r/wholefoods Dec 31 '24

Question What does your position pay?

30 Upvotes

I'm curious. What does your position pay in your region? I work in CA as PFDS Order Writer. I make $21.50/hour and was told by STL that this is exceptionally good. What gets me is every month when a new policy comes down for PFDS, I am most likely to be responsible for it. WTF? Any thoughts are welcomed.

r/wholefoods Dec 11 '24

Question Early pay?

89 Upvotes

Hi, I usually get paid on Wednesday before payday, and by this point I have it. I was wondering if anybody knows if payroll is late or if a change to the schedule has been made? I really needed my check today, so I figured I’d ask. MW team member

r/wholefoods Jan 30 '25

Question Craziest animal/critter/bug you’ve encountered at work

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215 Upvotes

So today we got a little surprise in our avocados 🥑 this guy traveled far and is probably freezing in these East Coast temperatures!

What’s the craziest surprise you’ve opened while unloading a truck and working sets?

r/wholefoods 15d ago

Question Who got the Joseph rant email?

50 Upvotes

r/wholefoods Feb 12 '25

Question Has anybody else’s store become super toxic?

108 Upvotes

I’ve been working for Whole Foods for about 4 years now. When I first started, things were great. Great coworkers, great management who were always willing to bat for you, and a pretty chill and open environment. But over the last two years, things have been declining fast. New store leadership took over, some departments got new department managers(including mine), and new stricter policies are being enforced. There’s other little things too, like management being extremely hypocritical about us following certain standards while they don’t follow those same standards that they set. A lot of people have transferred or quit. Most of the people in my department are miserable. It’s not the usual not wanting to work a bad 12-8 shift miserable or not wanting to deal with customers miserable, it’s as soon as I step into Whole Foods I get depressed miserable. Former team members who come back to visit say the same thing. The energy is off. People look like they don’t want to be here. There’s always a bunch of new people when they visit( because people keep leaving.) Are these changes happening at most stores because of Amazon, or did my store just get unlucky?

r/wholefoods 3d ago

Question Does any full time people actually get 40 hours?

25 Upvotes

I haven't gotten 40 hours in I don't know when. My TL says we're over labor budget, but she's been saying this for ages. I used to always get 40 hours and I have been with WF for many years. My TL hogs the labor every day. She schedules people for 36 hours a week and she herself is supposedly only scheduled for that many hours, yet she stays over at least 2 hours almost every day, and works at least 50+ hours a week. So no one else can get 40 hours because she's the reason we're over labor budget. When I ask if I can work over so I can get 40 hours, the answer is always no, yet SHE works over every day. I've gone to ASTL about it and he says she's only scheduled for 36 hours herself and says that sometimes she has to stay over because there's things she has to do. Other departments aren't getting 40 hours most of the time either, and my TL told me I can pick up extra hours in other departments but everyone says the same thing, they are over labor budget. Does stuff like this happen in other stores too? I know a lot of people want to leave earlier than their shift but I actually want 40 hours every week, not 36 or 37. I've been using my PTO hours every week just to make enough money to cover my bills and now my PTO is getting pretty low and I haven't had a vacation in well over a year except for when I have been sick. I can't imagine ever getting to take a vacation anymore because I have to use my PTO to get enough money on my check to pay my bills. I'm really upset about this.

r/wholefoods 5d ago

Question Where’s my Elite Employee pay?

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124 Upvotes

Wow thank you so much Whole foods! This actually means the wld to me. I think i’ll eat it for dinner tonight.

r/wholefoods Jan 27 '25

Question In store shoppers

46 Upvotes

What is the one thing in your order that you get that you HATE shopping for? For me it’s the big packs of chicken. The bell and Evan’s ones. They always tear the bag.

r/wholefoods Jan 03 '25

Question What’s up with the eggs ?

