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Re:Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a cris... by bearcobra on Friday January 19, 2018 @06:42PM (#16190980)
Anecdotally, I have experienced the same phenomenon at several major grocery chains in Canada. City gets hit with a winter storm and Safeway, SuperStore, & Walmart all had empty produce & bread sections. I've also seen it in certain stores during summer months in the run up to a long weekend. Not saying the new supply chain software can't be the cause, but there does seem to be other reasonable explanations.
Re:Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a cris... by kolbe on Friday January 19, 2018 @08:06PM (#16191388)
If those are the companies we should compare Whole Foods to, then I will stop going to Whole Foods and save 50%
Re:Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a cris... by onli on Friday January 19, 2018 @06:58PM (#16191048)
During a canadian winter storm to have more than usual empty shelves is of course very reasonable ;) And I'm also used to having less products available in some supermarkets when nearing night time. The images shown in the article though seem ridiculous to me.

But I agree, absolutely possible that there are other explanations (including that there is no problem at all), but a wrongly prioritized supply chain scheme/software fits very well to the shown and described issues.

Re:Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a cris... by biiirdtime on Saturday January 20, 2018 @03:53PM (#16195368)
Are you from the Fraser Valley by any chance?