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private:buyersbestfriend
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=653512
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Oct 12th, 2016 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Buyer's Best Friend
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Delivery Driver
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San Francisco, CA
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Driver, South bay
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Very friendly personell and staff
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Workdays are too short need more hours
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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0.0
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NEUTRAL
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0.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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3.0
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3.0
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653512
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Open
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Increase sales
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0.0
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PART_TIME
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No
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Yes
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1.0
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Jan 12th, 2021 09:16AM
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Jan 12th, 2021 09:16AM
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Buyer's Best Friend
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Consumer Goods
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Personal Goods
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private:buyersbestfriend
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=653512
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Apr 21st, 2016 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Buyer's Best Friend
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United States
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USA
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Joke of a retail company
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Delicious samples
Getting to learn about producers
Good exercise lifting Boxes
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Completely Unhygienic
Total lack of inventory system
Lack of basic understanding of retail business
Lack of respect or incentive for retail team - poor moral
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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0.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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2.0
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653512
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Open
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Stick to tech, stay out of retail food.
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0.0
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[]
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No
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No
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0.0
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Jan 12th, 2021 09:16AM
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Jan 12th, 2021 09:16AM
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Buyer's Best Friend
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Consumer Goods
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Personal Goods
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private:buyersbestfriend
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=653512
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Mar 22nd, 2016 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Buyer's Best Friend
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Stocker
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San Francisco, CA
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Waste of time
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At first, interesting and unique concept. The clients are the only interesting aspect of this job.
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After a month, tedious and annoying micromanagement style. Allow theft and con artist a place to thrive. Turnover is high here for a reason!!
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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0.0
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NO_OPINION
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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653512
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Open
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Dont promise what you cannot offer, to clients and employees.
Learn how to schedule properly. Time mgmnt and logistics are critical.
Nickel and dimeing the employees for mileage, time between jobs and not offering a decent compensatiry package is just cheap, not smart.
Learn how to delegate and take some management training.
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0.0
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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1.0
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Jan 12th, 2021 09:16AM
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Jan 12th, 2021 09:16AM
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Buyer's Best Friend
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Consumer Goods
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Personal Goods
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private:buyersbestfriend
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=653512
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Mar 21st, 2016 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Buyer's Best Friend
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United States
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USA
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learned a lot, fun, hard work
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The food business is HARD WORK, wow I had no idea. But the BBF people are so smart and I learned a lot.
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omg, I'm tired! seriously, this isn't a job for wusses.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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0.0
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5.0
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3.0
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5.0
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5.0
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3.0
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5.0
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653512
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Open
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keep up the good work! I know this will pay off!!
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0.0
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[]
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No
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No
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0.0
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Jan 12th, 2021 09:16AM
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Jan 12th, 2021 09:16AM
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Buyer's Best Friend
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Consumer Goods
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Personal Goods
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private:buyersbestfriend
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=653512
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Mar 7th, 2016 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Buyer's Best Friend
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Aurora, CO
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Decent Retail Pay with opportunity for advancement
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It is decent pay for retail. They offer Solid training and have a pretty good management team. There is also opportunity for advancement within company for hard work.
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It can take a long time to climb the ladder to higher management positions. The company benefits are decent. Stronger sales and customer service skills could be taught.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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0.0
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NEUTRAL
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0.0
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NO_OPINION
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0.0
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4.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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653512
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Open
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Offer greater departmental sales incentives and create a better customer service experience by encouraging employees to better assist prospective customers. Offer better company benefits
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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2.0
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Jan 12th, 2021 09:16AM
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Jan 12th, 2021 09:16AM
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Buyer's Best Friend
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Consumer Goods
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Personal Goods
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private:buyersbestfriend
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=653512
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Feb 28th, 2016 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Buyer's Best Friend
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Warehouse Associate
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San Francisco, CA
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gave me my start in the food business!
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After experiencing health problems eating unhealthy food, I wanted to work in the food business and learned about BBF. The founders gave me a chance and wow!! I learned about the grocery business, and after a couple of years with BBF, landed my dream job as a butcher.
The food is pretty amazing - BBF gets new products all the time, often the first to hear about something.
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The grocery business is tough, hard work - it's not for everyone and it's not glamorous.
Low pay, like other grocery companies.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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0.0
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5.0
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3.0
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4.0
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5.0
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2.0
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4.0
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653512
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Open
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Don't listen to the haters! Keep up the good work - the years of sweat are going to pay off, I know they will!!
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0.0
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[]
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No
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No
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0.0
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Jan 12th, 2021 09:16AM
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Jan 12th, 2021 09:16AM
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Buyer's Best Friend
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Consumer Goods
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Personal Goods
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private:buyersbestfriend
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=653512
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Feb 12th, 2015 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Buyer's Best Friend
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Major Accounts Manager
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San Francisco, CA
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Saddest chapter of my pro life
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got to work with some really sweet accounts
lots of responsibility
some good food to taste, largely a lot of terrible food. Like gross vinegars, or chalky and flavorless chocolate with bad marketing
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too much responsibility, stress, blame, expectations
>>>not enough:
no investment in employees> sure, you might get a title change or a small raise, but in general their turnover rate is incredibly fast. So bad it makes a mcdonald's look like the supreme court.
organization> so badly organized honesly sometimes it takes them 4 emails just to check if their open sign is on at their store. This is not an exaggeration. I still have those emails.
