I have been with Whole Foods for many years now..and the change that has happwnwd since Amazon took over is so sad..
I do understand the need for change..that is thee way of the world..but so many team memebers have left and the morale is not there anymore. Everyone is tired. It's heartbreaking.. :{
Amazon changes at the store level are just now starting to be seen, such as, for example, some price drops and the prime offers and the discontinuation of some discounts, coupons, and sale flyers. (And maybe the marketing team layoffs?) For the most part, changes going on at the store level over the last year, and going forward for the near future, are all moves started pre-Amazon, such as: OTS, a near obsession with reducing inventory, reducing payroll through staff reductions, less floor coverage and cashiers, more holes on the shelves, tons of discontinued items, and the coming massive re-merchandising of the store done by category management team at global. Big changes started a few years ago...remember when the layoffs happened? And the massive cuts in spending? It all had to do with the stock price being in the tank for a couple of years.
I was in a store for yesterday's prime launch in NA. It felt very different. There were new customers asking where the coke was and were surprised when I said we did not carry it and old customers getting annoyed that everything was changing. The elderly folks were particularly annoyed about prime. The cashiers looked miserable. I feel like the shift from wfm to amazon is finally happening.
August 2018 is the sunset date for WFM to operate as "sole proprietor". Everyday Value, the current Prime Deals and the restructured marketing program are the only store level changes Amazon has specifically mandated.
Oh geez! Quit singing “We Are The World” and get your head out of your a--. Didn’t get anything from the last administration did ya? Amazon didn’t buy Whole Foods to solve the problems and make it better. It brought the company to keep what it can use and get rid of the rest.
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Stop watching Fox News and listening to the criminal that currently occupies the White House.
PULEEZE
Doesn’t Amazon operate in the red? Don’t they get Government assistance with shipping costs,etc? They have the same top heavy problems as Whole Foods. What is the difference? Everyone is looking to them to solve all the problems. Seems to me their employees complain about the same problems as Whole Foods employees.
It was already heartbreaking because the company was so absurdly disorganized. I left three years ago but keep checking back here just because I need the entertainment and yes, I still am outraged that a bunch of wholly incompetent regional and global dumb-dumbs still exist in their jobs even though time and again they've proven to be the source of the company's problems. Get on with it Amazon! Find out HOW these people got their jobs in the first place and what they've collectively and individually done to feather their own nests, thus ensuring that the company remains dependent on them instead of responsive to customers, vendors and employees. From poorly chosen locations to horribly misconfigured postage-stamp-sized back of house layouts to laughable third-rate technology and constantly shifting procedures that vary from region to region, the company is a poster child for bad management and ineffective executive leadership. As it was so aptly put in "Mommie Dearest".... "CLEAN UP THIS MESS!!!!!!"
Amazon hasn’t really done anything yet other than lower priceses you have the WF central a-- hats to thank for the BS. Hopefully Amazon will dispose of the upper management cancer that the Central and Regional offices contain.