Equal Balance Whole Foods started out as small idea in 1978, from founders, John Mackey and Rene Lawson Hardy. The company's premises is to provide wholesome, healthy products for a better life. The company now “has more than 400 stores located throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom” (Ferrell et al, 537). The company sells manly organic products that are not only favorable to healthy living, they are environmentally friendly. The company has a positive reputation for taking care of their stakeholders, whether the stakeholder is a customer, employee, or the environment. The company is known for taking care of its employees and is also successful in maintaining the promise of quality products. Akin to other successful companies, it does need to pay attention from deviating to quantity from quality in order to obtain profits. Whole Foods by staying committed to it’s core values and stakeholder orientation, will continue to contribute to the success of the company, as long as it remembers not to stray from this mission. …show more content…
Stores are well maintained and are customer friendly. Customers are invited in to sit down and enjoy items at eateries and employees are encouraged to treat patrons as part of the establishment. The stores not only keep up with technology trends, such as social media, they endeavor to make sure products are held to the highest standard. Due to this, the company “was voted second highest from 2010 to 2012 in the supermarket category after Publix” (Ferrell et al 540). The successful rating system, () allows the company to buy an array of products and additionally keep the customer informed on what the product rates in organic quality. Environmentally friendly items are rated for the customer