Thread regarding Whole Foods Market Inc. layoffs

Somebody please inform regional buyers it isn't a great deal if it didn't sell the first two times you forced it out. And thanks to OTS, every store level order writer is cursing you because backstock percentage is part of the score, never mind not having labor to deal with extra bs product---the whole idea was not to waste time with back stock but some idiot who was a sh--ty buyer got promoted to regional because they had the right friends in leadership, they don't have to suffer through ridiculous time consuming OTS walks...yep, this is why wfm went downhill in a nutshell...

I am aware of my own faults and pothe failures at WF. Clearly the WF model worked really well that’s why they had to sell. It’s not a dead argument you just don’t like hearing what is being said. Everyone should carry the same items but they just need to stop bringing in garbage items and forcing them out.

A self absorbed person can only see the faults of others

But they are often colorblind to thier own...

What a dead argument, Something doesn’t sell in my store BS is long gone. I think you need a taste of reality outside of the old Whole Foods concept..If you want to be able to carry what you want, then you need a regional buyer. If you think that someone at Walmart buys for 2000 stores based on this doesn’t sell in my store crap you are mistaken and should be careful what you wish for in terms of regional cuts..

Butt hurt much ? Allocations are caused by regional over ordering and not understanding that just because something selling great in one store doesn’t mean it will do well in all. And the forced allocations with short codes are never put on promo so what ends up happening is the stores all take a hit and the regional buyer doesn’t take the blame.

Short coded allocations happen because a store didn’t pull thier weight, I would rather have a chance to sell the product as opposed to a spoilage dollar hitting the bottom line without a chance. You don’t have a choice in other grocers to decide what you want to carry. That’s whats going away, when a grocery buyer, meat buyer doesn’t get to choose what sells in his store etc...You think HEB or Central markets let thier stores choose what to carry? No it’s regional and yes they do allocations and Blame regional all you want, but when amazon gets a grasp of that. There will be a lot more regional/global positions. Not the cuts you speak of...

Short coded items get allocated out because some regional dope over ordered and needs to push out the crap items they decided to bring in. Allot of TM are not good but the quality has gotten considerably worse in the past few years. WF pays livable wages for long term TM members if the high paid TM are not performing but are kept that’s the TL\STL fault. I have almost never heard any TL\ATL speak highly of there product coordinators. The reason they are looked down upon is because most of them are just people promoted into roles they are unfit for.

If you think they don’t have regional structures at regular grocers time for a wake up call. And remember we have the highest labor at the store level in the industry. Not at a regional level. So if I had to take a wild guess and bet where they are going to trim more....ummm the stores! Complain all you want, we have had it good for years. I don’t blame regional. I blame all of the capped TMs not doing their job, b--ching about programs that are actually getting us out of the Stone Age. Alllocations? Is that joke? Ever worked for a retailer? You don’t even get a say , it just comes you fill a shelf and get on with your life...man the TMs I work with like the posters below are damn babies. Blame regional blame global all you want. Labor at the store will be cut again. Let’s hope it’s not your job...

I’m sure he is worried about his job he can’t force people to do build big displays anymore. So he can’t go take pictures and email them out to the regions pretending he had something to do with displays people busted there a-- making.

Rarely do the people with the power to cut get cut, it’s survival of the fittest. Theses clowns got to where they are for a reason and it’s rarely competence, they can talk away positions beneath them to save their own hide. I laugh every time I see the joke of an ac seafood coordinator in the MA show up at my store to show off his new tattoos and tell us we’re not going big enough with highly perishable displays.

If regional and central are basically useless might as well dispose of one of them. There is no need for redundant positions everyone should have the same products unless it’s a local item. No more pointless walks by people who sit in an office all day sending out foolish allocations. No more ignoring teams questions what value do the regional jobs fulfill?

If you think global programs are so good that regional folks should be worried that they will be out of a job soon, well you're right, we are all worried about our jobs but not because global programs are so good. Many of our regional partners can barely meet the production requirements that ONE region demands, much less a 'clean' supplier who can provide for all 500 stores. WFM biggest challenges are our tech, misogynistic upper, upper leadership, mediocrity in store leadership and aging facilities. Would be great to invest further in our older properties. I'm in a major US city and some of our stores are downright neglected, primarily due to STL bonus structure, RP's store count/feather in cap and Wall Street. Stores are dirty, rife with work comp claims and the same old folks running the show and I am talking about All Star STLs, EC & above who allowed this structure for years.

Are you kidding me they can post whatever they want. They always back filled jobs even though they knew they where going to be cut shortly after.

Ha! Doubt that ever happens. You can’t just post and post and post for these positions and then let them go... Man that severance tho for 6 months plus PTO??? At Coord pay? r, 60k PLUs PTO???

Yes regional

Is being laid off “ coordinators bye bye”

TL HERE- just enjoying my $35 a hour plus OT. back to sitting in the office shopping !

Sounds like Fake News, let’s hire a boat load of ECs and RVPs (tons of hiring going on) only to let them go in six months! Great plan

The regions are going to be combined into 3 total. West, Midwest and East.

Lmfao, you are tripping if you think they are letting regional go. Wake up call, any redundant positions might go but I can guarantee you that isn’t RVPs and ECs as much as you and I would like to wish and hope for. They knew about Marketing for a year and did that on thier own. Amazon wasn’t involved, BTW you ever looked at an amazon hierarchy? How many “regional “ positions they have? Look at other grocers, same concept, some might combine territory’s just like marketing but I would bet as much money as you have on that...No offense fellow TM by you have no clue

wishful thinking but doubt it, doesn't happen that way....

What? No more self-important store walks? How will I ever live without providing validation to people who hate the fact they work for a grocery store and need constant reassurance they are better than "just" a TM? Lol.

Yeah super sad to see overpaid, no knowledge buddies of VPs get disposed of. Most are unsupportive and unreasonable what’s so sad about it?

heard the same thing so sad