"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 and February 2019 as they did during the same period last year."
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I've seen hours get cut, but the tl's favorites not as much.
I am a Team Member My hours got cut but team leader hours did not that’s no fair
I haven’t had any hours cut. What I’m seeing is this: We are being burdened with more and more pointless paperwork, walking around with a clipboard all day instead of working product and helping customers, and we have no additional labor to do it all. If we don’t fill out the paperwork, we get written up, so the customer necessarily becomes a nuisance. The only way my department gets everything done is if we have no customers to pull us away from the endless busy work. Store leadership won’t let us hire anyone or schedule even one more shift per day. The labor shortage results in the trucks not getting put away, which results in product not hitting the shelves and customers walking out empty-handed.
“I’ll be right with you ma’am, I just have to write down how many packs of muffins I’ve sold in the last hour. I’m sorry we don’t have any of what’s on sale, they wouldn’t ship it to us. If you give me your phone number, we’ll call you when it comes in, because people definitely wait for a store to call them instead of just finding it somewhere else.”
This is what happens when companies obsess over saving money instead of making it. Amazon didn’t buy WFM to save it, they just needed the real estate. It’s all going according to plan.
Not fake news. Hours cut in my store in MA region.
Thats probably because the buyer s---s. In my store we get 3-4 call outs daily in one dept alone. And there are lines because of it and it is not because people are getting their hours cut. It is because lazy people dont come to work. And they call everyone up front to bag leaving other depts empty but getting customers out is a priority. So no i dont think wf is cutting anyone hours. I would dig deeper n see how many call outs that store gets and youll truly see the bigger picture. I had a tm said to me hey why is my paycheck short 16 hrs? Hmm lets take a look at it. well u called out three days in the past two weeks.did u put pto hrs? No. Well there is your answer you called out three times and did not put pto hours. Im telling you some tms just dont realize if you dont show up to work you dont get paid. I dont like wfm that much but i dont like fake news either.
Lick on my balls ball lickers
I completely disagree with the Whole Foods spokesperson. I was a customer of Whole Foods in Evanston but have switched to Mariano's and Valli Produce as of today. I went in to the downtown Evanston store at 4 pm on Monday. There were bare shelves in the usual supply of items I purchase each week, such as soup. The quality in the produce section has also declined with items such as mushrooms not looking really fresh, but the prices are the same. They don't have enough people in the store to keep the shelves stocked and fresh fruits and vegetables in the produce section.