Thread regarding Whole Foods Market Inc. layoffs

If ASTLs were put back into team member positions, STLs would have to do their jobs. They make a lot of money and do little for it. They sometimes lose touch with what is going on deep within the store and departments. They start functioning on the perimeter. That’s when stores go off the rails. STL leaders need to get back working alongside their tms. Quit acting as store greeters to customers and best buds to some tms. Everybody is equal and everybody works equally hard. STLs put themselves on a pedestal. They think they are special. They stop being the example of team member with a good work ethic and become divas in their own mind. STL leaders often become the worst problem in stores and because of it there is no one actually leading.

If you dont think the layoffs at HQ's will not mean more work for you in the stores, I got a bridge i'd like to sell ya.

"forecast exceeded demand" on corporate level KPI................lmao.....

amazon realized there was a lot of redundancy and deadweight in those regional offices...and software is always progressing to were office jobs might be dinosaurs...who remembers when each store had an accountant..???

Hopefully this will bring an end to weekly conference calls.

Like previous layoffs, things are being consolidated. All stores will most likely be given manuals and playbooks to execute a global vision - Coords and ACs will just focus on the execution of that vision (if they're not laid off). Regions will be stripped of any uniqueness and decision-making with the goal of making all stores the same. This is fine but WFM isn't set-up to operate like this. Get ready for a cluster F when trying to send that vision down since all of the stores have different variables to consider and Global has no clue what it's like in stores right now. One size does not fit all. I feel for the stores that are going to have interpret the BS from global and try to make it work. It's going to be a nightmare.

Layoffs for leadership and their favorites.

There is no one left in the stores to layoff (well maybe the Astl's
Who do NOTHING)!