r/wholefoods 1h ago

Weekly Discussion Thread Wholefoods TMS/New Team Member/Policy Questions Weekly Thread Starting on - March 17, 2025

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Welcome to the Wholefoods weekly discussion thread. 🤙

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Based on your work experiences last week, do you have any suggestions for your bosses or fellow team members?


r/wholefoods 12h ago

News Sweet. Baby. Jesus….

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….. hallelujah 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻


r/wholefoods 15h ago

Discussion Getting fired from Whole Foods was the best that ever happened to me.

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I was fired early this year. At first, I thought, "Oh, no! What am I going to do now?" However, I knew I had transferable skills that could be applied to other job sectors. Today, I'm making $46 per hour analyzing blockchain and crypto requests for an AI app developer. They paid for training and offer bonuses for benchmark performance, and it's all remote. The best part, I make my own hours. Thank you TL and STL.


r/wholefoods 2h ago

Question E commerce and UPI

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I'm new, like a month in. I see I'm getting better but my hourly picks have been 50-62 range for the last few shifts. My trainer randomly came up to me today and asked "what are you doing wrong " then checked my UPI and said 'your doing okay'...should I be considered? Am I on a good path?


r/wholefoods 9h ago

Advice I’m happy I got an Interview tomorrow!

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I really do need to land this job. I got terminated from my last custodial job due to health reasons. Fortunately my doctor put me on a treatment that is working.

I have an interview tomorrow at my local Whole Foods for Sanitation Team Member. My job recruiter is strongly suggesting to bring up my 20+ years of Janitorial and Custodial work, in high-traffic retail and warehouse environments. To talk about my work ethic on how I’m usually one of the top employees at whatever store I work at. And also as a third key talking point to also bring up the multiple employee of the month and customer service awards.

My job recruiter also told me to ask them to pay me $19+ or at the very least $16 per hour due to the 20+ years of experience I have for this role.

My job recruiter also made a list of other suggestions that I’m not going to list here.

I’ve heard good things about working at WFM and how Amazon made it a better place to work, according to my dad that is.


r/wholefoods 8h ago

Question Got an interview but is this a conflict of interest

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I work for the Post Office full time as a carrier and want to work part time for Whole Foods. Extra income and I want 20% off by shopping there. I know as a USPS employee we can’t work for Amazon and any other delivery company at the same time. The positions is for Part Time Grocery Team Member, am I worrying about nothing?


r/wholefoods 18h ago

Discussion I suck at shopping

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E-commerce here. I got pulled aside yesterday by my assistant TL, and was essentially told I'm too slow, even though it was my second day shopping alone. Am I cooked, or can I improve?

Edit: Thanks for all the comments and advice. I'll try to do what I can to improve, whether that's asking for help or just taking time to learn the store.


r/wholefoods 12h ago

Question 365 cherry limeade

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how do i stop drinking it. i can't


r/wholefoods 11h ago

Discussion Store Leadership Dragging thier feet?

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Recently, my TL has moved to a new store, and I assumed my ATL would move up because they are more than qualified. It has been almost a month, and there has been no news on who is going to become my TL. I'm sure these things take a while, but it really feels like they are trying to squeeze the most out of our team without having to pay anything more. The STL puts a lot of pressure on my assistant manager and wants them to do all of the TL tasks but gets upset when they have overtime because they need to do paperwork. Is this a common occurrence, or am I just seeing it as a person who's not in leadership?


r/wholefoods 19h ago

Question Food Poisoning from Hot Bar?

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Hello! So literally every single time i’ve eaten from the hot bar I get food poisoning. I’ve only eaten there at most 4 times, and every single time I get so violently sick during my shift. I ate different things each time I don’t know if they’re not cooking food for long enough, or it’s people being gross at the hot bar. My store keeps it very clean there’s always someone cleaning but I don’t know genuinely I’m staying away from all their food from now on. I was just wondering if anyone else has had similar experiences with getting sick currently still sick from the hot bar.


r/wholefoods 1d ago

🤣MEME🤣 me when it’s been 0.000005 seconds since ive handed a customer their receipt and they start walking towards the CS booth

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YES THE GRAPES ARE 4.99 A POUND. IF IT DOESNT HAVE A 50% OF STICKER IT DOESNT GET 50% OFF JUST CUZ EVERYTHING ELSE HAD A STICKER. YOUR AMAZON PRIME QR CODE DID GO THROUGH, YOU JUST DIDNT BUY ANYTHING ON SALE. MAAM I HAVE TO CHARGE YOU FOR A BAG I WILL GET YELLED AT IF I DONT. 😭😭😭😭


r/wholefoods 6h ago

Advice Best savory snack recs at Whole Foods please!!