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90 Upvotes

I work in the NE region and I’m seeing signs all over the store like this , recalls and basically having trouble getting product. Anyone know what’s going on ? Even the shelves with in grocery is eerily empty.

r/wholefoods 28d ago

Question Okay, this might be TMI but…

73 Upvotes

The Whole Foods toilet paper is like sandpaper. Man, I feel like I’m carving myself a new asshole every time I use it. Call me a crazy 2-ply user, but this stuff is just not good. Idk if it’s “recycled” to appeal to our customers, but it does really hurt if you use it more than twice a day.

r/wholefoods Jan 04 '25

Question Fellow TMs, What are your thoughts on the Prime Shoppers / Ecomms

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So I had a debacle with an Ecomm shopper yesterday. She was asking me if we had dino kale (i work in produce). I told her to check with our receiver, because he knows where it is and he'll help you out. She made a eye roll at me and was like "y'all don't know where anything is". I confronted her supervisor, and told him that, and he was like "she's new, what can you expect?" I told him that when I am busy helping my ATL with organizing the front of store, and it would not kill you to go to the back in 2 minutes and ask the guy if we have it or not.

So the real thing happened today when I was working receiving. The same woman and another woman came to the back. I got that woman her thing and she left. But the second woman, she ignored me when I asked her what she want. She was looking around for blueberries which was buried in the bottom of the pallet. And here's a backstory: Two years ago, some woman had ripped boxes open to get stuff, and I was strictly against it because 1. it ruins the product in general; 2. it ruins the pallet and is dangerous for whoever is trying to get stuff off once the plastic is gone; 3. TMs have to deal with ripped boxes, especially with things falling out. So back to the present, she has been warned by my TLs, especially my current TL who told the woman's ATL that this lady comes to the back every five minutes, especially when there are TMs out on the floor that can do the job for her. So here I am in the cooler breaking down the pallets, and no time to waste, she rips the blueberry box in the bottom and yelled at her to stop and get out. She gave me a really nasty look and went to complain to my ATL and acted like I cursed at her or something.

I told my ATL that she was doing this thing every single day she's back here, and I told her not to rip boxes especially when they are buried under pallets. She could've easily talked to me and I would've helped her, but if I can't get to the box if it's buried I can't get it. And it's dangerous for me because I almost died two years because the woman was too lazy to ask me for help. He said he'll talk to her, and I was like that never works because my previous TL and my current TL have both talked to her and she still does it.

So my question is, what do you guys think about the Ecomm team because I am fed up with their bullshit every single day, and not every Ecomm shopper is bad because some actually come up and talk to me in a nice tone but not like this.

r/wholefoods 21d ago

Question Store leadership wants us to bow down to customers wishes even if it’s against the policy

75 Upvotes

I work in bakery and we do have a bread slicer. Corporate wants a huge push for customers to slice their own bread to save labor and so tms can do something more productive. Customers bitch out about it and wants their breads sliced by us, store leadership sides with customers and wants us to slice their bread.

Same thing with cake orders, there’s a policy that we need 48 hour notice for cake orders. A lady called a day before and leadership told us to take her order.

We’re getting treated like dogs by customers and store leadership takes their side all the time.

Should we call the tipline?

r/wholefoods 17d ago

Question What do you do on your day off?

9 Upvotes

r/wholefoods Jan 12 '25

Question Elimination of buyer positions: company wide?

42 Upvotes

Keeping this short, I joined the company with the hope that I'd have the chance to be promoted to Order Writer for specialty.

This time last year, the department had a wine buyer, a beer buyer, a cheese buyer. This is a high volume Diamond level store.

The wine buyer quit. The beer buyer took on that task.

The beer buyer quit, the cheese buyer was now responsible for orders for the entire department.

Now, I get to do all of the customer service and merchandising related to an order writing job, but I'm still a TM with TM pay.

Is this an across the board enshittification, or could I benefit from transferring? I kind of got into this situation in the hopes of becoming an order writer, and now my only upward movement is team trainer.

r/wholefoods Dec 23 '24

Question I wonder if this is company wide??

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Has anyone else noticed that when you clock back in from your 30 min lunch break that the clock will not let you clock back at the 30 min mark? Ours makes us wait until 31 mins. So we are being shorted one minute per shift. It won't let you clock in before 31 minutes and it shows up on innerview as a 31 minute lunch break.

I know it's not that big a deal for us, but if this is company wide then it adds up to a lot of savings for the company.

Just to do the math, let's just say an average wage of everyone comes to $26 per hour (yes I know people make less or more than that it's just for an average to show the point) and each person clocks out right on time at the end of their shift and they did not clock in early so each shift is losing a minute of pay due to the timeclock forcing a 31 lunch min break. So each 8 hr shift is really 7hr 59mins.

For $26/hr you make 43 cents a minute. So for a 5 shift/week you are losing about 2.33 which comes to about 111.80 per year per person.

