All I have to say is shame on Henry and Brenda for selling out to Pet Valu.
Pet Valu is a corporate, greedy company who does not care about it's employees, distributors or costumers.
When Pet Valu took over prices on everything increased astronomically (some bags of dog food went up by $20-$30!). Staff are also pretty much forced to sell Pet Valu's brand of food Performatrin or Performatrin Ultra, even if a staff member they doesn't believe the food is appropriate for your cat or dog need (diet wise, allergies etc) they are still made to suggest that food first (above much better brands like Acana, Go, Now, Raw food). Then Pet Valu went on to "fire" or force out (many also quit because they could not put up with the terrible values that Pet Valu had) most of Tisol's fulltime employees (who had passion, were hard workers and loved what they were doing) so that they could be replaced with part time employees (they also decreased how much their entry wage was to pretty much minimum wage). They also cut ties with many small distributors which cost many of those companies representatives to loose their jobs. They even went as far as refusing to sell a certain distributors product (even though there was enormous demand for this product) because this certain distributor would refuse to sell directly to Pet Valu (which would have cost even more people their jobs!). They decreased employee discounts, took away staff feeder programs and even went as far as taking away staff water coolers! (really????????). They also forced out one of the most loving and caring district managers, Somani (who knew the stores, knew the distributors and their representatives, knew the staff and truly cared about the staff and her customers) and replaced her with someone who can barely acknowledge the staff within the stores and knows very little about the pet industry (supposedly managed an HMV???)
So there you have it folks! All you are left with is a bunch of part time staff who could care less about your pet or their health (because they don't get paid enough to care) and whatever full time staff are left are bitter and angry because they were betrayed by Pet Valu (who said they would make no major changes). They no longer educate their employees on dog foods, supplements, proper animal care etc (they only care about pushing their crappy Performatrin dog food). Pet Valu ripped the heart and soul out of Tisol and what it stood for and now you are left with pretty much another Bosleys who just wants to take your money. Good job Henry and Brenda! read more