More than 70% of the respondents told Bania that they had not noticed any changes in prices in Whole Foods over the past three months -- even though the company has touted its efforts to lower prices to be more competitive with supermarkets

Noticing more electronic shelf tags are blank or very hard to read. As a customer, this stinks. Why pay $2 more for butter at WF than at Central Market for the exact same product? Lower prices? Shouldn't I pay less for bread since now I have to learn... — read more 

Slice your own bread? Nut machines always jammed with no one who knows how to fix them. Always out of stock on several things. Definitely feeling the losses of good employees as a customer, especially at Park Lane Dallas. It has become so dumpy. And... — read more 

Who will be held accountable for realigning lines of product to one team and then realigning it to another, causing loss of money and labor?

Hi Guys, laid off person here. Does anyone know the policy on using WFM as a job reference? I'm speaking of something more than just confirming that I worked there. I couldn't find out anything from the gig and was given no info. when I left. Trying... — read more 

Why are we paying people $25 an hour to count product? It makes absolutely ZERO sense.

Named Of ASTL. HMO. too bad team members cannot trust the hotline and or their in store leadership. Or the TMS How many people have to complain?!

Here is the thread: @FxlEJRE - so much for Costco never laying people off

Im thinking it was about 2005,when our stock was riding that real estate bubble inflation.we still had pretty good benefits,a ton of full time employees and the company was growing at a steady clip.it has been a slow screw since the bush jr. Years... — read more 

Don't get me wrong - I think one of the great things that makes WFM unique is our return policy. Didn't like? Bring it back. Wasn't what you expected? Bring it back. Feel like it didn't work well? Bring it back. But what about all of those who... — read more 

Pretty much the same thing, they are opening a bunch of smaller stores, layoffs and store closures across the country - it's lively here on layoffs dot com - here is their thread: &wal-mart-stores (also &kmart is closing many stores) - things are not... — read more 

http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-closes-hundreds-of-stores-2016-1

http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/14/news/companies/whole-foods-collard-greens-black-twitter/

Have a store with negative (-) $200K in deep Red Sea Talk as much as possible at all meetings ( sense or no sense)

Publix Super Markets is getting a new CEO after Ed Crenshaw announced his retirement on Wednesday. The company announced that Crenshaw will step down effective April 30. Upon Crenshaw’s retirement, current company President Todd Jones will become... — read more 

Post them here.

Data

Still not seeing it happen..and even on the items that they raised prices on,which inthought would get lowered back to the already high original price,havent changed either...hmmmm..and how much of our good comp years was driven by price changes... — read more 

Those who work in TMS are good friends with the STL and there's a good chance you WON'T be able to keep your job after speaking up about legitimate issues. This is regardless of whether or not you stay anonymous

http://m.fastcompany.com/3055035/the-future-of-work/you-should-plan-on-switching-jobs-every-three-years-for-the-rest-of-your-life

I'm worried about the Midwest, we had a ton of layoffs back in September and am worried about more. Anyone have insight as to how MW is doing in comps, and how it is seen compared to other regions?

Apparently, a certain team of (8 Employees) got 23 cents each in their last labor surplus payout! This is what this company has come down to! Simply pathetic!

Word has spread through the city about layoffs and people who have been here 10+ years getting fired. That doesn't foster the atmosphere of a great company to work for. My team is short 5 people right now and we aren't getting anyone to apply. They... — read more 

Sumpins up buckaroos cause STLs don't get vacay the week between Xmas and New Year's ever. STL @QRY was supposed to open but called in Thursday morning saying, well, that something came up.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-worst-employers-pageant-0107-biz-20160106-story.html

http://www.religionnews.com/2016/01/04/rabbi-whole-foods-gafni-petition/

That's the rumor I heard today, cannot back it up though

http://www3.forbes.com/business/americas-best-employers-2015/18/

What rumors have we heard so far?

Don't look now but in addition to numerous stores in the Atlanta metro, Sprouts is opening up a new store in Franklin, TN just down the street from us. Unlike our dysfunctional organization, they are not stuck with an inefficient, half-baked crappy... — read more 

How much does your store get autoshipped and have to shrink? This is one of our biggest wastes!

TJ is hiring in 2016 here in West Los Angeles

All those ppl that supported new store openings! Complete waste of company resources! Only 10% of those tms truly cared about helping us get on our feet-it was a gathering of Egos- "let me show off how awesome, cool, efficient, goal driven, computer... — read more 

Now don't all of you feel stupid? Starting gossip about nothing. Good job. It should be people like yourselves who get laid off.