Whole Foods Strategic Plan
Planning/strategic planning As for Whole Foods Marketing, Inc. having a strategic plan they are counting on a five strategic priorities to drive long-term growth as competition continues to grow and become highly competitive as mention in an online article. (Whole Foods details five drivers for growth) Their first priority in development where they are planning on opening their 500th store in 2017 and a long-term of 1,200 stores in the United States. The second is that Whole foods is planning on remodeling seventy percent of its older stores within the next years. The stores they are focusing on remodeling are the ones 10 years and older. Their third strategy is revolved around value, their focus is primarily in perishables, they are seeing
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For instance, in Whole Foods each store has ten teams of individuals and those teams consisted of workers who were employed between sevent-two people and three hundred one people. Within each store each team is responsible for a different product category or aspect of store operations such as customer service or customer checkout lines. Each team within the store had a team leader and that leader was the only one who reported to the store manager. “Store operations were highly decentralized with many of the personnel, merchandising, and operational decisions being made by teams at the store level.” as stated in the Whole Foods case. Additionally, the teams had an important role in the hiring process where two thirds of the team had to approve every hire. Every team, however, is evaluated and the teams who seem to perform outstanding our rewarded as a team so it creates competition within their …show more content…
However, they seem only to focus on the change of people through teamwork. For example, according to the Whole Foods Market case whole foods once a year conducts a morale survey to measure employee attitudes. These questions are used to identify the confidence that team members had in team leaders, store leaders, regional leaders, and the company’s values. With this survey it allows Whole Foods to make changes by putting new leaders in teams or rotating the around where they will best fit their followers needs. These changes can be made to best resolve communication skills, leadership skills and
For instance, in Whole Foods each store has ten teams of individuals and those teams consisted of workers who were employed between sevent-two people and three hundred one people. Within each store each team is responsible for a different product category or aspect of store operations such as customer service or customer checkout lines. Each team within the store had a team leader and that leader was the only one who reported to the store manager. “Store operations were highly decentralized with many of the personnel, merchandising, and operational decisions being made by teams at the store level.” as stated in the Whole Foods case. Additionally, the teams had an important role in the hiring process where two thirds of the team had to approve every hire. Every team, however, is evaluated and the teams who seem to perform outstanding our rewarded as a team so it creates competition within their …show more content…
However, they seem only to focus on the change of people through teamwork. For example, according to the Whole Foods Market case whole foods once a year conducts a morale survey to measure employee attitudes. These questions are used to identify the confidence that team members had in team leaders, store leaders, regional leaders, and the company’s values. With this survey it allows Whole Foods to make changes by putting new leaders in teams or rotating the around where they will best fit their followers needs. These changes can be made to best resolve communication skills, leadership skills and