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Whole Foods New Employee Regime is Making Workers 'Cry': Store Implements Random Quizzing [Trunc]
Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | February 2, 2018 | Abigail Miller

Posted on 02/02/2018 11:49:41 AM PST by Cecily

Whole Foods has implemented a strict new inventory management system that includes bi-weekly walk-throughs and random quizzing of employees, and has left many workers feeling stressed out and punished.

The new system is called order-to-shelf (OTS) and has a strict set of procedures for purchasing, displaying and storing products on store shelves and in back rooms that is supposed to make stores more efficient and cut down on waste.

And to make sure stores are following the new procedures - stores are required to use 'scorecards' to evaluate each employees performance, according to Business Insider.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: grocery; wholefoods; workplace
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The Amazon warehouse worker experience comes to Whole Foods.
1 posted on 02/02/2018 11:49:41 AM PST by Cecily
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To: Cecily

Whole Foods employees need a safe place to cry when they are told what to do and don’t understand that food spoils...


2 posted on 02/02/2018 11:50:50 AM PST by Professional
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To: Cecily

AMZN may be run by a political liberal, but I’ve heard that if you work there, they MAKE YOU WORK YOUR BUTT OFF.

And that, that is a good thing.


3 posted on 02/02/2018 11:51:44 AM PST by Professional
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To: Cecily

Babies and little children cry.


4 posted on 02/02/2018 11:52:05 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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To: Professional

Lol.


5 posted on 02/02/2018 11:52:13 AM PST by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: Cecily

Ever seen the tattooed, pierced snowflakes that often work at Whole Foods? That is a sensitive group.


6 posted on 02/02/2018 11:56:32 AM PST by nclaurel
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To: Professional

It is also likely that new inventory controls limit how often food can disappear from store shelves and back storage areas and end up in the employee break room.


7 posted on 02/02/2018 11:57:08 AM PST by HapaxLegamenon
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To: Professional

Maybe, but it is ironic to see a liberal cracking the whip over all his worker bees at Amazon, the Washington Post and now Whole Foods. The folks at the Washington Post aren’t happy with their pay and benefits these days either.


8 posted on 02/02/2018 11:58:37 AM PST by Cecily
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Whole Foods Employee of the Month:

People in menial jobs might as well get used to it.

9 posted on 02/02/2018 12:00:25 PM PST by freedumb2003 (obozo took 8 years to try to destroy us. Trump took 1 to rebuild us. MAGA!!)
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“Maybe, but it is ironic to see a liberal cracking the whip over all his worker bees at Amazon, the Washington Post and now Whole Foods”

That’s the point. Bezos is a fraud who uses an alleged political liberalism to hide his exploitation and contempt for pretty much everyone.


10 posted on 02/02/2018 12:01:23 PM PST by Regulator
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To: nclaurel

Yup. They are a distinct bunch working there. And I am convinced that they ALWAYS have to have a Muslim woman with a head scarf on at least one cash register. And she has to have an attitude.


11 posted on 02/02/2018 12:01:34 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (The revolution will not be televised (at least, not by CNN).)
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To: nclaurel

“Ever seen the tattooed, pierced snowflakes that often work at Whole Foods? That is a sensitive group.”

Add to that transitioning people and militant femi-nazis and you’ve just described my WholeFoods to a T.


12 posted on 02/02/2018 12:01:35 PM PST by pinkandgreenmom
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To: Professional

I love the sound of Snowflakes crying in the morning


13 posted on 02/02/2018 12:01:36 PM PST by salmon76 (Russia, Russia, Russia => Clinton, Clinton, Clinton)
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To: Cecily

“The Amazon warehouse worker experience comes to Whole Foods.”

Only appropriate, since it’s owned by Bezos and Co.


14 posted on 02/02/2018 12:02:39 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: Cecily

When I was a kid people in Pittsburgh would sit around bitching about Andrew Carnegie and his labor management tactics, half a century after he had gone back to Scotland and died.

That will be Jeff Bezos in about fifty years.


15 posted on 02/02/2018 12:03:24 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: freedumb2003

Walmart is already testing robots. It won’t be long until there are very few employees in retail stores.


16 posted on 02/02/2018 12:05:04 PM PST by lodi90
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I had a Summer job in a retail warehouse. One rule change that po'd everybody at first was that the tickets started to include a "remaining" number when it hit "5", and we had to stop and count the remaining stock to circle for okay, or strike and enter the count.

That meant that the checkout people had to collect those tickets, and a clerk to check through and make corrections to the online inventory system.

I'm guessing somebody else was auditing the discrepancy list to determine "why" the count was off.

17 posted on 02/02/2018 12:05:18 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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it is ironic to see a liberal cracking the whip over all his worker bees

Democrats ... once the party of slavery, always the party of slavery.

18 posted on 02/02/2018 12:05:44 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Professional

“AMZN may be run by a political liberal, but I’ve heard that if you work there, they MAKE YOU WORK YOUR BUTT OFF.”

Same with Tesla and SpaceX. Musk is a ball buster. Jobs was the same, too.


19 posted on 02/02/2018 12:06:32 PM PST by aquila48
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To: Cecily

Who goes to the place anyway? Who wants to pay a fortune for an ounce of organic arugula?


20 posted on 02/02/2018 12:06:36 PM PST by LouieFisk
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