This is how you treat your employees... Our whole company is going yachting tomm Tues 6/18! Please be advised all stores will be closing early at 2:30pm (Woodside closed entirely) so we can get to this party on time! It's not often that we can get... — read more
It’s time
Wish me luck...I’m giving my two week notice tomorrow... :(
Bakery teams to get coffee bar at the end of summer
Good luck bakery teams you will be merging with coffee bar company wide. Whole Foods doesn’t learn combo teams don’t work. Good luck making coffee and dumping it every 30 minutes, but make sure you are not going over in your shrink or labor. Ha! What... — read more
OOS scan
Is this the biggest bunch of bull? Some stores cheat some don't but it doesn't matter because global has no idea. Stores that do it the right way get punished and called out on the email that compares all stores even know each store is different.
Putting something positive in here
I read this site often, I’m not sure why, I guess I think I’ll find insight on what’s to come. But it’s always negative. I’m a team leader in the ma region. Maybe I’m lucky? I have a great team. We are understaffed and I have support to hire and I... — read more
whole foods trouble?
Is whole foods in trouble ? Too many people injured on the job due to astl compressing tasks and cutting hours or moving them to later schedules either get hurt or quit .We reported safety issues and close calls but the issues are still there .Can we... — read more
spoilage at the end of the night
I am so tired of when it is time to do “free mania” at the end of the night certain team members hoard a lot of the items that are there. These same team members take anything in the break room that is not nailed down...even if the item or items were... — read more
I'm a cake decorator but my store says I'm just a TM???
I started out as a TM at whole foods and have been a cake decorator for 2 years. My store says I'm just a TM because they don't have "cake decorators" at my store. My schedule says "cake" everyday. Does this seem f---ed up to you? Are any other... — read more
Maximum hourly pay for Tm's?
I have a job dialogue coming up and was wondering what the max pay for a TM is. Also I heard that the raises are now calculated differently. No more $1 raises?
NA thread the return
Deleted again bringing it back.
Whole Foods is America's most expensive grocery chain, study finds
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/is-whole-foods-americas-most-expensive-grocery-chain
NORCAL
norcal is struggling to just keep it’s head above water.current leadership is making wfm irrelevant no new ideas to help reduce labor or to re-focus on customers and team member retention or incentives but as long as all leadership store,regional and... — read more
WFM accepts Bitcoin
http://fortune.com/2019/05/13/bitcoin-comes-to-whole-foods-major-retailers-in-coup-for-digital-currency/
Now that Whole Foods is fixed, eyes are set on the moon
Since Jeff has now completely fixed Whole Foods he's moving on to conquering the moon. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/05/jeff-bezos-moon-nasa/589150/
Yes people
This is the bottom line with whole foods, they ONLY want " yes" people. They push tms and dept leaders to the edge with busy work to make store leadership look good for empty meaningless corporate walks. That's to weed out the people that question... — read more
Annual Gathering
They’ve been renovating our store for the last 4 months to prepare for this event and then this week, with only days to spare, every single Coordinator, EC, etc has walked our store and asked us to completely remerch everything - including the back... — read more
Amazon buying up mall properties
Video: http://newsvideo.su/video/10708895
Culture champions
When is this nonsense going to end. Do any of the the people working at the stores believe any of this. Everything that is on the posters is contradictory to what actually goes on in the company.
Any new closings expected?
I'm a bit worried about our numbers, sales have been going down consistently. Will this put us in danger of being closed sometime soon? This has happened before but we managed to recover. However, that was before Amazon was in charge. Since they took... — read more
Just end TM appreciation week
It gets worse every year that goes on just don’t bother with it anymore.
stl spreading rumors of suspect at store
my stl has spread a rumor from the layoff.com of who they assume is spreading rumors and i heard heard it from the person they left in charge of the store and they eventually said something about it and spread it at store level and all recordinds... — read more
What's happening?
One of the managers left the store last week and was quickly followed this week by two of his favorites. Should this be a cause for concern? I'm hoping he found a better job and took them with him, but I'm also worried he knows something about our... — read more
Harlem stl nyc Store Low morale , dysfunctional stl ,
Worst stl to work for , he has been a garbage stl for years but was protected by those who are now in higher positions outside of the NE region. The days of you breaking down tls ( which you love to do) , firing people for no reason for the joy of it... — read more
IRMA
IS THIS BIGGEST PILE OF EXCREMENT EVER CREATED IN THE HISTORY OF DATABASE TECHNOLOGY. FU IRMA DEVELOPERS!
Stores coming soon
Why is the "stores coming soon" page of our website blank? https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/list/development
NE region
Hello guys, any feedback on the NE region, I’m moving to New York due to my husbands work. Specially any feedback on bakery or prepared foods. Current bakery atl.
Sunday inventory count and Amazon Prime shopping
Amazon Prime shoppers had a terrible experience last night. 80+ orders in the queue. Teams counting inventory so nothing else can be stocked out. Offering replacements for almost half of every order, then having to chase down a team member to confirm... — read more
WFM doesn't learn lesson and opens a tiny store
Why do we bother opening little weird stores with unique features? How are we supposed to streamline when all the stores are different sizes with unique features? New chelsea "covenience" store with build-your-own acai bowl station... — read more
Former ASTL Says Company Policy Discriminates Against Black Workers
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2019/03/20/whole-foods-racial-discrimination-lawsuit/
Leadership
Warning rant ahead: I love my job. It was a conscious decision because I never wanted to be sitting at a desk waiting for birthday cake (or any other carb hit to get my cubicle monkey serotonin recharged until woot woot Friday alcohol binging time)... — read more
First week in April?
What is going on in the first week of April? Some big secret program?
WFM Denies cutting employees hours
"Claims that Whole Foods Market is reducing hours as a result of increased wages are false," the spokesperson said in a statement to Business Insider. "In fact, on average, our full-time store team members worked the same number of hours in January... — read more
Walmart deploying 50 scanning robots
These robots can scan an entire aisle in 90 seconds. Eliminates the needs for SSS scans, never-out scans, and buyer scans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMZM5rMOIPE
FL shoplifter makes the news
https://wsvn.com/news/local/woman-caught-on-camera-shoplifting-from-whole-foods-in-davie/ Funny how some stores actually care about shoplifters.
Paid Maternity leave
How come other companies have paid leave for parents like Starbucks and Walmart and Amazon but we get unpaid leave?
OnePlum is a failure
Your scales will soon be converted if they haven't already. They combined multiple departments together so you can't find what you're looking for. If the price is wrong, the SSS can't even reload it anymore. The MSI can't either. You have to call the... — read more
ASTLs external hires
Has anyone else noticed more ASTLs hired from Walmart and Target? What happened to promoting from within?
Workday.
Workday. No longer available. New sight?