacked, all regional officers and their staffs fired, and all regions put under the unified command of a competent CEO. And all these regional coordinators? DEMOTED to order taker. We have a little over 400 stores and 12 highly paid RPs, dozens of VPs and dozens of coordinators? RIDICULOUS! No company can survive by operating this way.
Mackey is too busy getting group hugs from the E-Team and re-tuning his chakra. Maybe Rahodeb needs to go.
It looks like if the Crisis Team will handle anything, it will happen within the next 12 hours, since that's the alleged reason Mackey hired them in the first place.
Or is it? Guess if we don't hear from them soon, I'm going to just assume a few cousins of C Minardi were looking for a job...
this company is absolutely worthless...
Agreed! This is definitely a task for the 'crisis team' I wonder how are they going to handle this?
They say in investing that once it's in the news, it's too late. I'm wondering if such an article is a symptom or an effect of all the nonsense we on the ground have been railing against for the last several months.
Although I have have to consider the source (FOX), this satisfies, delights, and nourishes my soul that the truth about this is leaking out.
I agree they should be number 1. The core values are a joke. I was on the front end and we had to listen to the stl do a rah-rah number at the store meetings..
They should be number one. #wholefoodsmarket
Forbes has a different list.
This is beginning more to look like the 'Mutt and Jeff' show!
Rather surprised they didn't get the number 1 spot!
Well now.....there it is and not from a TM. Quick... call the "crisis team!" We,on the frontlines knew this but had to shut up because this cooperation DOES NOT CARE ABOUT TM. John and Walter shame on you for allowing this to happen to a company that started out with good intentions. GREED caught up with your hippie values. The 70's were good times but the party is over.