I worked at Whole Foods as a bread baker when Amazon bought Whole Foods. Within six months, instead of making the bread from scratch every day, they shipped us frozen bread made in Austin, and all I did was put in on trays and warm it up. The quality went way down, and the prices went way up. Don't be fooled into thinking their bread is baked fresh every day, because that is a lie.

From an employee perspective, who had worked at Whole Foods prior to the acquisition from Amazon and then after, there has been a noticeable difference. Whole Foods used to care more about their products, customers and overall setting but since Amazon took over, it's all about metrics and quantity over quality.

I worked for wholefoods for 4.5 years, right after amazon bought them. It got so much worse. Huge turnover and miserable employees.

I really miss how whole foods used to hire local artists to design their signage, it made every store unique and gave the small town store feel. I worked at whole foods when amazon came and took over and everything that made whole foods unique went away.

I work at Whole Foods. The turnover rate has gotten much higher the past few years and seems to only get worse. Most new hires at my store quit within a few weeks or even after just their first shift. Recently a new hire during their first shift asked to go to the bathroom and never came back. 😂

As a WF employee: you just work for Amazon, whole foods is not whole foods anymore. The prices keep increasing, but no raises for employees and they have a ridiculously harsh attendance policy that makes the turnover rate unnecessarily high. Don't shop there, go to a cheaper or locally owned grocer and support your community

I use to work at WFM before AMZ and I loved it. It literally was the anti corporation, corporation. We never did commercials, definitely supported local farmers, ranchers, businesses, artist etc. They always paid us well, we could vote leadership on and off our team, wooden nickels ( worth $5) were often given out, free grocery items and swag, field trips to local suppliers, field trips to international suppliers all paid for by WFM, quarterly bonuses, the meat was always expensive but that’s because of the animals welfare standards they had. Now, it’s just a regular corporation, so sad but corporate America always wins. At least I knew WF when it was amazing.

It’s interesting that this video goes out of its way to mention that the standards for food sold there since Amazon took over have improved, since my sister, an avid and longtime Whole Foods customer, just told me recently that she had to stop buying many products at the hot foods bar and in other areas because products that were formerly made with olive oil are now being made with canola oil, which is definitely a step in the wrong direction from a nutritional standpoint.

I would not go into a store where hundreds of cameras were tracking my every move. My local farm shop doesn't have a single one.

Amazon doesn’t understand that this customer market that shops at whole foods isnt concerned about cheap prices they are concerned about organic/healthy & they know & understand that they will have to pay more.

Amazon ruined it in so many ways. The “local” feel that management was able to give each store has been eliminated. The stores used to be an “experience”; it’s now very cold and impersonal. The “bakery” used to evoke an old school bakery by its design but now it’s self-serve. There are fewer “Fresh” items there also.

Selling WF to AMAZ is like selling Borders bookstore to Kmart. The energy shift in both stores before and after was immense. The distinct characteristics made them so unique and attractive become merely shadows of their former selves after the transactions. It is like moving a child from a loving home to a group care.

They forgot to mention all the ways in which they’ve made it a nightmare for employees.

As a long-time WFM shopper (before and after Amazon bought WFM), I disagree with much of this. Amazon has steadily been getting rid of organic products and swapping them out for conventional (including in the house 365 brand). They've drastically reduced variety - which as a shopper with allergies, this really matters. Plus, it was a specialty store and I came there for those unique items that no one else stocked. (such as organic macadamia nuts). They got rid of bulk organic spices, and then they got rid of them in the packets. They're steadily replacing vegan/vegetarian friendly products and replacing them with meat or Keto stuff and - given that my store is in the vegan capital of the USA - that is not okay. Before Amazon bought them, I knew employees for a long time and they began to feel like friends and a small local grocery store. Since WFM was bought-- my store which at the purchase time was the highest producing in my region--employee turnover has been so fast that it often feels like new faces every week. They also got rid of items that you don't buy often, but you come back for repeatedly, with their "Stock to Shelf" policy. There were many products that I had bought for years that disappeared, and frankly, it made me mad. As for prices going down - that's a bunch of crap. WFM 365 brand pasta sauce was $1.69. It's now $3.99, with similar price changes all over the store, and my budget has doubled, so I don't know where they got the 30% drop from. I'm a Prime member, so I do get the discounts, which most of the time are like regular sales. I disagree that local providers have not been swapped out for larger contracts - in the soda aisle, for instance, they've slowly removed organic and unique and local products and are replacing it with a wall of 365 soda. I can go to Safeway for that. Personally, I'm not a fan of the Amazon shoppers - they drive around not regarding or courteous to the customers in front of them, and sometimes you have to avoid getting run over by them. Produce quality has also deteriorated and there's less variety and less organic. Honestly, I used to shop WFM exclusively, and now I shop other stores and if something like the old WFM came around, I would leave entirely.

