Whole Foods Market: Teamwork And Collaboration

Whole Foods Market’s theme of teamwork and collaboration in their store locations helps them achieve their purpose statement and core values, thus making them one of the “best places to work”. As the “best place to work”, they make sure to put the customer’s needs first, giving them “the highest quality natural and organic products available” which will also “create wealth through profits and growth”. The following helped them become the successful, organic grocery store they are today.
Teamwork is a major priority when it comes to making a store, primarily an organic grocery store, successful. With a team, everyone works together as they have skills that complement each other and collective goals. In contrast, a group has individual goals as well as individual work. If Fresh Earth Market wants to expand, they should form teams instead of groups. Teams would be better for the grocery store to grow more because they would all have the same objective to reach. In groups they have personal or individual goals and no one would be on the same page, which will cause disorientation within the group.

If someone were to work separately and not with the team, it would show in the production. For example, there are 2 workers in the Deli area with a line congested of customers but only one of the employees is helping the customers. Working together and forming a whole would be both employees helping the customers opposed to just one because they are working towards the same goal. They want to satisfy the customers as quickly as possible or they could lose them for waiting too long which will affect their department’s