Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B
by jimbokun on Friday June 16, 2017 @10:31AM
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"Alec Baldwin spoke on David Letterman about his mother's refusal to leave upstate New York because there are no Wegmans stores in Los Angeles."
Ha, I think that's one of the most ringing endorsements of a business I've ever read.
Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B
by wlesieutre on Friday June 16, 2017 @12:57PM
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Having moved from an area with Wegmans to one without, I can sympathize. They're in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York, but Connecticut is a sad dead spot in the middle.
Wegmans is also privately owned so there aren't "activist" shareholders that want hockey-stick growth.
Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B
by quadrangle on Friday June 16, 2017 @01:39PM
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Same with Trader Joe's, thankfully
And Costco.
Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B
by quadrangle on Friday June 16, 2017 @01:39PM
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Which also has a reputation of excellent treatment of employees
Another example of this is Wegmans -
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/could-this-be-the-best-company-i...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/13/why-w...
http://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/why-do-so-many-people-...
http://m.csmonitor.com/Business/The-Bite/2016/0225/Why-is-We...
“Our employees are our number one asset, period,” Kevin Stickles, the company’s vice president for human resources, told Reuters in 2012. “The first question you ask is: ‘Is this the best thing for the employee?’ That’s a totally different model.”