People don’t believe me when I tell them that back in the early ‘90’s when I lived in CA all of the Whole Foods had someone doing chair massage session costing a buck a minute, truly local products and produce, and REAL Health foods second to none. The staff were more hippie types and were well versed in health and nutrition advice and they actually knew the products. Amazon ruined a very it and I hate shopping there…if you can even get to the shelves which is a challenge here in NYC due to so many of their own people filling delivery orders.

Its just another example of how Amazon has so much influence over our media now. The producers of this short showed a lack of integrity by not interviewing current or former employees. Amazons policies have directly and negatively impacted their team members for years! High turnover and unionization attempts are just symptoms of the larger problem with Amazon/Whole Foods: That there is a severe human cost to employees when it’s profits over people, Amazon NEEDS regulation!

amazon ruined whole foods

Remember the good old days when you could pay in cash and remain anonymous at the grocery store? The fact they have a better knowledge of your spending habits and lifestyle choices than you should raise some concern!

This is financial advice and I never give financial advice: DONT LEAVE DURING THE BEAR. If you don’t want to invest…learn. If you don’t want to learn…build. If you don’t want to build observe. DO SOMETHING…other than leave. There is so much opportunity here. Take advantage!

I run a perishable food ministry. Pre-Amazon whole foods was one of our biggest donators. Amazon took over and started selling expiring food to pig farms instead.... thanks a lot Amazon

I used to spend $200/week on whole foods delivery. Then one day they delivered my grocery to the wrong address and refused to find it or refund me. Never asked for a refund before and have been a loyal customer for 20 years. Haven’t ordered Amazon grocery since. The $200 mess up cost Amazon $10,000+ per year.

If you have a local non-chain grocery store within 10 miles from home, I strongly urge you to shop there. The fruits and vegetables are so affordable.

Never consented to having hundreds of cameras surveil me while shopping. This is the worst timeline possible.

My farmers market (called Harry's) was later bought by whole foods. I didn't mind it, I thought whole foods was cool had great produce and health food. Every time I went to whole foods I wondered what new cool thing I would find. Now it just feels like a target that sells vegan food. Thanks Amazon.

Been a shopper at WF for about 15 years. The hot bar used to be top notch healthy food with some not so healthy foods found there sparingly. Now the hot bar looks like slop shop or a public high school cafeteria in da hood, live and dead flies have a feast in it in the summertime where i live, even the greens, beans and other veggies that used to be stemmed are now drowned in heavy grease and oil. Within 2 yrs the hot bar went from 7.99 lb to now 11.99lb and the food ain’t even half as good as it used to be. Used to go there faithful every Thursday after work but now I go there maybe once a month.

NEVER FORGET: Amazon lied about ring doorbell privacy

just wanna say, they really messed up selling Whole Foods to Amazon. I worked there right after the merger happened, and my coworkers who stayed after the transition said they were extremely disappointed. They started having people work 3 different stations instead of just one (so literally one person running pizza, deli counter, and sandwich) and the quality dropped as well because how can you handle all of that and maintain the same quality as 3-4 workers?

As a wholefoods employee for more that 5 year I can say that change that amazon has made into wholefoods has been bad, we lost a lot of out good benefits that we used to have the culture has changed and it just has turned more stressful, the morale and culture has changed, I'm not going to lie amazon has bring some good stuff into wholefoods but it's hasn't been the same.

Technology doesn't always solve problems; sometimes it only causes more. Miss the hometown feel of Whole Foods.

I've been to the Los Angeles location not too long ago and I walked in and walked right back out. I immediately felt creeped out and I just felt that Amazon/Whole Foods was "doing too much" with all them cameras. Maybe I am old school (I'm 27), but I have no problem going into a grocery store like Vons, putting my stuff in a cart, wait in line to check out, and go home.

