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Comment on UNFI Executives In the Hot Seat Over Wasteful Spending by Darrell Paden

Darrell Paden — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 02:02:31 +0000

What it’s astounding is that the customers, that is what it’s left off them, hate UNFI more than the employees.

Supervalu know how to keep cost like and even get concessions from their unions during lean times. UNFI comes in and terminates 95%, yes really, of their management team.

On my 65 years I’ve never witnessed such ineptitude. Not only will tens of millions be paid out in back pay but they could end up paying employees pensions for life. The atmosphere is toxic which is opposite of the goodwill Supervalu enjoyed with their employees, going back many decades.

The upside is at this rate UNFI will be a penny stock and quite a steal. Comment management can turn this around as it was only a few years ago that Supervalu profits were skyrocketing, their downfall was the Albertsons purchase.

I know some employees that have suffered serious medical conditions as a result of the real stress caused by UNFIs uncaring and illegal labor practices. I can only imagine the kind of settlements that will be paid out when the case is heard by a sympathetic judge.

#UNFIT #FUNFI

Comment on Trouble at United Natural Foods Inc. (NYSE: UNFI) by Mike Braunwarth

Mike Braunwarth — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 05:19:36 +0000

I would say SuperValu is just as bad. SuperValu CEO made a decision to buy Albertsons in 2012 dropping SV’s stock from 40+ dollars a share down to 3 bucks a share. Then 10 months later the CEO bails with a golden parachute worth millions. After this bullshit happened SuperValu never really recovered. Thanks greedy CEO. The end result seems to be selling the company to another one that’s about the same.

Comment on Trouble at United Natural Foods Inc. (NYSE: UNFI) by John Doe

John Doe — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 04:44:26 +0000

I was a non-union corporate employee. The CIO and CEO would stomp around the MN HQ and complain about working as a team, yet the CIO couldn’t name 3 people sitting in front of him in the crowd. This should have been easy as the Supervalu HQ was gutted from the inside out. Supervalu was posed to deliver amazing services to customers for a very distinguishable market advantage, but senior leadership from UNFI didn’t understand how to run a business, rather they understand how to drive the business into the ground. They all came from other companies they’ve driven into the ground like PFG and A&P. If you’re looking for leadership with a clue, don’t look at UNFI. The board of directors should be replacing every executive left in position of power. Where is Blackwells now? Where is the hedge fund pushing to destroy a good thing now? The deal which merged this company was corrupt and destroyed families nationwide. Blackwells should be in jail, yet they’re off to the next activist investor gig. Where did Mark Gross go when he cashed out his SVU stock? Did he act correctly by selling to UNFI? Clearly UNFI can’t negotiate a contract well if they bought such a failing company as Supervalu (apparently), or they’re incompetent and were instrumental in driving it into the ground. Which is it? You decide. UNFI is officially on suicide watch. Who’s to gain the most? BK time. Designed, modeled, predicted. Big picture says BK is in order to squeeze the unions and contracts which are keeping them competitive, and they’re going to blame legacy Supervalu because it’s easy for leadership to point fingers rather than resign.

Comment on Trouble at United Natural Foods Inc. (NYSE: UNFI) by Matt

Matt — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 22:05:26 +0000

I worked 26 years at UNFI and there was a time from the mid-90’s through early 2000’s where UNFI leadership coexisted with the Teamsters at their 1 organized facility. I worked at the Auburn, WA facility during the strike in 2012-13 and that experience was for me a wake up call that it was time to leave UNFI. Realizing where the company was headed I also divested myself of all UNFI stock which in retrospect was obviously a wise choice. Don’t get me wrong, I have no love for the Teamsters and saw how many of their adversarial policies and practices prevented that facility from achieving the level of performance it could have. But I will say, UNFI and the Teamsters deserve each other and both will have an equal hand in steering this ship towards its final iceberg.

Comment on Trouble at United Natural Foods Inc. (NYSE: UNFI) by Mickey

Mickey — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 14:30:40 +0000

I worked for UNFI for 15 years, as a general labour, lead worker, warehouse, and Transportation Supervisor. And it is ONLY now that my confidentiality agreement has expired that I can say that they HAVE NO REGARD OR RESPECT for their employees. They R seen as work equipment, to be used till unrepairable and then replaced. I can GUARANTEE you that in right to work states Scab employees are already being looked in to. I know this because I participated in such training when the transportation team in Washington went on strike about 7 years ago. As their say say ‘ Greedy by Nature.”

Comment on Trouble at United Natural Foods Inc. (NYSE: UNFI) by Eugene E. Bates lll

Eugene E. Bates lll — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 00:56:36 +0000

I was working there over 16 hours a day at times operating heavy equipment.
I was sleeping in the parking lot and lost my marriage.
Oh and double time is something these companies don’t honor anymore.
Un American!
They fired me under false acuations of insubordination over the long hours.

Comment on Trouble at United Natural Foods Inc. (NYSE: UNFI) by Michael

Michael — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 06:31:01 +0000

UNFI reminds me every day how fortunate I am to have worked for Supervalu for over 30 years. You can’t picture a more unscrupulous, greedy, anti-labor, anti-working class company. Supervalu was recently purchased by UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC. (UNFI) Will relocate to Centralia by the end of 2019 closing the doors on its Tacoma facility that has been here for over 125 years. UNFI also decided current labor contracts are no longer valid even though there is incredibly specific language in those contracts that addresses the transfer of work to a different facility. I’m ashamed to say I work there (for the time being) but I am proud as hell of my Teamster Brothers and Sister’s patience and camaraderie given the unreal tactics UNFI has implemented including SCAB LABOR! Companies like UNFI will decimate middle-class wages, lower property values and increase the tax burden on local families.

I will NEVER shop a UNFI supplied store. I encourage you to make the same decision.

Comment on Fleet Farm, Northern Tool, and Toro Face Tough Questions by Steven F Satterlee

Steven F Satterlee — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 15:27:58 +0000

thank you for your help in keeping this in the news, as one of the employees affected by this horable i can only hope they pay dearly for what they did.