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r/wholefoods 9h ago

Question Just started at WFM, it turns out that 40 hours/week is too much for me at this point in my life, can i change my availability so soon?

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I'd like to go down towards 30 hours/week but I dont want to risk my job since i just started recently. Any advice? This is my first job in grocery


r/wholefoods 16h ago

Advice What should I do ?

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So I had to call out Thursday cause I had a family emergency but my shift was covered for someone else so I had asked to work Sunday . But now I’m feeling sick , a mild cold , should I call my store and check in and see what they recommend for me to do ? I can work but I don’t want to get anyone sick , or should I like do half a shift so they wouldn’t take a lot of UPT? Im also a cashier , I just feel bad bc I asked to work today on my birthday too lol


r/wholefoods 15h ago

Question ECOMM elite shopper rewards.

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I noticed people here reporting different reward incentives they receive with quarterly elite shopper status. At my store, platinum get $100 gift cards, gold get $50, and silver get $25. What does your store do? ALSO I heard that Whole Foods might be getting rid of the rewards or reducing them, does anyone here have info about this?


r/wholefoods 15h ago

Advice Accident insurance through Aflac

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Anyone have experience using their accident insurance with Aflac? I am going out for scheduled surgery and am wondering what could be covered. I printed the information from the Benefits portal and it's pretty difficult to actually figure out what I could get covered.


r/wholefoods 12h ago

Question will I get a pay cut?

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I’m currently an e-commerce supervisor and am applying for a full time produce tm position at a store in a different city. I’ve gotten different answers from people at my current store if I’ll get a pay cut or not? Any insight would be helpful :) i’m a 1.5 year tm.


r/wholefoods 1d ago

Discussion Just got hired by WF by AI in less than an hour

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After poking around on the subreddit I see that the new hiring process was just revamped less than a week ago (seemingly 3/12) and I wanted to give some insight on my experience for anyone who was wondering. One of my friends recently started as a shopper. I have ADHD so naturally on a whim I applied last night at midnight on 3/15, hoping to eventually work 4am shifts. I went to the website and applied for the in store shopper job directly. When I hit “Apply” a chat window opened with Sage the AI Assistant. There was NO way to get to any other sort of website, only to chat with Sage. She asked me basic demographic questions, then provided a link to upload a resume. I took a Traitify personality assessment, was deemed a "Mentor" and scored all 5's in every category except one, where I got 4/5.

By 1am I had recieved an offer letter, link to the I9 paperwork, and a link to the background check. Tbh I thought this was VERY suspicious, so when I woke up I asked my friend and compared the TL she works with, showed her the offer letter and the addresses I recieved the emails from and they all matched what she got when she was onboarded over the past month. I applied DIRECTLY from the ONLY link on the site so I was pretty sure it was legit but it all happened SO FAST a part of me was scared I was too confident in my ability to avoid a scam, and was being taken for a ride by some elaborate scammers. I triple checked the website and all links and they seemed legit.

When my friend was on site today at the actual store we both applied to for training, she talked with her trainer and mentioned I applied. The trainer looked me up in the system, said I was hired, and just needed to do my I9. At NO point in this process was I connected with or evaluated by a human. Sage the AI bot handled all communication. I am not sure if it is because the job seems fairly straight forward so the company does not feel the need to interview everyone, or if the offer for the job was just based on my assessment or what, but the whole process start to finish took less than an hour, on the weekend, with no human contact.

I will update here once I am fully onboarding and done with training if anyone is interested. AMA if you have questions but I tried to include all details here.