Remember to be a bit lenient on WF shoppers. When I worked there, we wanted to make 60 units per hour, meaning I only had literally 1 minute per item to shop for. For example, if the order was 25 items, it’s 25 minutes I should spend searching, packaging and staging the bags. I now work at Amazon Fresh grocery store and heard their units per hour went up to 90 which is CRAZY. So yes, I’d say they are overworked and underpaid.

We all must stop falling for these stories and this industrialized countries' rhetoric. It's always about the money (that they want to make) and not about the customer or the environment. That's why I always buy vegetables and fruit at the local Farmers' market, buy the rest at the nearest supermarket, and make sure to buy products that come in glass containers or tin. Also, I always bring my own bags (they live in the trunk of my car) and avoid plastic packaging -all kinds even biodegradable. The real change happens at home and in your head.

Is this a sponsored ad for Amazon and Whole Foods?

I stopped shopping at Whole Foods once they started taking out some of the more niche items. That was the whole reason I loved going there. 😭

I live in San Diego where we have a Whole Foods in Hillcrest. The store isn't even a whisper of what it once was. It truly feels like shopping for food at Target now, just pre-packaged vegan junk. Plus, the store has gotten super grimey and there are tons of homeless sleeping on the sidewalk outside. It is so sad what has happened to this once juggernaut of food. It use to be a real part of the community. Now no one goes there and we all go up the street to Lazy Acres which still offers real food and is legitimately part of the community.

The personality of Whole Foods changed immediately when Amazon bought it. There was a cold veil that hung over every employee in the store. It appeared they were scared to do anything that would interfere with their daily duty list. It was like they were being watched. Many customers love it and some despise it like I do. Every time that I go in I ask myself why. It's always a pleasure to shop at Trader Joes and Fresh Market.

Whole Foods under Amazon is wack.

Thank you. An interesting video. But I am most pleased to say that I stopped shopping at WF over twelve years ago, just after stopping to go to Starbucks and McDonald's. The greediness of the corporate entities sickens me and I do not trust any of them.

Not enough time was given to the changes for workers. My wife was an employee there before and after the purchase by Amazon. She liked the old Whole Foods and became miserable after they were bought by Amazon.

I worked at WF for about 5 years in the early 2000. We had this thing called gain sharing which was a labour surplus that team members benifted from. So for eg if your department you work for exceeds the profit margin, you distributed the gain sharing amongst the team members. Not sure if they still do that. Now they have merged departments together the customer service and morale have left the building.

I loved Whole Foods pre Amazon, now that they have gone to this dystopian model of shopping, I won't set foot in one.

Listen CAREFULLY -- you spend MORE using autonomous shopping because it separates the experience of using your wallet. Everything is about separating you from your money and getting you to spend more, NOT about convenience.

I prefer it before Amazon acquisition. I noticed once I had the bad Mochi, breads, cake, food everything was superior before. Quality and soul of Whole Foods is now gone. It’s still a good store but I have found other organic stores and farmers market. I would occasionally go to Whole Foods but not my first choice. PS : Comments are more informative than the video

Wish Whole Foods held out and never let Amazon buy them out. It had such a golden era.

It's truly not as friendly anymore. Only the butcher is so sweet. She hugs me every time. But I don't like shopping there anymore. Our store isn't a walk out store yet but it's creepy to me so I switched and do not shop at wholefoods. It's cold and alot of workers are rude. I used to enjoy my trip there. Not anymore. Trader Joe's, Sprouts and Central Market are fabulous. So sad. We are human and crave human interaction. Not there anymore.

As a WFM employee, this reporting is at odds with the employee experience. Take it with a grain of salt.

I used to do all my shopping at Whole Foods. I loved the happy employees and the customer focused layout and service. Now they have things like walls around the bakery and employees can't do things like give free samples to reccomend a products. They even closed the nice dinning area for grocery storage. Those are just examples but the feel has completly changed...I never go there anymore.....

We basically stopped shopping at whole foods after Amazon acquired them because they kept getting rid of the food that we liked buying. They would replace our favorite brand with either nothing similar or with some other brand we didn't like. We got tired of going to the store every time thinking well I wonder if they're going to have what I'm after today?

I used to really like WF - under Amazon it’s the same as any other grocer but expensive - I stopped going there after years of being a customer. I used the enjoy all the exotic items you couldn’t get elsewhere, but that’s largely all gone now.

