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Re: Whole Foods workers seek to unionize

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srtjstjsj wrote: post #49
imagiko wrote: post #38

I have noticed that the cashier's have gotten pushy about asking about a Prime account, and very recently about a charity donation. It's a good way to 'make' people donate when asked upfront. I'm sure the probability of people donating increases. When I denied, I was asked if I'd like to round off my payment and have the balance donated. Honestly, it's very annoying. Whole foods is unfortunately becoming an REI store…

That's the new trend in many grocery stores. Someone on HN or Reddit mentioned that grocery charities are actually a tactic to estimate the sign of the derivative of e the customer base's grocery-discretionary income, as a hint of when to raise prices.

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Re: Whole Foods workers seek to unionize

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Post by knicholes »

jdck1326 wrote: post #90
twothamendment wrote: post #64

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Your comment made me search for the nearest one. According to Google Maps, the nearest Whole Foods Market is over 10 hours away. I guess I'll shop Half Foods Market like I always do.

>10 hours away Time isn't a very good measure of distance

In Utah, because everything is pretty much off the I-15, we often measure distance in time, too, as that the speed limit is ~75 most of the way.

Re: Whole Foods workers seek to unionize

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Post by wil421 »

imagiko wrote: post #38

I have noticed that the cashier's have gotten pushy about asking about a Prime account, and very recently about a charity donation. It's a good way to 'make' people donate when asked upfront. I'm sure the probability of people donating increases. When I denied, I was asked if I'd like to round off my payment and have the balance donated. Honestly, it's very annoying. Whole foods is unfortunately becoming an REI store…

The charity donation thing has been around for a while. South Park even had an episode 3 years ago about Whole Foods and the pushy donations.

Re: Whole Foods workers seek to unionize

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Post by paulie_a »

EpicEng wrote: post #124
paulie_a wrote: post #88

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Guess what? You create more business by not annoying your customers and providing awesome service. These poor attempts at annoying your customers means you will have less of them.

Where's the evidence of that? SO you think the people espousing these programs are all drooling morons and would make more money without them? I think you're wrong.

Yes quite frankly I do think they are drooling morons that provide lower quality service instead of focusing on making their customer happy.

Re: Whole Foods workers seek to unionize

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Post by mulmen »

deathanatos wrote: post #46
EpicEng wrote: post #29

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And you'd be fired because no one else lives in the world you've created in your head.

And that's part of the problem. I go to Super Duper in SF, and every time, the employee is forced to ask: "Have you been to Super Duper before?" If I say yes, "Welcome back!" if I say no, "Welcome!"¹. It is pointless. All I want is lunch. Want to see that I've been here before? You have my credit card number… ¹The exact words might not be right, the point is that there is no meaningful difference to the customer betw…

Is using your credit card number for this purpose ethical? Is it legal? Is it desirable?

Re: Whole Foods workers seek to unionize

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Post by 0x8BADF00D »

amphibian87 wrote: post #107
notyourwork wrote: post #95

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I'm not sure this shows things got quickly worse. It may just show Whole Foods employees lost control they used to have but I think you are jumping to conclusions.

Are you joking? This is Amazon, the company where warehouse workers have to pick an item with so little time, they have to jog around the warehouse. Workers urinating in bottles because using the bathroom during non breaks = termination. Oh, and those breaks last exactly 14 minutes and 59 seconds, because anything after is Bezos' time, and you will be reprimanded. While he is one of the richest people in the world, c…

> Unions should quite obviously have formed by now.

Including the eng team. But the problem with unions is that over time they are corrupted, and quickly become inefficient bureaucratic institutions. I agree with your sentiment, but the reality is far murkier than that.

Re: Whole Foods workers seek to unionize

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Post by YaxelPerez »

anothergoogler wrote: post #112
cedivad wrote: post #85

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HN; the place where people use "sign of the derivative" instead of "trend" or "growth".

I was particularly confused by the typo, "sign of the derivative of e", e being constant.

sign of d/dx e^(discretionary income) perhaps

Re: Whole Foods workers seek to unionize

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Post by mr_toad »

zjaffee wrote: post #97
astrodust wrote: post #84

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No added hormones is normal in most countries, but apparently in the USA you need to go out of your way to not do that.

The US also has radically cheaper groceries than virtually any other developed country.

Partly this is due to lower transport costs.
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