So many backstabbing, downright abusive, doubletalking, time clock avoiding, awful managers. The nepotism is off the charts. It's amazing to me that this has not caught up with them sooner. It's about to hit the fan. TIPLINE!!!!

how the f*** do they plan to maintain with such depleted staff? collapse is imminent

Good idea huh? Let's mask our corruption by offering 25 cent coffee to our customers. Maybe they won't notice the decline in good energy, smiling faces and exceptional customer service. As entitled as our customer base may feel, they are smart... — read more 

I thank you all, friends, for posting your thoughts, feelings & disgust about WF and the layoffs. When my position was eliminated (not!) I felt shock, betrayal, sick to my stomach, humiliated, disbelief, anger, etc. I'm not saying that misery loves... — read more 

I'm doing nothing but collecting a paycheck. All the years of hard work never got me anywhere is this sinking ship.

It would be fitting. Chug it.

Coming to a 365 store near you. Eat it up!

All the NE cares about is money, money, money! STL's are allowed to interpret the rules to benefit them and their friends and bullying in the stores is real. I've seen beyond incompetent TL's badger good TM's just for speaking their minds and then... — read more 

I'd be curious to hear anyones experience leaving wfm. I've been with the company a decade, starting as a TM in the NYC stores, moving to a regional position. it's not all peaches and roses at regional, contrary to how I used to think while I was... — read more 

Focus on making your Team Members Happy and not OVER WORKING them and you will bring back your customers. Give them Incentive to up sales, like true gainsharing and not lowering their labor budget every 2 months. Team Members don't care any more and... — read more 

Was it REALLY necessary to have those LAYOFFS? You planned to sweeten the deal with Wall Street darlings and now Q4 financial Call came and gone. Was it really necessary to fire those people and look at them as the ones failing the company instead of... — read more 

http://fortune.com/2015/11/05/whole-foods-price/ They have already tried this approach with it's "One day deals" . It did NOT work. What happened was these special sales or promotions offered a product with a substantial price cut. This product had a... — read more 

I'm a customer of 20 years almost, and here's what I gathered from the call: -WF toadally, really, has the best products being sold -People just don't know how good WF's products are!, so advertising is going to be ramped up -The fancy customer... — read more 

Today's my day off and I am very curious as to what went down during the E-Town Hall. Anybody get the opportunity to watch it? Any details?

What is the most over the top spending you have seen in your time at whole foods? Think team builds, parties. I know the department heads went on a team build to Hawaii in MW.

Going into Thanksgiving my store has half as many shifts as last year. Fresh product is sitting in the back and shelves are empty because of labor cuts. We are getting rid of hard working people at the bottom making $12 an hour only to lose 10x that... — read more 

Without any communication, they just so happened to NOT have the morale survey this year due to "saving money". When asked about it at the company wide Town Hall, Glenda the CFO said "Well that saves 1 team member's job". Blasphomy. What a horrible... — read more 

Report your stories of deplorable working conditions!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/venessawong/wtf-wfm?utm_term=.yjex3ORxnD

What is the likelihood of Whole Foods layoffs in Austin in 2016? Please let me know if you have any information.

New Regional Policy SCHEDULING AND SHIFT CHANGES Because the needs of a grocery store require flexibility, all Team Members must be available to work a variety of shifts including opening to closing for all days which the store is open. As with any... — read more 

One more hour before a tilapia go shopping for yoga diapers.

Even the small vendors are now double dipping with the devil.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/clarkwolf/2015/11/03/whole-foods-trick-or-treat-made-right-here-isnt-stock-slumps/

http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/03/investing/whole-foods-earnings-sales/index.html

Disgusted by the layoffs and having my concerns over the last two years of employment confirmed, I'm getting out despite not getting offered severance. I'm pretty deep into the onboarding process at anther company, and if other people are planning on... — read more 

It seems odd that a few regions are having so many cuts projected and others are saying that no more lay offs are expected in this 2016 fiscal year. Any thoughts?

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/content/365 -- -- -- We believe less is more, except when it comes to our values and standards, and we’re building a place that puts big ideas in a smaller footprint.

So, I mailed my multi-page signature document back to them, a couple of weeks ago and I've yet to get the money BUT my paperwork actually says that they have up to 21 days from RECEIPT of the document to deposit the money. Anyway, I of course did not... — read more 

When will meat and seafood be combining ? Trying to hold out for a severance but not sure how much longer I can last

what's the likelihood?

Floriduh Region here, so on the store level we lost our MKT Team and one ASTL. Labor surplus is close to nine grand for the week. That just seems insanely high. Talk amongst yourselves.

I'm feeling stressed and nervous about the big call this week. Anyone else?

For all the laid off folks that voted for Obama, aren't you proud now?

http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/11/investing/whole-foods-lawsuit-john-oliver-asparagus-water/index.html

Wait for the next quarterly financial report, it's going to be brutal. I am not trolling, just pay attention to our same store numbers...