Lakewinds Foods Reviews

Management from store level to corporate office are completely incompetent; unorganized, untrained, inexperienced, uneducated. The favoritism is rampant; inept employees kept on payroll because of friendships with managers while those with far superior skills and experience are let go.

The organizational changes happened quickly and often. Change is inevitable with any job or business. The problems stemmed from not preparing staff with enough information or tools to implement successfully. This made employees frustrated and only gave a sense of failure versus success. The gossip spread quickly and management only added fuel to the fire. Marketing created a large gap of communication, trust, and business priorities. This issue of marketing not listening to its department management team and co-workers created a negative working environment. There were meetings with marketing team that would leave people in tears. There were days that nobody wanted to go into work. The senior management team was so far removed from the day-to-day operations it was pathetic, Staff would be turned down on requests for equipment, marketing tools, and hiring enough employees. The reason the in-store staff needed these tools: to grow the business, to increase sales, and in-store foot traffic. People tried to speak up about the issues at work but nothing was ever done to change it.