You folks might also consider feeling a little sadness for Whole Foods senior management. They have made a terrible blunder as will be revealed over the next days, weeks and months. In an effort to stay competitive and shore up falling stock prices... — read more 

its a business. team members get layed off in order to compete. But why? Stores are opened so quickly now a days. they dont care about their current stores anymore. As long as their name keeps showing up in new places, they are on to the next one... — read more 

Auto scheduling has already started in the north east and there have been MAJOR talks about auto buying for the non perishable teams. Not to mention UES opened using kiosks to order..

I am a CS supervisor In the South. I knew this would happen eventually, but I thought we would keep gimmicking America until the cows came home. Too many incompetents being content with not pushing themselves. This is not the WFM Mackey dreamed up... — read more 

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If they wanted to save hundreds of jobs how about the tens of millions of dollars they spent on find values matter BS. Just to make themselves feel better every store in the chain all made us watch that stupid propaganda commercials so we could all... — read more 

Looks like first thing in the morning for me, what about you?

Something has been brewing for a long time I can say for sure in the north east region. 8 months ago they cut us to one TMS(HR) per store which is ridiculous because at the SAME time whole foods launched us using work day and each store here has... — read more 

Where you at?

the latest and greatest...... PBS is going metro (2 to 3 stores, million dollar stores keep in store PBS) / ISE is completely axed / CD program is axed / all ASTLs have to reapply for their position (sales: 6 = 1 ASTL, 10 = 2 ASTLs, million dollar... — read more 

So the upper - sociophobic- folks that now run the company- minus Walter Robb who is just a baby kisser without a clue- have managed once again to steer the company down the wrong path- just like the Wild Oats purchase- we really needed 200+ stores... — read more 

My fellow SGA, MTL, and I just got called in for an "emergency" meeting with our STL for tomorrow morning. Wish me luck...and a job.

We were all sold WFM BS with the entire Conscious Leadership propaganda. What a complete and utter crock of S*#t. This company has been struggling for year to find it identity. Well the finally found it, a slave to wall street and it's investors. Can... — read more 

I'm just an outsider looking for info on the layoffs and I stumbled across this twitter account of a suicidal man allegedly laid off by WFM. If by any chance you know this individual please get in contact with them. I know these tweets might just be... — read more 

Just beware there are more to come this is just the first round. They could not cut all the jobs they wanted to before the holiday's Watch out in or around Jan 1 next round

I love these idiots (or more likely idiot) who keeps trolling every post by accusing everyone of being a "union agitator". Because no one could possibly be critical of a company about to initiate broad lay offs and pay cuts. Or you know...its a UNION... — read more 

If they want to cut cost. 13 regional offices or palaces from the several i have seen. Also 13 redundant RP's VP's ect.. If you want to save money cut down all the redundant regional jobs. Most make way more than a frozen buyer

I promise you, there sould be no conflictions. I'm a team member from the WFM-SO for 3 1/2 years and my buyer this morning, showed up at 5 am, completed her shift counting backstock inventory, and announce her last hour of work that today would be... — read more 

hello south region here. yesterday was my last day,i took the severance and left! after working my ass off for a long time and getting paid what i deserve,having them tell us supervisors that most of our positions were "unnecessary" was a slap in the... — read more 

What will teams look like next year? Two years, five years down the road? Some longer term perspective would be rad.

I see all these posts about tl, atl, astl, supervisors, specialists etc. What about other administration roles? I heard HR is becoming a metro position now. What about the accounting people who are tasked with responsibilities no one else can do? Did... — read more 

Don't believe any of the nonsense you read here. This is a bunch of garbage being spewed by union agitators.

MW Region here. Haven't heard a thing yet, although there have been a lot of impromptu conference calls with Store Leadership this past week. Honestly, WFM is a company that is failing right now for many reasons. A big one is that there are way too... — read more 

I've been with whole foods for ten years. You cannot walk around all honky dory at any company. It all comes down to the bottom line...profits. I didn't get the ax and neither did my Tm's. It is what it is. A large corporation. Don't be surprised... — read more 

Yes they say this is all about restructuring and they give the team members choices but most of the team members won't have a job there for them, they essentially are firing or asking you to leave. Not to mention those leaving are many talented... — read more 

I think we are all having a hard time because of the complete lack of communication from global. You dragged our asses into a mandatory store meeting to watch a bullshit PR 'whole foods is awesome' video but can't man up to tell us what is going on... — read more 

What is going on with Arabella and Broad?

Were all buyers and supervisors given the chop in the south? I'm in the Midwest and I'm hearing conflicting reports.