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appalachiablue

(44,196 posts) Tue Dec 2, 2025, 02:12 PM Dec 2025

The Hidden Horrors of Whole Foods Grocery Chain 🫒

2024. (10 mins). Read the YouTube Comments for the Video. - 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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⭐ UPDATE: CNN, 'Workers at Philadelphia Whole Foods vote to form 1st union for Amazon-owned supermarket chain,' 1.27.25, https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/business/whole-foods-philadelphia-union-hnk

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The Hidden Horrors of Whole Foods Grocery Chain 🫒 (Original Post) appalachiablue Dec 2025 OP

How does management find time for an open-door policy? bucolic_frolic Dec 2025 #1

Yes, with so much pressure on speed and time how are mgrs and workers able to communicate. appalachiablue Dec 2025 #4

"Metrics," one of the most vile corporate strategies of the past 50 years Orrex Dec 2025 #10

Sad.. i remember when it started ss mrs Gooches BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 2025 #2

Thanks for adding that, it must have been nice then. appalachiablue Dec 2025 #5

I was IT contractor with Whole Foods after Amazon acquisition longtime WF employees were leaving because of Amazon CIO ChicagoTeamster Dec 2025 #3

That's sad, employees had their reasons for sure. Thanks for posting. appalachiablue Dec 2025 #6

So much for customer service! leftieNanner Dec 2025 #7

Plus one. Bernie has been right for many decades. They called him a radical, liberal .......... twodogsbarking Dec 2025 #8

As far back as I can remember grocery stores hired an excessive amount of part-timers so that twodogsbarking Dec 2025 #9

Yes..and I hope their union efforts succeed, pleassee. appalachiablue Dec 2025 #11

Hope is good. Hope on. twodogsbarking Dec 2025 #12

bucolic_frolic

(55,851 posts)

1. How does management find time for an open-door policy?

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 02:30 PM

Dec 2025

Seems counterproductive to all the focus on metrics.

appalachiablue

(44,196 posts)

4. Yes, with so much pressure on speed and time how are mgrs and workers able to communicate.

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 03:06 PM

Dec 2025

https://www.betterup.com/blog/what-is-the-open-door-policy

Orrex

(67,399 posts)

10. "Metrics," one of the most vile corporate strategies of the past 50 years

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 05:16 PM

Dec 2025

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(15,025 posts)

2. Sad.. i remember when it started ss mrs Gooches

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 02:36 PM

Dec 2025

appalachiablue

(44,196 posts)

5. Thanks for adding that, it must have been nice then.

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 03:07 PM

Dec 2025

ChicagoTeamster

(1,268 posts)

3. I was IT contractor with Whole Foods after Amazon acquisition longtime WF employees were leaving because of Amazon CIO

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 02:36 PM

Dec 2025

People who had worked there 15 yrs were leaving. We had a spreadsheet with the leaving dates of all the fulltime employees who were leaving. Almost all of their employees were leaving.

appalachiablue

(44,196 posts)

6. That's sad, employees had their reasons for sure. Thanks for posting.

Reply to ChicagoTeamster (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 03:09 PM

Dec 2025

leftieNanner

(16,171 posts)

7. So much for customer service!

Reply to ChicagoTeamster (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 04:08 PM

Dec 2025

People are willing to pay more for quality, but knowledgeable and helpful staff makes a big difference. Running WF like an Amazon warehouse just doesn't make sense.

I don't shop there any more.

twodogsbarking

(19,366 posts)

8. Plus one. Bernie has been right for many decades. They called him a radical, liberal ..........

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 04:18 PM

Dec 2025

twodogsbarking

(19,366 posts)

9. As far back as I can remember grocery stores hired an excessive amount of part-timers so that

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 04:25 PM

Dec 2025

the company wouldn't have to pay benefits. This is not slavery but there are similarities.

appalachiablue

(44,196 posts)

11. Yes..and I hope their union efforts succeed, pleassee.

Reply to twodogsbarking (Reply #9)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 05:38 PM

Dec 2025

twodogsbarking

(19,366 posts)

12. Hope is good. Hope on.

Reply to appalachiablue (Reply #11)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 06:23 PM

Dec 2025

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