I stopped shopping at Whole Foods just because everyone who worked there was miserable or had an attitude. Just go to Trader Joe’s instead.

since Amazon bought Whole Foods it hasn't been the same in my opinion. I liked whole foods because of the international section they had in store. There was pasta you could only buy at whole foods. I haven't been back to whole foods since the buy.

I worked for Whole Foods and Core Values went away thanks to Amazon, sad how this company doesn't care and value their employees, anyway my sister in law doesn't shop anymore there, we look for our local farmers even if they are 3 hours away

What Amazon really bought is data, our movement data

Whole foods has gone downhill since Amazon bought it; fewer specialty items and fewer organic foods. The cheese section is piotifle now. I go more often to Sprouts.

I worked in prepared foods at wholefoods for about 2 months before I got sick of selling frozen food out of a bag for $13/lb and any concerns I had about the food quality resulted in me being “coached”

I used to work at Whole Foods when they started to take over they got rid of a lot of local brands when Amazon bough them. They also took away any extra money that employees would get quarterly if they were under budget for labor

Funny thing is that Amazon has all my purchasing data, but they've never managed to show me something on their front page that I actually wanted to buy but didn't know it. Massive fail for their algorithms.

Thanks for the reminder CNBC. I left Whole Foods five years ago to support a local Organic Grocery Store in my area. Thanks Amazon for encouraging me to shop locally and elsewhere. 🙂

Just what I want, cameras watching my every move. That's so creepy.

I stopped shopping at Whole Foods the moment it got bought by Amazon, and I have zero regrets.

When Amazon took over Whole Foods the prices skyrocketed and service went to pot. I will not use the current Whole Foods ever again!

Why the hell would anyone want to use biometrics to pay for anything? 🙄

I’ve been to the DC store. It was a strange experience. I had to ask the worker there what I was supposed to do because you walk in the door and immediately, there’s a gate. I had to look for my app. If you don’t have that qr code or app or whatever, you can’t shop. The store is about the size of a 7-11, not very big, but just enough to get some basics. I put a cucumber in my cart. I asked the worker how do they know I put a cucumber in my cart ( I didn’t know about the cameras), and he was like ‘they just know’ which all of a sudden gave me a creepy ‘big brother’ feeling and I looked around suspiciously. There’s a counter if you want to bag stuff yourself, and then you just walk out the gate. It was a very strange experience.

I just had my last day as a WF in-store shopper for the amazon orders and it was intense. My supervisors/TLs were so nice, but due to amazon rules we weren’t even allowed to bring waterbottles with us while shopping orders. Sometimes the system would let 80+ item orders go through that we had to complete and have ready within an hour or sometimes half an hour. I always felt overworked and for $15 an hour (around $12 an hour with tax taken out) it was not worth it. Sad because the employees are so nice and I do think Whole Foods does a good job of carrying ethical brands.

Wholefood minimal wage is lower than Walmart, Starbucks or maybe even target.

I remember when Whole Foods was a single hippie grocery store. It was huge and had everything. Then it became a place for rich people to buy overpriced "organic" foods and it was nothing but a pretentious scam. How is it any different now that Amazon is in charge?

As Whole Foods becomes more and more impersonal by integrating this new tech, competition will lean into friendly customer service.

Now I understand what happened to whole foods! I had just recently been back to New York for a visit. I had found that much of the organic food was very limited since i had visited over 7 years ago. The selection of organic meat for example was very limited. I thought it was because of the pandemic. I guess not.

Personally I wouldn't buy from a store if I knew that I was being tracked/staked every step of the way and that every item I purchased was being listed and examined for that info to be sold for profit to manufactures etc..

Anti trust Laws - must not even begin to be in effect one company should not have all that access to information. The fact that people would possible willingly enter a store and pay with their palm is disturbing to me.

I spent a decade working for WF just before they got bought out. The vibe has changed. I miss the old energy, I loved working for them. Granted our store was not in an affluent area and it felt much more like an old hippie hangout 🌈 I miss those days a lot.

"Under Amazon prices have dropped" sounds inaccurate. In the things I watch, things like store brand pasta, they went up 20%-40% within weeks after they bought WF.

