Buyer - Buyer UNFI Employee Review

2.0
Apr 24, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

High growth product lines, employee discounts and great co-workers.

Cons

- Strong arm, negative manager, constant changes and having to spend an exorbitant amount of time reporting on in/external unforeseen circumstances from current /past events impacting service level. - Never enough time in the day to get to all the emails, reports, meetings, one-off requests and still do ones job at a high level. - A lot of smaller vendors who can't always deliver on time, and the Buyer's carry too much of the burden for managing inventory and not enough say in which vendors are approved and should remain. - SRM should carry more responsibility for making bad vendor decisions and getting rid of their inventory. - Company is too top heavy and IT infrastructure is fragile at best.

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5.0
Jan 22, 2026
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CEO approval
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Pros

Hard work is acknowledged and rewarded Supportive leadership Opportunities to learn and develop Fast‑paced environment that builds strong skills

Cons

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3.0
Jun 8, 2026
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CEO approval
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Pros

You get to provide quality products to independent retailers

Cons

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