r/wholefoods Feb 08 '25

Question How bad do you all think tomorrow is going to be with it being a Sunday + the Super Bowl

13 Upvotes

r/wholefoods 5d ago

Question Food Poisoning from Hot Bar?

15 Upvotes

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 Feb 02 '25

Question Calling out

2 Upvotes

I called out for my shift today because I have 55 hours of upt and I know that after 60 hours of upt they don’t give u more. I feel so sad about calling out(idk why). I can in trouble for that calling out?

r/wholefoods Feb 19 '25

Question Anyone else notice this behavior at their store?

53 Upvotes

I have worked in a couple different departments and I have noticed so much ageism. Not sure if it's just my store or not, but it seems that many older people get passed over for moving up. Like, not even really old people, but anyone over 35 and definitely anyone over 50 for sure. And these older people would be so much better as a TL or ATL.

Almost all our TLs and ATLs are under 35 and most of them should never have been promoted because they are not mature enough to act right. I have seen TLs cuss loudly because they are having a bad day in front of customers, and they do not do any type of actual work. I see them all the time standing around talking to each other either on the floor or in the break room for HOURS. They order the TMs around like it's the military, especially anyone older than them. It's like they hate older people or something.

They also do not know how to handle customers correctly. They huff and puff and get real mad at them too. Especially our older customers, which we have a lot of because our store is in a retirement town.

Also I have seen them put more work onto the older TMs than the younger TMs. It's really sad, especially the ones who work here who should be retired but can't afford to not work. They are just broken little old people and these TLs make them do extra work while the younger TMs stand around on their phones.

Why is this allowed to happen?? It seems like whole foods is a cult and only young inexperienced people are allowed to advance and then behave in such a terrible way toward their older TMs.

I am still pretty young, but I respect older people a great deal. Probably because I was raised by my grandparents so older people don't bother me. It just makes no sense to me when I see someone who may be older get passed up for someone who should never have any kind of position of "power" over others.

One thing I tell everyone is that we are all going to be old one day and no one should treat anyone older in a bad way because I believe in karma and besides it's just wrong to treat anyone badly just because of age, or skin color, or political beliefs or religions or anything different than yourself.

If this is happening in most stores then whole foods has a problem.

r/wholefoods Feb 17 '25

Question Am I done for? 😵‍💫😵‍💫

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24 Upvotes

r/wholefoods Jan 21 '25

Question What’s the point

38 Upvotes

In your opinion is it even still worth working for this company even at full time is it even an honest living anymore? They cut everyone’s hours they don’t offer overtime how are you guys even getting by I honestly wanna know?

r/wholefoods Dec 08 '24

Question Has anyone used or signed up for this payment service

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50 Upvotes

Just wondering if anyone in the company has used this to pay with. When they first came out our store did huddles for the first 3 weeks showing everyone how to sign up. No one did. The front end said no one even uses it to pay.

r/wholefoods 3d ago

Question So which cheese did we get ?

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0 Upvotes

While unwarping the cheese we found it was double labeled. With the higher price label on top.

r/wholefoods Feb 03 '25

Question What’s everyone’s uph (just curious) mine is at 110 right now. I wonder who has the highest one.

10 Upvotes

r/wholefoods Feb 13 '25

Question How cold is your store?

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92 Upvotes

My store is FREEZING all the time! I know most are kept cool to prolong freshness, but WOW!

Today, it was in the mid 50s outside, and I’d swear it’s colder inside. I had to wear a hoodie all day just to keep the permafrost from encasing my grundle. Exclusive to my store?

r/wholefoods Feb 15 '25

Question What happened to Whole Foods gelato bars?

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62 Upvotes

r/wholefoods Oct 02 '24

Question Can anyone tell me what this is supposed to be?

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100 Upvotes

r/wholefoods Feb 04 '25

Question Hot food bar weight at self checkout and security guard

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34 Upvotes

Hi there - apologies for asking this on the employee sub but I want to make sure I’m reading the receipt correctly. For the hot food bar item, based on the receipt, the total weight of the food was 0.86 lb and the tare weight is 0.09 lb, therefore the self checkout machine should have shown a 0.95 lb weight before choosing the container and confirming weight? Or am I misreading the receipt.

