WinCo Foods reviews

Rampant Illegal Treatment of Employees - Sexism, Discrimination, Public Battering, Veteran Discrimination, Rampant Safety Concerns Forget Work/Life Balance Here So Called ESOP is Non-Sustainable In the Long Term I have personally worked for this company for the better part of two decades and oh my have things changed. Family culture is "out" despite what our former leader Bill Long stressed for so many years and the excuse is "we're getting bigger". While we are, the cronies are here to stay within this company. Within the last few years corporate policies have shifted dramatically from a promote from within atmosphere to a get out of our way cutthroat mentality. The old brass that gave us a "family" and 15% year over year growth is all but long gone, only to be replaced by hacks from other decimated grocery chains. They have brought their failed practices with them and day by day I am witnessing the corruption of this company. For those of us still working here, what has your ESOP shown you the last few years? To add insult to injury, the hierarchical structure in place at headquarters has opened up the draconian practices within the trenches. On the distribution side where I am the most familiar it is almost unbearable to say the least. And the accounts I receive from other facilities (oddly especially ones closest to HQ) are enough to make your blood boil. I personally have witnessed video of a facility manager bragging to constituents about his numerous clearings of harassment cases. This same person was just promoted recently to another brand new facility. DK ring a bell? Anyways, if you value morals, family or life in general, save yourself and don't come here. If you represent the opposite then come on over, you'll be a supervisor in no time.

WinCo is on a fast track to becoming the next Wal-Mart, and I mean that in the worst way imaginable. They are routinely taking more and more away from their employees, giving less/smaller bonuses, and drastically cutting back hours, while expanding and expecting harder work and more tasks to be accomplished from their already hard working employees. They provide an unreasonable amount of hours to accomplish an unreasonable amount of tasks, and the employees are simply not being appreciated. It has become quite clear over the 5 years that I've been with this company, that the higher ups and upper management no longer genuinely care about the well being of their employees; all they are concerned with is squeezing every bit of life they can out of their staff in order to maximize profits so they can give themselves larger bonuses at the expense of the laborers, the people who are really responsible for making the company the success that it has become. They continue to introduce and enforce unnecessary and ridiculous corporate policies (such as "Secret Shoppers") that generate fear and stress among the employees. I've witnessed several long time employees (15-20+ years) get canned do to these cold, unsympathetic, and heartless corporate policies; policies devised by new upper management that sees their employees as numerical values instead of people. Once upon a time, WinCo was a fantastic company where everyone who worked there would consider themselves lucky. That is no longer the case. I would strongly not recommend working for this company. To give you an idea of the tone of the workplace, the coworkers joke about how they no longer have a soul after working there; a joke that I used to think was funny when I started, but after 5 years, it seems like more of a factual statement than a joke. I haven't even began to mention the rude, messy, and disrespectful customers that clog the aisles and suffocate you 8 hours a day, every day of the week; which is where the thick hide and patience comes in to play in order to keep a smile on your face while you service their every need.