Luckily still have a job at wfm (for now) but anyway I was wondering if there has been any rumors or info about any stores closing down in the southern Pacific area
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The Davis store in the Northern California region just announced their closure to employees this morning. First whole foods store to ever close.
The Dayton, Ohio store is doing very poorly.
The Dayton, Ohio store is doing very poorly.
they decided to not open a couple of stores in the florida region..one was in a ritzy suburb of tampa,which already has three stores..and one down the road in sarasota..they had this brilliant idea to put a store 7 blocks up the same road from the south beach store..yes 7 blocks(talk about store to store cannibalism) and that store was surrounded by two publix and one fresh market all within blocks of the new location..who the hell at regional makes these dingbat decisions to open too many stores in one metro area..
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Love the end to that comment hah
We have one of the worst performing stores in the company in our metro. They're adding a tap room to it. Whole foods won't close any stores just cut cut cut until they're running on nothing and let other stores make up for it.
As a typical head-in-the-clouds " morale booster" the PN RVP Joe posted excitedly on our homepage about the 8 or so new stores we will be opening in the next 3 years.
My famiily and I are betting that the next things to happen (after the holidays) will be first, more cuts, and second, closing of many stores. Running a national grocery chain is super expensive and our stores are HIGH maintenance with all the different vendors, layouts, crazy logistics and local focus. That's why many successful chains are regional. Then again WFM has always been "ready, fire, aim." Oh wait, it's actually just "fire" because they're never ready and they don't aim.
palm Springs.... and one of the Sherman OKs stores.... are not doing good... I wouldn't b surprised if they close...