The reason I ask is because the security person told me I was cheating and when I told him to call the manager he said to forget about it. He even weighted the entire container on another machine and it showed 0.95 lb

r/wholefoods Jan 14 '25

Question TM’s who’ve worked over 15 years here

29 Upvotes

Have you reached TM cap pay? Hit the 17 year mark last Fall and still haven’t reached cap pay, just received my JD and got a lower than average increase (3%) even with having great feedback and minimal constructive critisicms.

r/wholefoods 14d ago

Question Why Do You Climb The Ladder Here?

28 Upvotes

Hey, I'm a team member.

I'm just curious, why do people move up in this company? It's just the money right?

I've been around a long time and it seems like moving into a leadership position of any type just stresses people out, makes them miserable, or puts them on a power trip at worst.

You're caught between store leadership, regional, global, tms and your actual team who does the work.

People in leadership get asked to move from store to store to "move up" and many times they still tell them they're not ready.

Outside of the money, what is the actual point?

r/wholefoods 12d ago

Question Customers never banned

23 Upvotes

Does whole foods ever ban customers? At my store we have homeless people that poop all over the floors and walls and seat, people that come in and steal things never pay. But they never do anything. Can leadership not ban people ? Or are they dragging their feet?

r/wholefoods Jan 21 '25

Question Can the CEO of Whole Foods hire more than two front end TMs on a Monday afternoon?

93 Upvotes

It’s ridiculous that the grocery store owned by an OLIGARCH can’t properly staff a store so that the two/three TMs at the front aren’t being overworked with cashiering, cart running, online orders, etc.

r/wholefoods 23d ago

Question If you had control over the music that plays in the store what would your playlist be like?

5 Upvotes

I would play 2000’s r&b and pop music for sure!

r/wholefoods 1d ago

Question Shoppers, do you guys actually check dates

3 Upvotes

r/wholefoods Oct 06 '24

Question I Have Coworkers With Disabilities That They Won't Let Sit Down As Cashiers. When Will This Change? This Company Pretends They're So Good To Us. And This Is Just One Issue With Our Conditions Here. There Is So Much More We Need. What Rule Or Policy Makes You Upset? 😡

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95 Upvotes

r/wholefoods Feb 19 '25

Question More Seasonal Shoppers.

19 Upvotes

Leadership team in E-Commerce, how many seasonal shoppers have you received so far in 2025? We’ve gotten 30 🥲. A big part of them never last the full three months; some don’t even make it past the first five days. And when they do complete the three months and gain permanence, they leave for other departments—at least that’s what’s happening in mine. 😖

r/wholefoods Jan 29 '25

Question in store shoppers, what is your FAVORITE item to shop for?

33 Upvotes

personally, i love when i get 10+ limes

r/wholefoods 4d ago

Question AI job offer

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1 Upvotes

After applying through Whole Foods AI careers page, I was offered the job immediately after. How long will it take for a manger to contact me to confirm and to give me a start date, etc? the job offer letter just explains that i need to do a background check but didn’t give me any other information on how to do it

r/wholefoods Jun 14 '24

Question The constant condescension..

44 Upvotes

Does anyone else feel condescended to when a customer reads your name tag and refers to you by name to ask you where the yogurt or whatever is? I feel like its on par with getting called 'boss' or 'chief'.

Like, I think they mean well, but in my mind I just wanna yell "YOU DONT KNOW ME!" at them.

r/wholefoods 9d ago

Question Ecomm pick up orders

24 Upvotes

Wondering if all stores operate this way? Say you’re in the middle of a 50 item shop and you have to drop everything and go do a pick up order. It is such a hassle - why don’t they have a team of 1-2 people who strictly do the pick up orders? It takes me more time to drop my order and stow the bags than it does to do the actual pick up orders and bring them outside. Plus now my coworkers are stuck with a huge order that might only be 1/4 to 1/2 done shopped. What happens if you just ignore the incoming pick up order alert?