Team members.. education is the key to rising above Whole Foods. Take the time to better yourself,,, It will pay off.. Whole Foods is no longer Whole Foods... It’s beyond saving.. prepare yourselves ❤️ There is life beyond this bulldhit..
Bakery RTC Logs
Is anyone else using these logs? At first we were using them only for same-day shelf life items, basically just pastries and bread. It actually consolidated the par, rack-up, and shrink processes into one sheet, which was pretty handy. However, this... — read more
more off the floor focuses from tpu failed whole foods leadership!
preassure on tl’s for metrics! but still no accountability for or mediocre leadership in norcal! the change was made to the supected weaknessses made by the margin explaination report and what they could get from previous reports from this website... — read more
wft is up with our new music service?
Our music changed recently and now we hear Cher and Smashmouth everyday. I would expect this from Walmart, but I thought we had better standards.
Life after Whole Foods??
Any stories out there of what the people who have left Whole Foods are doing now,? I would love to hear them..:
Revlar waste!
1 up revlar Sale Vertical and Horizontal going away, 1 up white revlar going away, Orange revlar and card stock going away. At 50 cents a sheet and 24 cents to print seems to be getting expensive. Now we told to laminate again if needed. Lol Also... — read more
Marketing doing an awful job
Can we get through a single sales cycle without mistakes being made with signage. Every cycle emails come down because pricing or the the signs sent to the store are not worded correctly.
whole foods protecting unsavory individuals ?
why is whole foods protecting their high powered individuals from accountability? hold them accountable! expose them ! why do we have all these trainings that are required but people in leadership positions excempt when they mess up?
Regional level layoffs 2019
Marketing, IT, and Finace was restructured in 2018. Purchasing, Data, and HR........ your up!
OTS Scan
How can a Billion dollar company like whole foods roll out a program that is based on the honor system ? These scan are nothing but lies and nobody questions it.The compare all stores together in a region by email,stores cheat to get a desired number... — read more
How’s your bakery team doing?
Hey just wondering how’s bakery doing in other regions, my AC just put his two week notice. He said global is taking over and making All the decisions then blaming the regions when it doesn’t work, bakery n prepared foods just had a summit in Texas... — read more
astl’s sabotaging teams on purpose!
how can ge go about reporting or exposing astl’s sabotaging teams here in norcal team members are calling every day since they don’t want to be here with the astl’s they hurt team morale with their expectations when seafood never has help,no one in... — read more
Thank you Florida Region
We applaud you and thank you for taking Paula out of the NE region. She’s is a f...ng nightmare, backstabbing b..h I’m sure her gum buddy Cristina Minardi help her get the position but I don’t care anymore, I’m glad she’s gone. Her goodbye email to... — read more
I love my job.
Whole Foods is the greatest place ever to work. You should all be ashamed of posting anything negative on here.
Calling out during first 90 days???
Is it normal procedure to get a verbal warning if you call out within your first 90 days of employment even if you use your pto?? Does anyone know the answer to this? I’ve never heard of this before.
What are comps looking like at your stores?
We've been negative since Christmas. Wondering how everyone else is doing.
Meatless Monday discount gone
It's gone and I never even heard of it before today. https://www.businessinsider.com/whole-foods-kills-meatless-mondays-discount-2019-1
What positions do WFM stores have that 365 stores do not?
https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2019/01/17/whole-foods-365-locations-into-regular-stores.html Now that 365 stores are converting to regular stores, what positions are changing? Do 365 stores have SSS, PBP, Demo, Concierge, etc? Mackey said we... — read more
what’s going on?
here at nc it looks like we’re going out of buisness! what the heck is the regional leadership thinking? they are way out of touch from what customers want and not to mention team member morale is at it’s lowest we can go to sprouts and find those... — read more
out of stock reports faked by stores
i was brought up while visiting a sister store that there are teams in the region getting zero get that zero out of stocks when the items were out of stock for days. we reviewed the reports for the stores getting 100 % in stock conditions and the... — read more
New wages n bye bye 365
365 model is gone, all 365tm’s at global received an email that they need to find new jobs, lucky ones will be merged into WF. remaining 365 stores will integrate into WF model, (John M’s email) confirms it too. New wages depending on tm category and... — read more
Amazon eyeing closed sears & kmart propeties for new WFM locations.
Video: https://finance.yahoo.com/video/amazon-eyeing-closed-sears-whole-205502643.html
Any news for xSIs?
People are quitting and no new xSIs have been hired to backfill open positions. Most stores have no SSI since the position was split into MSI/SSS a few years ago. Only remote stores have an SSI now. The stores that rely on the metro MSIs are seeing... — read more
Regional marketing
Something big happening. Are regional marketing jobs gone?
No more Lead receivers
The new labor banding has basically gotten rid of the lead receiver position
Availability
Out of curiosity, who do you talk to regarding your availability if it suddenly changes due to life circumstances? With so many internal changes over so many years, it’s hard to keep up.
Regional offices disbanding
Starting mid April, regional offices will begin shutting down operations and consolidating into area offices. Includes product teams, data teams, tech teams. Few positions will survive consolidation. Don't be surprised and prepare.
How is your store doing???
Is there anyone out there with positive feedback for their stores?
Layoffs
So when do they begin the layoffs for 2019??
Little success for Amazon on the grocery market
No one can deny the numbers, and the numbers show a decline of Prime customers from 2017 to 2018 and a decline of money spent on groceries at Whole Foods. For me that's not realy a surprise. Amazon not only showed lack of any concept but managed to... — read more
No Christmas Coupons!
Has anyone else been told by their store leadership that there will be no Christmas coupons this year for team members like lunch coupons, because the budget does not allow.
SSS audits
How many SSSs are asked to lie on their audits from store leadership because the teams cannot seem to get their sale tags up by 8am? STLs & ATLs... Why dont you ask the TLs to make sure they hang their tags instead of asking the SSSs to lie? To all... — read more
Regional Purchasing is downsizing 2019
I work in the NorCal region as a department grocery buyer. My sister is married to one of the EC’s of OPS, and she told me they are downsizing the regional coordinators and regional buyers at the top of the year.Most purchasing is going to global so... — read more
KRUSE TAKEOVER 2019
Storm is coming.
Clocking in and out
Is there a way i can review my time stamps without going through the ancient old time clock which is hard to navigate? Im just A regular team member and Kronos seems to not work either. South Region
Whole Foods and Instacart are ending their partnership in 2019
https://www.businessinsider.com/whole-foods-instacart-end-partnership-2018-12
Whole Foods Ranked Worst
https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/whole-foods-cutting-food-packaging-with-cancer-linked-chemicals. This makes me sick. I feel like I lied to customers for YEARS about how health conscious Whole Foods is.
Whole Foods Ranked Worst on Packaging with Cancer-Linked Package Chemicals
https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/whole-foods-cutting-food-packaging-with-cancer-linked-chemicals#gs.KuBovmU Which containers are they talking about?
Lamar grievances
Been working three years at Lamar to be unexpectedly terminated due to attendance. If y’all know anything about Lamar it’s that they can never keep on top of their paperwork so its suspicious circumstances that they got me fired and nobody else and... — read more