The Whole Experience

Whole Foods builds human and social capital through innovation, high quality, and outstanding customer service. Human capital is defined as the potential of an individual’s knowledge and actions (Kanicki & Kreitz, 2010). Recruiting the right people and ensuring that employee are properly trained is a long term investment. Training is a systematic process that leads to creativity, innovation, loyalty, teamwork, communication, problem solving, and maximizing interaction between people (Wang,…

The Monsanto Company continues to make an impressive pledge to employees, customers, and investors, as they embrace challenges and opportunities, to make improvements towards becoming a more sustainable company. In doing so, the company uses key principles to ensure that the lives of farmers, employees, customers, and communities are improved. Impressively and thoroughly, the Monsanto divides the company’s website into different categories that include the planet, company, and people.…

John Mackey the CEO of Whole Sale Food, posted thousands of anonymous comments on Yahoo from 1999 to 2006. For seven years, Mr. Mackey had an online alter ego. He was using the Username, Rahodeb a variation of Deborah, his wife’s name. John Mackey typed out more than 1,100 entries on Yahoo Finance’s bulletin board within those seven years (Martin, 2007). On this yahoo bulletin board Mr. Mackey praises his own companies stock, and occasionally talks bad about the “Wild Oats Market”. In January…

The internship I embarked on this past semester was at my place of employment, Central Grocers, Inc., located in Joliet, Illinois. Central Grocers is structured as a retail cooperative, owned by the independent supermarket retailers that Central Grocers supplies. It is the seventh largest grocery cooperative in America and supplies over 20,000 products to more than 500 independent supermarket stores in the Midwest, meaning they have the second largest market share in the Chicago area market. In…

Life insurance is defined as protection against the loss of income that would result if the person who bought the insurance passed away (definition citation). Life insurance is normally purchased by adults and saved for many years. Now what if an adult, instead of purchasing the insurance for themselves purchases it for their child? This has been a big debate with parents, expressing their thoughts through the media, for years. What's the big deal, of parents purchasing life insurance for their…

Wondrous but Fearful Tyger William Blake’s “The Tyger” in Songs of Experience, written in 1794, describes the Tyger as “fearful” while appreciating its beauty. During this time, Blake was one of the first people to see a tiger; this inspired him to write “The Tyger” and paint the creature as a majestic but fierce being. Although the origins of the Tyger are questioned, the creator is referred to as “he” implying a male divine creator. While examining who or what created the Tyger, in addition…

him leaves inquisition into his experience of the world lingering. Through his poetry, like many other poets, readers can extract themes that piece together meanings about…

through our customers such as Whole Foods. Thus, I am a firm believer in B Corp type movements and expect them have greater influence on business in the future.…

Whole Food Market has many strengths in which they need to continue to focus in order for to keep a competitive edge in these areas. “Strengths include those things that the company does better than its competition; strengths are also what make the company stand out and form the basis for its competition.” (O’Farrell, 2015) One of the biggest strengths that Whole Food Market has is that they offers their customer’s a broad range of product offerings such as providing perishable food items that…

John Mackey, cofounder and co-chief executive officer of Whole Foods Market, and Thurman John Rodgers, founder and chief executive officer of Cypress Semiconductor, both successful businessmen, but have very different views on their responsibility to their stakeholders. John Mackey believes in the importance of customer-centered business, while T.J. Rodgers believes that John Mackey’s views are altruistic and only to boost public relations. Though both plans have made their businesses successful…