Headline: Amazon has re-made and ruined Whole Foods. This story has numerous incorrect statements and omits important facts--some of these are addressed in other viewers' comments, and others are not. I will note just a few. Before Amazon, Whole Foods had experts operating different specialty segments of the products, such as the cheese department. As a frequent customer, I knew all of these people at the store I go to (Wellesley, MA, a relatively affluent town). These specialists added a great deal of professional expertise, and made the shopping experience more productive (e.g., finding the cheese that you will like) and pleasant. After Amazon took over, all of those experts were terminated and replaced by generic relatively junior and inexperienced salespeople having little if any actual knowledge of the products they were responsible for (e.g., cheese). This video's claims that these replacements are being trained to have the expertise of their predecessors is false (and not just in my store). In addition, the staff (especially the segment specialists) were empowered to give customers free products to try--not just small samples (such as of cheese), but even entire products (an entire chocolate bar, jar of pasta sauce, etc.) It should go without saying that no one at Amazon's WF is empowered to do that anymore. This video claims that Amazon's WF has increased the availability of local foods. That is an exaggerated distortion. It fails to mention Amazon's termination of one of WF's most interesting features: frequent occasions when the actual producers (farmers, chefs, etc.) of local food products were welcomed to each set up little tables and displays with their wares throughout the store, where they talked with customers and provided samples of their hand-made/hand-grown foods. While a similar experience might be found at some (a minority of) weekend "Farmers' Markets," it is well-known that these markets are dominated by resellers of wholesale foods, and not by the actual farmers/cooks/etc. who made the foods themselves by hand. These WF occasions were especially popular during holiday seasons. Again, to no one's surprise, Amazon terminated this wonderful feature that contributed greatly to making the pre-Amazon WF stores so wonderful. Every retailer has to balance its variety of products against the quantity and rate of each product's sales. In general, higher-end retailers of every kind tend to have that balance be more toward variety and uniqueness than lower-end retailers. This was always a hallmark of WF--their stores had many food items a shopper would be unlikely to find elsewhere. When Amazon took over, the balance shifted dramatically, and most of the more interesting, unique (and often, more expensive) food items vanished from WF shelves. While a few remain, overall WF product selection is now not much different from regional grocery stores--with the exception (as noted in the video) of a greater emphasis on organic and more healthful (no HFCS, etc.) foods. To make this worse, WF's 365 store brand, while not bad, is routine and does not include unique products. I will stop here to let my anger at Amazon's WF management subside a bit. But I could tell you about how Amazon changed the WF stores' music to appeal more to Gen Y and Z shoppers, and a variety of other annoying and degraded damages Amazon has made to WF. Maybe I'll come back later when I'm not so angry about it.

I can not believe all the comments are about the food at Whole Foods etc. Is no one worried about the palm scanner???!!!

I live in mobile, Alabama so my location was one of the six stores that got shut down. Mississippi's Whole Foods is still open and ours is closed. I was almost exclusively shopping there for my groceries and I'm absolutely devastated. I hate they ever bought that food chain.

As a previous WFM employee before Amazon took over; it was WAY better before the acquisition! The quality has DECLINED RAPIDLY

A little perspective on grocery technology: Self-checkout debuted in 1998. And yet, 24 years later, I always see at least one if not two staff members at every self-checkout area. Technology frequently gets things wrong and sensors break all the time.

I’m conflicted about going to Amazon/WF. WF’s bought out a beloved local Organic Grocery Store in our town, but they kept the butchers and home made sausages. Then Amazon bought WF’s. The prices doubled and for about 6 months they took away the fresh butcher made sausages. It was awful. Now Amazon brought in their own brands and have self checkout. I refuse to use self checkout because if I’m going to pay that much for food I want someone to bag it and carry it out for me. I remain conflicted, but I still shop there because of the butchers. I get my fruit and vegetables from the farmers market and all the other items from TJ and Costco. Everyone carries some Organic food now, and a lot still delivers. Amazon is no longer the new shinny object, especially with inflation the way it is.

Since Amazon bought it, I no longer shop there. Thank goodness there are many other options in my area.

I used to spend a lot of money at Whole Foods. When Amazon took over many of the quality allergen free food brands I prefer were no longer available. For those products I now shop at Natural Grocers.

Amazon should let Whole Foods be it’s own entity. The constant meddling with Prime memberships and their data collecting approach is very invasive. Third party data mining isn’t going to attract more customers nor is the “easy check out” biometric camera systems. But knowing how impatient people have become,they’ll comply. They just want part time employees to stock the shelves and AI tech nerds to maintain the infrastructure. Sadly, this vapid approach for the next generation of consumers will lose touch with where food comes from.

