A former long-time Whole Paycheck employee in Toronto wrote a resignation letter that confirms almost everything I've ever written about the joint, including this:
"Oh, you force team members to come in to work, on their day off, once a month, at 7 in the morning, knowing a lot of them live an hour away and the [bus] isn't completely running that early in the morning and then force feed them useless updates on the company and embarrassingly artificial pep talks ([Redacted] once compared Whole Foods Market to religion... had to throw that in there. That was definitely a 'Did she really just say that moment.')?"
Yes she did, and so did I. Repeatedly. Check the tags. There's also this:
"Oh, you like to manage "systems" instead of people? You don't hold critical thinking and discretion in high regard? You encourage blindly following rules?"
And there's a dip in the quackery aisle Wellness Center:
"A lot of the stuff in Whole Body doesn't even work or has absolutely no credible evidence to back any claims up. You're kind a faux hippy Wal-Mart now. Great. Job."
And then - preparing to go out with a bang - it gets personal:
"I don't think you could calm down enough and become a happy, tolerable person if you were to do yoga in a hot spring while high on ecstasy. Daily. For the rest of your life."
And then he leaves, happily, stating the obvious:
"Consider checking some of the "stats" and "facts" used in your in store education. They're often faulty logic, myths, misconceptions and lies used by so-called "environmentalists". I agree we're currently destroying our environment and I'm quite liberal and all for natural living. But evidence and credible sources very often disagree with the propaganda spouted to us at Whole Foods. It's just a little too extreme and biased sometimes which I believe just discredits the environmentalist movement in general, sadly."
I knows my cultish outfits, Folks.
Go read the whole thing, the guy's a hoot, and you'll learn a lot,....
Oh, I may -- but I really don't need to.
ReplyDeleteWhole Foods has always been more marketing schtick than anything else (that food they sell? the only thing more organic about it is the lack of some (some! not all!)antibiotics in the animals, which is probably less healthy, because the critters are raised in the same industrial setting as the meat/eggs/milk you get elsewhere.
Same with the veggies -- in fact, you can probably thank Hillary for that -- most of those pristine Whole Foods veggies are the same GMO as in any other field, picked by the same migrant workers, under the same conditions, they may not use some pesticides/herbicides/fertilizers on them, but actually the "natural" stuff they use might actually be more toxic (again, thank Hillary and her hubby for that).
Because nearly all (if not all) Whole Foods food is produced by the same ag industries that produce the stuff going to Krogers (often in adjacent fields).
Of course, this is the fault of the consumer -- if you wanted "healthy", non factory food, you should have gone to the local farmer's market (and helped actual small farmers; although again, speaking as somebody who was in the ag system: you have to do your homework with those small farmers, just trust me on that one), but you wanted your food to look just as "nice" as it did in the big stores, so you got what you wanted: a pretty piece of fruit and big fat lie.
PW