The Real Reason Many Whole Foods Employees Are Quitting
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By Lauren Rothman/Oct. 18, 2021 2:56 pm EST
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On the subreddit r/wholefoods, user u/goodgirlcheese authored a post titled, “Is anyone else broken up about how much Whole Foods has changed?” The user, who wrote that she has been a Whole Foods employee for 15 years, noted changes such as the diminishing coverage of employee health insurance as well as the removal of employee incentive programs.
“Over the past year I’ve slowly watched all our best people leave, and it’s clear that the magic is gone. I’d sort of planned to be a lifer and watching this happen to us has been hard,” she wrote.
To date, the thread has garnered nearly 100 comments, with fellow Whole Foods employees underscoring u/goodgirlcheese’s points. “Yup. Wanted my own store once. Love, LOVE being a manager and the way we used to do leadership,” user u/Barrrrrrnd wrote. “Now I just feel like I’ve given a decade to a company that doesn’t really exist anymore in an industry I want out of.”
The subreddit is full of threads of employees announcing their departure from the company or seeking advice on how to resign. For now, it seems, the grocery store chain’s employees are none too happy.