We need local community gardens and stop depending on someone else to feed us, especially when friends of corporations want us to eat bugs while they eat Kosher , we need to know what we are putting in our mouths and our bodies and at least whilst doing so we know what our own Agenda is for feeding ourselves .

I used to work in a SC warehouse for amazon. I was told bezos didn't want employees to stay to long because he thought people would get lazy and complacent. I'm not sure if this is the same for wholefoods, but now they went through so many people and fired so many and got rid of actual quality employees, who the hell will they hire if they just fired half a city......

I left Whole Foods right as Amazon was creeping in. It was a company that drastically lost its way already by that time and anyone thinking they’re supporting or working for a good company is dead wrong. They are truly the epitome of an evil corporation.

Whole Foods hot food bar was amazing before Amazon, now it's trash. I don't have anything to attract me to the store anymore.

The classic evolution where hippie turns into yippie, turns into yuppie and into psychopath.

Anyone else REALLY hope this isn't the future? I feel like we're at a weird place in society where we have so much technology we're trying to force it into all aspects of life. Grocery stores are fine how they are, this doesn't make anything better in my opinion

I use to work at whole foods before amazon required them. They combined departments, eliminated positions and a lot of people quit. A lot of the culture and community that whole foods brought and promoted was no more. Extremely sad to see what happened the whole foods through my state. I use to be a beer buyer for a pretty popular location and was one of the more enjoying jobs I've had within the industry now before Amazon came into play.

I shop at WF occasionally but what I’ve noticed about the healthier grocery stores compared a Walmart is that when both stores carry the same brand, Walmart always has the better price. I’ve been noticing that Walmart has been getting more brands that I used to only see at WF and so naturally I’m shopping less at WF and more at Walmart because I want more for my money.. This is what WF has to figure out. How can they compete with Walmart’s prices on the same foods? A food giant like Walmart could continue taking brands sold at WF stores and selling them cheaper OR they could open specific stores that only carry foods with more wholesome ingredients and there goes a great chunk of WF customers bc the prices will be better at Walmart

I have to admit before Amazon bought Whole Foods I had never shopped at one. The reputation kept me away as we already had Trader Joe’s. Since Amazon’s purchase it is so convenient to shop when I drop of an Amazon return. My wife likes their prepared food. There still isn’t a killer product that draws me to the store consistently.

I went to the DC store on 14th Street. It all went fine: Priced correctly and there were two of us shopping on one account. The store was relatively small compared to a full-sized Whole Foods. And so they did not have as much stuff as I was expecting. The choices seemed a bit more in line with convenience than “specialty” or “organic.” Getting set up took a little while, but the staff was friendly. It was weird walking out without going to a cash register. I moved out of the city so haven’t been back. If it were 24 hours grocer, then that would have been terrific for me (night owl).

I stared working for whole foods February 2017 we were bought out June 2017... best 4 months of my life

Used to shop whole foods often enough but was selective and looked for sales. Stores seemed to go down in terms of quality and morale of the workers after it was taken over. Since then I have shopped there probably 4 times over then last 5 years.

I was a loyal Whole foods customer. I would bypass the Publix and Kroger near where I luve to go there. However, over the past 3-4 years, I've been very frustrated with the high prices, process of taking away fresh baked goods out of the bakery and doing the baking at their warehouse. The items on the hot bar are constantly the same opposed to previous Amazon days. I'm starting to shop at Publix and Sprouts for more affordable items now. The palm scan also kind of weirds me out for a lot of reasons.

I worked at Whole Foods back in the late 00's. It was a company going through bad identity crisis. Most of its workers were hippies and free spirits, customers were image chasing affluent new-yuppies, and its treatment of workers was out of line with its stated goals. Best thing it had going for me was free health insurance. Ultimately the mediocre pay and out of touch management at my store drove me out of there in just over a year.

“Just walk out shopping” is more about buying behavior data than convenience for a customer.

While Foods used to be good. Ever since Amazon bought them, it has been going downhill.

It's a disgrace our regulators even allowed this acquisition to go through

I worked at WFM for a decade and I must say it was one of the greatest jobs I've ever had. There was nothing like it. We were treated well, we were paid well and we worked hard. Now...I can hardly stand to shop at WFM. It's happening everywhere; passion overshadowed by technology, money and greed.

SMH! We will sell our souls for "convenience". Imagine walking into a shop with cameras tracking your EVERY move!