Thread regarding Whole Foods Market Inc. layoffs

SSS & GA

If you are SSS & GA, please start looking for another position now. You are next. With Demo and Concierge eliminated they are going to get any available positions and you are going to be stuck with nothing. Don’t wait to see if I am telling the truth because I am telling the truth.

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Post ID: @OP+QmMgGZ4

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After getting a crappy TL who became power hungry at my store, she chased me away. not the layoff.

These team leaders need training. Its like giving a doctor a job without the proper training.

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Post ID: @emjs+QmMgGZ4

Agree with the below post both positions have no real prospect in moving up. Save up your PTO stay seasonal to cash out your PTO slowly while you work your other job to make up the difference in the possibility you take a pay cut.

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Post ID: @6hwh+QmMgGZ4

Other jobs exist out there. If offered severance take it! I hope they offer it to me soon. I plan on bailing after 15 years. Good riddance. Whole Foods is no more.

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Post ID: @5doy+QmMgGZ4

Many at corporate used to work at stores. Believe me when I tell you that lower levels at corporate still pass on info to us in the trenches. SSS and GA are going. So are many buyers and marketers. It may not be as soon as right after the holidays like the OP said, but it is very soon. Of course it isn't a layoff, because they publicly stated no more layoffs. it is is a restructuring. That is the keyword they are using to avoid bad press.

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Post ID: @5zfa+QmMgGZ4

I love all the natural and organic products at TJ, Aldi and now, Lidl. Whole who? I predict that Amazon will take a massive charge against earnings in the next year to write off a huge non-performing chunk of one of the worst corporate investment decisions in history.

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Post ID: @3aou+QmMgGZ4

SW certainly did offer severance for these folks... if offered take it and run.

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Post ID: @3hkc+QmMgGZ4

Lol. Yes, demo and concierge absolutely got offered a severance package. In the SW here.

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Post ID: @2ltk+QmMgGZ4

Demo and concierge did not get severance.

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Post ID: @2kdj+QmMgGZ4

The GIG is a joke

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Post ID: @2spl+QmMgGZ4

If they already told you that you are entitled to severance, I would think they would have to honor that

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Post ID: @1phq+QmMgGZ4

Demo and concierge got severance. Can this be argued if they try to go around it?

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Post ID: @1ffv+QmMgGZ4

But does the GIG still apply? Now that we are Amazon, I am sure that that could be argued

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Post ID: @1vod+QmMgGZ4

Severance is spelled out in the GIG. Hopefully they don't change the GIG last minute before they cut anyone.

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Post ID: @1xhh+QmMgGZ4

Severance? Lmao good luck

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Post ID: @1cnm+QmMgGZ4

We'd take a severance over another sh-- position in the store. Why would you take a cabin in a sinking ship?

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Post ID: @1mbe+QmMgGZ4

Well WF should be ready to pay out allot of fines the teams do a horrible job of tag and tare maintenance. I have worked in multiple stores and it is quite bad and I know its not better elsewhere.

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Post ID: @1zxx+QmMgGZ4

Why did every store need to recently pick a Data Monster Champion?...think about it

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Post ID: @1gto+QmMgGZ4

Although I'm not sure if OP has hard data on when this will happen. All SSSs and GAs are aware that parts of their jobs have been cut over the past two years before Amazon even entered the picture. We all see the writing on the wall.

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Post ID: @1lek+QmMgGZ4

Where are you getting this information?

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