Thread regarding Whole Foods Market Inc. layoffs

Also bringing in higher-ups from other sinking companies and in return they bring those failing philosophies and poor leadership skills.

Florida regional is a who's who of brown nosers,s-xual escapades,incompetence all topped off with an overly caffeinated use of that damn university of phoenix business language..."take ownership" and "move forward" to think in our planogrammed box

SmKC42e-1tqv- Those people promoted to Regional were more than likely the one's that fell into the category of friends, relatives or people who give great interviews but were terrible at their store level jobs. WFM issues run deep.

The opposite is true in NA. 90% of regional were TMs who were promoted up with no formal business training. They have made some very questionable decisions which have cost the region a lot of money.

Pretty much in the same vein as has been mentioned above, much of what has regressed in this company is due to senior regional leadership being so far removed from actual hands on operations at the store level. They have no understanding of the impact of their decision making. Many members of store leadership have failed to speak up because they lack gumption. Others that have then find themselves being under a microscope.

It is most evident in the number of SOP's that have come down in short order. Many of those procedures were being utilized at stores throughout the company but were told to balk as they weren't the "program". I for one had long believed that centralization in many areas has long been necessary and to a degree I still believe that but the loss of labor at stores has been highly noticeable.

26 years with a once great company but the past couple of years has made it clear that the time to send out my resume' is now. It was a good ride, too bad John Mackey lost his vision.

Good post. This is what I've witnessed happening over the last couple years. Leadership with business management and theoretical knowledge, but no depth of practical retail experience, and frequently lacking in emotional IQ. Have seen too many poor decisions that hurt the business in short term and long term. Now what I see is the same senior people covering up their mistakes, shifting blame and distracting focus away from their own misjudgements. Sad, as its stakeholders paying for it, customers, suppliers, teams.

So is so true. It breaks my heart to see what has happened to this once wonderful company. It's downward spiral came from arrogance at the corporate level and too many college degrees and not enough experience.The arrogance of thinking if you have a degree you have all the answers.