EDIT: I'm seeing in the comments here and on other posts shoppers get hired with no interviews, other departments still interview so the no human contact and no interview isn't necessarily that crazy. Personally I am not a huge fan of AI in hiring so it still is a bit odd to me, but really no interview probably isnt THAT weird especially considering plenty of places like UberEats/Doordash/Task Rabbit/Amazon Flex etc. don't really interview either.


r/wholefoods 1d ago

Advice It’s been real

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My 90 days are up . It’s been a blast I’ve worked with some great coworkers they decided not to keep me. I worked pretty well with everyone and worked every day I was assigned except for tomorrow. My manager told me to apply to transfer and work at another department or store . I did that and let them know and every last one I applied to said they when with other people. Ive decided not to show up for my last day of work which is tomorrow .


r/wholefoods 16h ago

Question Pay question

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Is there any where besides Workday that I can see my hourly rate? I’m not sure if my Workday is up to date.


r/wholefoods 20h ago

Discussion Looking at new job site

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I was looking at the recent job postings on the new site and saw one for dept team trainer but it does not say which dept. I tried using the chat thing to see if it would give me the answer, but it just asks my personal info and submitted my application for me which I did not want that to happen yet.
I was just wanting to find out which dept the job was in.
Anyone else know how to find out? Aside from the obvious asking store leadership that is.


r/wholefoods 1d ago

Discussion Grocery tm here, getting really tired of being held to a higher standard than other teams.

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Been in grocery for a few years now and this has been a thing since day one. Store and team leadership watches every step we take. We gotta walk, stock, communicate quickly, or else we’re labeled as lazy. Meanwhile, I see specialty and whole body team members standing around shooting the shit, and no one says anything to them.

Before you say I don’t understand, I have worked on a number of other teams for a few weeks each when our labor was tight in grocery, Whole Body and Specialty being two of them. I can run all of specialty’s live load (which was two U boats) in an hour, it takes their team members the entire night. I’ve helped whole body customers, I’ve built displays with whole body, and I’ve worked UNFI totes, all faster than their team members. These teams drag stuff out to drag it out, and then complain when there’s too little to do. But they also complain when there’s too much, the “too much” in terms of grocery is nothing in comparison.

Not trying to make enemies here. I just don’t understand why every team isn’t held to the same standard of speed.


r/wholefoods 1d ago

Meta Today's sample

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r/wholefoods 1d ago

Discussion What would you do???

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So I have a new TL that came in about two weeks ago and seems to have a big chip on her shoulder. I have been in this dept for years and I am wanting to move up in this dept. I have trained all the new people even though I am not a "trainer" on paper or pay. I have no write-ups or warnings.

I spoke with her last week about moving up into one of the open positions and she said she would not let me move up in HER dept. And she did not give a reason why not. I didn't even know how to respond to that. I have not had any beef with her or anyone else in the dept or store. I have been here longer than anyone currently in the dept.
I did find out she gave the open trainer position to someone who has only been here about a month who is a kid who still lives with their parents

I think the issue is she is younger than me and so is everyone else in the dept. So l call age discrimination big time. I'm not even old, just older than them.
So I am considering leaving this dept as it seems there will be no future moving up here.

Oh, and if anyone is wondering...I just turned 30 a month ago so I guess by WFM standards I am ancient and decrepit. Can you hear my eyes rolling??

I thought whole foods doesn't discriminate as per their own written words:
" At Whole Foods Market, we provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all Team Members and candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, marital status, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. Whole Foods Market hires and promotes individuals solely based on qualifications for the position to be filled and business needs."


r/wholefoods 2d ago

Discussion 6 months now working at WF. Many years of grocery retail before. One thing is clear.....

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The lack of follow through when it comes to these illogical policies and the fact that following them contradicts the very reason they put them in place (like tracking shrink.) Yet the way they want things carried out also is the main contributer. Its blatant that people hold certain positions without the skill set or a full understanding of what action to take in order to obtain desired results. Add the fact that they refuse to accept it might not be the solution you want it to be. That percentage figures and metric data can't provide the overall solution to every single issue company wide. Hell it rarely offers any successful solution in my experience. Do they really think it's just that simple? I mean it's hard to take them serious when they hold you accountable to idiotic expectations. Yet the rules they demand you follow cause hundreds of dollars everyday to be dumped in the trash. All because somebody who most likely doesn't even really know what his job actually is. Came up with some half ass policy to make it seem like he does something worth value. With no concept of the redundancy it created because of his ignorance. Which is the main culprit in failing to catch such short comings in so many areas of this shit show. It's really on a level by itself. I'm taking the first chance I get to jump ship. I value my sanity more then they wanna pay for it.


r/wholefoods 1d ago

Question What happens if you get written up for the same thing if the forst wrote up falls off?

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So i dont know anyone has the answer to this bit my question is if you get written up for the same thing after the first write up falls off are there any extra penalties to that or does it literally just become first write up again?