Fresh and Easy Employee Spotted at Whole Foods
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 19:58Posted By Jonah in category Uncategorized
I saw a Fresh & Easy employee at the Manhattan Beach Whole Foods today. How did I know that he was from Fresh & Easy? He had a badge hanging from his belt. At first I thought he might be scoping out the competition, doing some of that industrial reconnaissance that we hear about. As it turns out, he was just grabbing a prepared salad from the cold case. I tried to eavesdrop on his conversation to see if he was relaying anything juicy back to home base, but as far as I could tell, his conversation was quite mundane.
Conspiracy theories?
By Jonah (see more of his posts). Jonah is the founder of la.foodblogging and also created Digesty, a food blog aggregator and Cheww.com, a spam free foodblog search engine.
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joe says:
December 13th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
I’m obsessed with Fresh and Easy and getting one in Huntington Beach (January 9th). I’ve been blogging on Tesco for quite a while and I’ve gotten some hits from Safeway, Albertsons, Krogers and Whole Foods.
They’re watching alright.
Mom says:
December 15th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Joe,
Where in Huntington Beach is Fresh & Tasty landing?
Chubbypanda says:
December 17th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
He’s an undercover Whole Foods employee from another branch wearing a Fresh & Easy badge in a diabolical character assassination scheme.
hbpapajohn says:
December 18th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Mom…Fresh and Easy will be landing at Beach & Terry. Another location will be opening in Fountain Valley at Warner & Bushard.
Seth Quinter says:
December 19th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Hello people do you relize these people are here to STEAL your money?? They don’t care about you! They could care less. They have what they need….MONEY! People don’t like “glorified” liquor stores! Hello it’s just another Wallgreens, or CVS. ALCOHOL IS THIER GAME!! Other grocery stores are your neighborhood they grew up with you. Tesco aka Fresh and Easy, they came into your homes acting like they cared just to study your habits. Sounds like a grocery store I want to shop at….NOT!! I’m not going to lie I work at a Kroger store but understand I only like my job because of the customers, I love customers! You are my friends my family and most importanty my top priority! I know people at Fresh and Easy arn’t that commited!
Seth
Life says:
January 9th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Hi, I just shopped at F & E yesterday and found the store to be very gloom and more like an upscale 99 Cent store when it comes to it’s food. As soon as i walked into the door, there was a meat display filled with dead beings nicely packaged for all to see?? I dont think I’ve ever walked into a grocery store to be met by such a sight! They didn’t have much at all in organic produce, and the staff appear helpful but also surprised by my simple questions about organics and if they have incentives for those who bring our own reusable grocery totes. I did get a nice bag of pistachios, some rice and a box of Borax but this isn’t the type of store that caters to eco- conscious Green People, unfortunately.
soma says:
January 12th, 2008 at 9:32 am
the f&e corporate office is very near that whole foods, where the nearest fresh&easy store is in lakewood. you can’t fault them for wanting good food while they’re at work.
and to seth quinter - get your head out of the sand. you sound just as stupid as the grocery worker’s union. it’s a store with 10 aisles of food and one aisle of beer and wine. do the math.
also, you’re obviously a union member since you work at krogers - i wonder what your starting salary and benefits looked like. i’m sick of hearing the unions talk crap about this company because they’re non-union when f&e is giving their employees everything a union would without making them pay dues.
Seth Quinter says:
January 19th, 2008 at 1:47 am
10 Aisle’s of Food + a whole aisle of beer and wine. notice how I said WHOLE…sounds like a Wallgreens or CVS to me. But with “Healther Food” Hello food’s not healthy no matter what chemicals you place in them. I’m not talking crap because “Fresh and Easy” has no union. Who gives a crap about the union. I’m talking about our lovely customers who will be affected by this crappy food. Yes it’s cheap in a vacumed package. What’s next tv’s in a vacumed package too? Btw thumbs up for being the first one to go off subject. It had nothing to do with the union. I love customers. They want things there way and thats what I do. At “F&E” everything is prepackaged so they can’t get it any other way. Who wants to buy that? EW GROSS! Processed meats just like walmart.
Seth Quinter says:
February 10th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Why am I wasting my time Fresh and Easy isn’t doing too well here in Arizona people don’t want that kind of food. So I have no worries Kroger is still doing great!
nikki says:
August 6th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Fresh and Easy is a great store and a great company to work for!! I worked for Safeway for quite some time and I was union and they did nothing for me!! I am happy to be at a non union store because I have no problems what so ever without them!! GO FRESH AND EASY!!!
Flex well says:
November 11th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
I work for fresh and easy and hey who cares about a union i have more than eneough coming out my check i do’nt need no mooching swindling middleman union taking my money so they can do for me what i can do for myself
Denise says:
January 29th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
I like the store. It’s kind of neat. They let me ride around in the fat person cart.
Mark says:
March 5th, 2009 at 9:22 am
seth
fresh and easy has no preservatives they are not anything like tv dinners. also they dont have any hard alcohol. They have a small section of beer and wine. Why do you think the food goes out of code so fast. I work at fresh and easy I would know. I can understand that you’re mad because we make more and have better benefits with no union dues.
ps
our fresh and easy store is in an old Ralphs building. thats how good kroger is doing.
anna says:
April 12th, 2009 at 6:55 am
I just found your blog on the google search engine and saw a few of your other posts that you had done . I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the great work. i will Look forward to reading more from you again.
Nestor says:
July 25th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Hey everyone I am currently Applying to Fresh and Easy for team leader, any idea what the face to face interview is like? Or any tips? Thank You!
Seth LOL says:
August 2nd, 2010 at 4:02 pm
What a cry baby. Maybe pastor Dan will save you!