UNFI reviews

3.0

42% would recommend to a friend

(2,369 total reviews)
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J. Alexander (Sandy) Miller Douglas

42% approve of CEO

30% positive business outlook

UNFI has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,369 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The UNFI employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Jun 14, 2016

Stressful, soul-sucking, thankless work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The benefits are pretty good: vision, dental, health insurance, life insurance, flex spend accounts. That is really the only pro for this company.

Cons

If you don't fit within the company's "health" requirements you pay almost double or triple more for your insurance than other people. Archaic Linux based system that creates a lot of time consuming tasks to get even basic information. The sales team constantly gets customers to sign contracts for things that literally cannot be done due to the scripting limitations of the system because they never check with the team that actually does the work. Constantly needing to find band-aid fixes to try and meet unrealistic demands. Upper and senior management never listen to the hard workers when we caution against blatant profit-losing opportunities, then complain that we are losing margin. Management seem to only be looking for "yes"-men and do not care for accuracy, or due diligence. Overtime is almost mandatory, but at the same time you can't go over 4 hours in a pay period. So how are you supposed to finish 60 hours of work in 40 hours with only a 4 hour overtime limit?

1.0
Mar 26, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Discounts on natural and organic food but you need to buy a case of most items. Encouraged to volunteer in the community and to give blood at the blood drive. Workers are dedicated and hard working. Some managers are really wonderful. Nice HR staff.

Cons

Cog in the machine. Huge machine. Horrible Penalty points in place. Good employees miss out on parent/teacher conferences -- basic doctor appts -- can't leave work early for children's school events -- employees feel they have to get to work through huge snow storms --- leaving work early is a whole point penalty. If you are late you will get a 1/2 point. You get two points for being sick on a Monday. You are 'awarded' a point for being sick on T, W, Th or Friday. They have employees coming to work sick or even with the flu so as not to get too many points. Good employees are fired b/c of their 'points'. NOT family friendly as you are made to feel you can't be out for your illness or your child's illness. I know many good people driving to work too fast so as not to get points. Moral is poor. Positions are often limited to a very set boundaries. Not intellectually challenged. Some manager are good but many managers are not qualified and are micro-managing.

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