belief in the employees> constantly butting into there employees work and slowing us down, then being really snarky when you don't finish your todo list fast enough, or saying you're too 'junior' because you didn't exceed goals while they were bogging you down with micromanagement
taking employee feedback into account> this is a tech company, right? actually, not even remotely.... ask for engineering help and you'll be shot down faster than you can send your email. Ask for supplies and they'll order you the cheapo version that breaks after one use. Ask for team support and they say "email these folks we're paying minimum wage in Iowa and ask them to do it" meanwhile screaming at you for not having it done yesterday
goodwill> ask to try and teambuild, and they'll expect you to do it all by yourself, then criticize the way you did it
PAY> my gosh. lowest pay I've ever received in my life but what did I know going into it that they pinch every penny because they have no funding!
professional courtesy> get ready to receive 5-10 emails in the dead of night every day with requests like, "pls do this silly thing that's not even your job"
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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7.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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653512
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Open
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Remember that every time you push away one of your employees with your careless attitude and arrogance, you have just flushed money down the toilet.
You just hurt the business you say your so dedicated to. You just brought down the morale of everyone working very hard for you, and believing in you.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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2.0
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Jan 12th, 2021 09:16AM
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Jan 12th, 2021 09:16AM
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Buyer's Best Friend
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Consumer Goods
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Personal Goods
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private:buyersbestfriend
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=653512
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Jan 26th, 2015 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Buyer's Best Friend
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United States
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USA
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"Smart" Company with Dark Ages Practices
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In some instances, on the cutting edge of food and big data.
Get great access to awesome food and really cool food producers
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I left a while ago after butting heads with the founders regarding their warehousing policies and a huge headache with pests and spoilage.
I went back the other day to find that, even after years in operation, they STILL don't have an inventory system. They owners are definitely part of the snobby techie elitists group that is part of the blight our Bay Area is facing. As a result they do not trust the input of their employees, most who have been in retail or warehouse management for a decade or so more than they.
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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5.0
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1.0
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1.0
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2.0
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1.0
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1.0
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2.0
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653512
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Open
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Listen to your staff if they have more experience than you, follow OSHA laws and understand that, while you are the boss, if your master plan for a new move doesn't work, it could have just been a bad plan.
Without upward mobility, or a feeling like their input matters, people don't care about your work.
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0.0
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[]
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No
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No
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0.0
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Jan 12th, 2021 09:16AM
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Jan 12th, 2021 09:16AM
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Buyer's Best Friend
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Consumer Goods
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Personal Goods
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private:buyersbestfriend
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=653512
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Dec 26th, 2014 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Buyer's Best Friend
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Operations
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San Francisco, CA
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My heart goes out to the poor current employees
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They hired me without a college degree which is something that has hurt me in the past when looking for jobs.
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Godawful management
Extremely low pay
Uncomfortable and inapropriate remarks from CEO all the time, including ones that pit employees against other employees publicly
Putdowns and insults constantly from the owners
Tense work environment with everyone on edge, overworked, underpaid, stressed, underappreciated
Uncomfortable moral choices (namely the owners asking you to do things no other business would do)
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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4.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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653512
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Open
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Before I quit your terrible company there were about 40 ft employees.
There were over 100 employees that quit on your "quit list". What do you think that says about your management?
If you were people on trial (which you should be) I think your lawyers would probably tell you not to take the stand but you would anyway, and get yourself convicted instantly.
The way you talk to people from your own employees to customers and the public is downright shameful. You need a professional PR company to edit emails to your own company or worse alone clients.
I have worked for many big companies and NONE of them would practice business the way you do, from the way you handle your stores to HR and payrole... hiring/firing, HYGIENE, legal disputes, warehousing, deliveries, company communication. Its amazing to me that educated people like yourselves never take the advice of experts and constantly make rookie mistakes al the while hi-fiving yourselves as if you have invented sliced bread.
What you're doing is selling moldy bread at a huge markup to people, and making your employees miserable while doing it. It makes me sick thinking that there are people still taking abuse from you, whether it's your employees or your customers.
For the sake of the people your still paying minimum wage, I hope your business flourishes and they all get some reward for putting up with you. But if your investors are smart, they should fire you immediately and probably throw you in jail for handling every aspect of your business with no conscience and being rotten people to your employees and customers.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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2.0
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Jan 12th, 2021 09:16AM
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Jan 12th, 2021 09:16AM
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Buyer's Best Friend
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Consumer Goods
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Personal Goods
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private:buyersbestfriend
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=653512
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Dec 23rd, 2014 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Buyer's Best Friend
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United States
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USA
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Micro-managing incompetents
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Occasional free food, though only if it's expired or otherwise too low quality to sell
Good people, except at the management level
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There's no vision for the company other than to rake in the $$$. Unfortunately, that kind of thinking ignores the realities of the food business, and BBF finds itself woefully unprepared for the growth it hopes to see.
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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2.0
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1.0
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1.0
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2.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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653512
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Open
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Get some VC funding so you don't need to manage every penny. Realize the worth of investing in your employees, locations, and relationships.
Stop sending emails in all caps lock, learn the value of work-life balance, and show up to your own holiday party.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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1.0
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Jan 12th, 2021 09:16AM
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Jan 12th, 2021 09:16AM
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Buyer's Best Friend
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Consumer Goods
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Personal Goods
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