Man, why didn't whole foods see this coming? Oh yeah, Walter Robb said it was a fad. I have no less than 7 of these companies now advertising on my Facebook timeline. Not to mention the Butcher 100% grass fed delivery service. Not that all of these... — read more 

All employees under $12 will get a raise next Monday as a reward for coming in and being able to do a semi good job with absolutely zero training. Company to go back to its roots and will focus on customer service in 2017, albeit with 1/2 the... — read more 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/evanston/community/chi-ugc-article-south-evanston-whole-foods-to-close-this-marc-2017-01-11-story,amp.html?client=safari Evanston, Ill. -- South Evanston's Whole Foods Market store on 1111 Chicago Ave. will be... — read more 

'The plan to quadruple its Canadian presence to 40 stores has hit a snag. Planned openings in Calgary and Edmonton will not proceed. Apparently, JM told a news conference two years ago that Canada's store count will eventually reach 40.' So here it... — read more 

there are 91,000 employees, there isn't room for everyone to move up even if they wanted to. Business is like Mt Everest, only a few make it to the top because there isn't room there for everyone and each ;evel becomes more difficult to break... — read more 

I currently sit on about a $20,000 loss. Wondering if I should average down here or just cut the cord. Chipotle looks to be bouncing back and they only sell tacos and stuff. Part of me says someone will take them out at $40, but part of me says this... — read more 

Whole Foods, as defined by all the good things we once thought it represented, is dead. It exists in name only. It has been replaced by a company called 365, which is an appropriate name given that numbers are all they care about. Unfortunately for... — read more 

In the value added cut fruit section, there was a whole foods brand prepacked fruit chunks. It looks like The company is getting ready to axe the in house production of fresh cut fruit.

It's the only way to stop the bs that is going on right now. Team members being harassed and fired. No one getting 40 hours a week. Take a stand and let's stop this !

where will I get my cream cheese and pesto with an 8 day shelf life...or all that brown cauliflower with a 4 day life...oh wait, that's already outsourced,,,,

Did they really just close the NA kitchen with no notice at all or is this just a rumor?

We need to lay off a bunch of those redundant region coordinators who do not do any heavy lifting and send out cookie cutter merchandising plans that don't work for every store in their regions.. I work in the Florida region and the difference... — read more 

STL and certain TLs hire their friends and pre-select people before interviews are held. Openly racist, corrupt, backstabbing liars running this store. Needs a thorough investigation.

Inventory has to be the worst part of the job! The way we go about our system of counting inventory needs to be changed to avoid burning out team members more than they already are. My store doesn't even start counting until 9 or 10pm and there are... — read more 

Can one or two of you out there that actually still believe in this company ..plainly state ...why this company is worth working for at this point ...seriously

That's what you are if you are working for WFM and aren't looking for another job. Don't just sit there and wait until they decide to eliminate your position, close your store, combine your regional team with another region, or fire you for no reason... — read more 

Latest is that Walmart is laying off 1000 employees at their GHQ at the end of Jan 2017. Just wondering as to whose next?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/#nt=mastheadnavbar

why is it some people get a free pass? If that was out team, people would be fired. It will take them the entire year to make this up.

Is it going as poorly as it is in the NA just curious

I just returned from a trip to Salt Lake and thought Harmons was the local Whole Foods! What a job they've done since I was out there 5 years ago!! The you have Caputos....unreal deli, unreal cheese and meat selection...then you have Whole... — read more 

Macy's has been around for a while, so has Sears/K-Mart. They are both closing 68 and 150 stores respectively. The dynamics of retail has changed dramatically over the past two decades. WFM has had negative comps for the last 9 quarters. Just how... — read more 

I hear they are now taking new locations that are questionable and building vanilla boxes and not opening them because they are afraid of disappointing sales. Imagine the cost to fit out a store and let it sit idle until sometime in the future when... — read more 

What was supposed to be attrition has turned into a witch hunt to simply fire people. It seems lately that people are getting separated for the littlest things. That cutting payroll seems to be done by trimming the fat at the top.

This is getting ridiculous. The gap just keeps shrinking between hard working TMs who have worked their way up and those that just stumble in. They used to reward longevity but that was back when TM happiness was actually a thing. This kind of joke... — read more 

Lets hear the story of how the holidays went at your store!! Sales,comps,labor shortages and of course-bad allocations!

WoW. These Commercials are Awesome !!!! I must have seen them 100 times over the New Year Weekend. At least the Company's money is going to important things like advertising while Labor keeps getting cut !!! Smh

We have multiple teams in my store that have TMs from team leaders on down being asked to use PTO to help teams make labor. Meal while other teams are sitting on surpluses close ten grand. TMs from all teams are busting their asses too, some are... — read more 

Is that many of these managers were remarkably racist. I can't name names on this site but at least three of the managers who were fired were incredibly biased towards people who had a similar ethnic background. They would hire, promote and protect... — read more 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-whole-foods-lawsuit-whistleblowing-20161223-story.html I do not believe their claim for one second. As soon as they came to a store they cut labor, costs everything. Teams did not have enough labor to hire... — read more 

http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/dc/employees-sue-whole-foods-claim-chain-knew-about-bonus-scheme/376284464

He's visiting stores, pumping up team embers and promoting his upcoming book on Veganism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/whole-foods-accused-of-cheating-workers-out-of-bonuses-in-class-action-lawsuit/2016/12/21/104dfd7c-c705-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html?utm_term=.cf1501b77595