How much food was allowed to rot too keep the shelves stocked? I’m fine with a few empty shelves if it means less wasted food.
Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages
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Re: Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages
#32I'm a Whole Foods employee, having one of those rare (for me) moments where I can reasonably be considered very well-informed on the subject of a news article, and it's a little bit disturbing just how misinformed and one-sided the article is. The author seems to have talked with 10-20 disgruntled employees at a few stores nationwide, and a few customers on top of that. Maybe she should have reached out to Whole Food…
for someone who is well-informed on the the subject, it's amusing that you offered zero information in your comment.
I gave my opinion on the causes elsewhere in the comments.
Re: Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages
#33I'm a Whole Foods employee, having one of those rare (for me) moments where I can reasonably be considered very well-informed on the subject of a news article, and it's a little bit disturbing just how misinformed and one-sided the article is. The author seems to have talked with 10-20 disgruntled employees at a few stores nationwide, and a few customers on top of that. Maybe she should have reached out to Whole Food…
Can you offer any more insights? What's the reality behind OTS?
I'll add some more info in a few hours.
Re: Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages
#34I'm a Whole Foods employee, having one of those rare (for me) moments where I can reasonably be considered very well-informed on the subject of a news article, and it's a little bit disturbing just how misinformed and one-sided the article is. The author seems to have talked with 10-20 disgruntled employees at a few stores nationwide, and a few customers on top of that. Maybe she should have reached out to Whole Food…
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#35One of the interesting pieces of info from the article is that the ordering process is getting de-federated from regions and centralized in Austin. Regardless of the whether this new TPS-esque system works out in terms of stocked shelves, it will be interesting to see how this affects WF's ability to source local meat and produce.
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#36There's been a lot of bad storms recently in a lot of the country (including Houston, pictured there), which will screw with inventory. Throw the holidays in there too, and I don't see enough data here to draw any real conclusions.
Re: Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages
#37I'm a Whole Foods employee, having one of those rare (for me) moments where I can reasonably be considered very well-informed on the subject of a news article, and it's a little bit disturbing just how misinformed and one-sided the article is. The author seems to have talked with 10-20 disgruntled employees at a few stores nationwide, and a few customers on top of that. Maybe she should have reached out to Whole Food…
> I'm a Whole Foods employee, having one of those rare (for me) moments where I can reasonably be considered very well-informed on the subject of a news article, and it's a little bit disturbing just how misinformed and one-sided the article is.
"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."
Re: Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, BI is a bit of a click farm, but this does sound like a crisis to me. Not for society in general, but definitely for Whole Foods. Even their loyal customers will get disgusted and leave if the shelves are empty.
Funny bit is, Bezos is an investor in Business Insider. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/apr/05/business-...
maybe this is part of the strategy, create a panic at whole foods to generate BI clicks.
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#39I found a Whole Foods out of corn on the cob. Corn stores just fine, so that's quite unusual. But Safeway was out, too. Strange, because the US has a corn glut. The thin-inventory thing is getting excessive. The local CVS has been out of distilled water twice, and only had one pack of small paper cups. All those things have a very long shelf life; there's no need to maintain tight stock control.
> Corn stores just fine, so that's quite unusual.
Frozen corn, sure. Not corn on the cob.
I admit some bias, having started as a farm boy. But nothing is as horrifying as old corn on the cob.
Re: Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages
#40I found a Whole Foods out of corn on the cob. Corn stores just fine, so that's quite unusual. But Safeway was out, too. Strange, because the US has a corn glut. The thin-inventory thing is getting excessive. The local CVS has been out of distilled water twice, and only had one pack of small paper cups. All those things have a very long shelf life; there's no need to maintain tight stock control.
I disagree about sweet corn storing well. The stuff they truck up from further south early in the season is noticeably lower quality than more local harvests.
(in the Midwest availability is pretty seasonal even)