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    Whole Foods Market Reviews

    Updated 22 April 2018
    5,952 reviews

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    • Team Members hourly rate is capped (in 567 reviews)

    • Very difficult to maintain work/life balance (in 107 reviews)

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    1. "Best Retail Company To Work For"

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      • Senior Management
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Whole Foods Market part-time

      Pros

      Team members are treated with respect at all times.

      Cons

      Have to work odd hours and during weekends.

    2. "Customer service"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in London, England
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in London, England

      I worked at Whole Foods Market full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Great benefits, nice people, promotions

      Cons

      Hard work and can’t sit

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    3. Helpful (1)

      "Customer service"

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      Current Employee - Customer Service in Clapham, London, England
      Current Employee - Customer Service in Clapham, London, England
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Whole Foods Market (More than a year)

      Pros

      One of the best American company in the uk. Greater environment and amazing discounts.

      Cons

      Team leaders and managers taking full advantage of regular team members. Some departments managers and team leaders are like celebrities you don’t even get the chance to seem them while team members her getting slaved. At HSK the people who are in charge of payroll and hairing new staff are straight racist if you ain’t European or one of them they won’t even haire you the worst part is the two ladies who are dealing with payrolls can’t even speak English properly lol

      Advice to Management

      Stop making people who can’t even speak proper English a team leader I mean we are in English a team leader should be able to speak and explain procedures properly not getting stuck and not even being able to pronounce or even read a simple sentence.

    4. Helpful (2)

      "Decent retail job"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at Whole Foods Market part-time

      Pros

      Pay very precise (every overtime minute gets paid) even if not very high, general environment very good, better than any other retail job I've ever experienced, relaxed atmosphere but very busy at times

      Cons

      all the hype around the core values is essentially fake

    5. "Great Team Atmosphere and room for advancement"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Whole Foods Market full-time

      Pros

      Team work, Good Management, High Quality

      Cons

      None, None, None, None, None

    6. Helpful (1)

      "Where are those Famous Values"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in London, England
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in London, England
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Whole Foods Market full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      They hire just about anyone. So if you need a job apply here.
      No english no problem
      No customer service skills no problem
      No leadership skills no problem
      Made my point

      Cons

      What team member happiness? I don't think this has been a thing for a while.
      Standards are not as high most people think.
      so behind the times with ordering, Stocktakes, and most other things
      Senior Leadership is very poor and disorganised
      Too many to actually list

      Advice to Management

      My advise to regional leadership would be to not act as though they are better than the rest of the team members I am sure that this is not what wholefoods was built on. Maybe they should chasing so many different trends and focus perfecting what their core. Stop forcing individual agendas on to the stores and start to do things more fairly. Start to try and understand why team member turnover is so high and maybe do something to fix it, like treat them like people that have lives and feelings.
      look at doing fixed shifts for the team members so that they are able to plan there lives better with rotating weekends off.
      Stop plotting and scheming and doing things in secrecy and be the transparent company that you claim to be. Please try and start to give people closer to what they deserve as opposed to doing their rating before even doing the job dialogue.

    7. "Grocery Buyer"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Whole Foods Market full-time

      Pros

      People and autonomy on taking decisions. Open communication. Creativity. Company's core values when I started, 4 years ago.

      Cons

      Health benefits and compensations. Acquisition from Amazon and uncertainty with the merge, specially in what relates to core values and ethos of the company.

    8. "Supervisor"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Whole Foods Market full-time

      Pros

      Friendly colleague, good environment, good hours

      Cons

      sometimes there is no support, not easy to progress

    9. "Customer Service Supervisor"

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      Current Employee - Customer Service Supervisor in London, England
      Current Employee - Customer Service Supervisor in London, England
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Whole Foods Market full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Friendly environment
      no uniform needed
      25% off discount

      Cons

      sometimes too much pressure is put to help other departments
      schedule changes frequently.
      finishing very late when closing.

    10. "Store Floater Review"

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      Former Employee - Store Floater
      Former Employee - Store Floater
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Whole Foods Market part-time

      Pros

      Great Team Ethos
      Pleasant working environment
      Management generally have open door policy and will help out in other departments at busy times.
      Staff discount

      Cons

      Full training was not provided in some departments that I worked in.

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