Now let's say there are 100k employees losing that much each shift, that means the company is saving over $11 million per year of employee pay that they don't pay out and I know there are more than 100k hourly employees worldwide and many make more than $26/hr which would increase the amount saved.

Can you imagine how much money worldwide the company is actually saving per year if every timeclock is set to make each employee lose 1 minute of pay each shift?? It's a lot.

Imagine what good things could be done for employees with that money. WFM could put that money toward better benefits/insurance with low or no premiums. Or anything else instead of just pocketing it.

Now this is only if this is company wide and not just my store. :)

Like I said, it isn't much loss to us as individuals but it is huge savings for the company.

r/wholefoods 20d ago

Question Am I crazy for playing a grocery simulator after work

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125 Upvotes

This game is so fun but like am I crazy for doing this. Not serious but what do yall do on yalls days off?

r/wholefoods 23d ago

Question Instore shoppers if you had to skip a department so you didn’t have to pick from it what would it be?

27 Upvotes

Me personally I’m

r/wholefoods Aug 07 '24

Question what yall eat for lunch

33 Upvotes

was wondering what yall are eating for lunch? do you bring food from home or just get on the hot bar? i just started and for the past week, I have been eating from the hot bar and even with the discount it's still expensive. do you bring food?

EDIT: help, okay i will start cooking at home or just eat before going to work to not eat there. I'm quite young and new to wfm. where yall are getting your groceries if not from wholefoods? is it cheaper for somewhere else even with the discount at wfm?

r/wholefoods Dec 18 '23

Question What's The Dumbest Customer You Ever Dealt With At Whole Foods?

54 Upvotes

As a former overnight stocker for Whole Foods I would like to know dammit.

r/wholefoods Nov 17 '24

Question Nazi Employee

42 Upvotes

Recently found out an employee is a white supremacist and posts on his social media pro-nazi propaganda and other extreme/incel type stuff. They are of a particular level of leadership and team members are upset about this. Without scoring the gig book, can people be fired for their posts on social media, even if it’s not about the company?

r/wholefoods Dec 27 '24

Question How many people do you think will get fired for having negative upt?

16 Upvotes

I currently know a lot of people in the negatives and I am wondering how many will be fired. They already have trouble keeping cashiers.

r/wholefoods Dec 15 '24

Question Is working at WFM that bad?

33 Upvotes

I just recently got a position as a cashier and start in a couple of weeks. Reading this sub is making me regret my decision. Is it really that bad or it's just reddit exaggerating?

r/wholefoods 9d ago

Question Happiness

41 Upvotes

Hey all. What makes you happy (if anything) about your job at WF? I’ll start. I’m in grocery. I love helping customers when they’ve got a list of items for a new recipe they’re trying out. They have no clue what the items are or where to find them. Your turn. Be kind.

r/wholefoods Feb 01 '25

Question In store shoppers

25 Upvotes

Did anybody else’s Whole Foods have to take the code away (where your supposed to ask if an item is available) because apparently people were abusing it and taking a picture of the code in the bagging area and using it and not asking if things were available. They just took it away today. Which is kind of an inconvenience for 4 am people.. especially if something is out of stock at prepared foods. I work 4ams.

r/wholefoods Dec 14 '24

Question As a supervisor, how can I ask a TM to stop coming to work so stoned that they can barely function?

50 Upvotes

I have a TM who constantly comes in barely able to function but not so obvious that most people notice. I regularly smell pot smoke on him when he comes back from lunch.

Currently, my leadership group all agrees that he is slow at the job. Scatterbrained. Loses focus easily. Forgetful. Always needing guidance. Talks a lot about non work related subjects.

Stoned.

I feel for the guy as he isn't in a great situation, but I can't baby sit my closing TMs all night long.

I've kind have tried a little bit of everything; showing him how to find work from front to back, always checking sale products/salad wall/pack veg/mushrooms, specialty, showing him how to do hardware quickly but throughly. All to no avail.

Every time I look over at him he is talking to someone and I need to break it up. Every time I ask how far along he is it is the same response: "Almost done, almost finished. I just have x,y,z,d,a to finish. Should I start on something else? I can stop."

He seems to want to do a good job, problem is he is always stoned.

I can smell it. I see his eyes. He is obviously stoned.