When I taking graphic design classes one teacher I had designed product labels and packaging for major companies. Well he’d go stores like Wal-mart and Target to do research. How they have shelves stocked and what competition was doing. So that they could do better designs. This was at the time when 35mm was still the…

Holy shit that’s a huge store... Our PF team was maybe ten people, tops.

I think my position capped out at $13.50/hr back when I was working there, but I never made over $12.30/hr, and that was only for a few months after I had already told my STL I was leaving to go to college. Pretty good money back then (early 00’s), though it’s not like I was supporting a family.

I can tell you that it was, at least at my store. I haven’t worked there since 2004. The pay was a bit low, but that was mainly an issue of sales at our store being lower than most. We were what’s called a “direct competition” store—a WholeFoods located right next to another grocery store. Also, we were one of the…

No complaints. Pay was decent, management was great, perks were nice. This was back before the days of work schedules being determined by computers or people always being on call or things like that. I don’t recall any issues about number of hours or benefits or anything like that—at least not for the lack of them.

Yeah, when I first went around and audited our Toledo scales I found out that the one they were using in the Produce back room for the pre-cut fruit was missing one of its feet—which meant it wasn’t balanced and was spitting out wildly different weights depending on where on the scale you placed the product. IIRC, it…

Yep. The store I was at started getting serious about this sort of thing a few months after I became SSI (was Grocery for a year before that). We got training from Virginia W&M reps, were issued 5lb weights for daily scale testing (which we had to log) etc etc. They also started working to standardize packaging (and…

Whole Check has racked up 800 violations over 107 different inspections in the last five years. They’ve paid $58,000 in fines.

Mackey is a nut. Thankfully his board of directors is far more level-headed. I remember a few years ago when he started talking about getting rid of all the junk food and only selling health food. He almost lost the company.

I don’t feel superior when I shop at WholeFoods. Everyone there is younger, hotter and in way better shape than me. (Or older, hotter and in way better shape than me.) And the yoga pants, by God the yoga pants...

Back in 2002(?) when we voted yes/no for union representation, our store leadership was very fair about it. No horror stories or visible biases (or shitty corporate videos), just framed the decision as maintaining the status quo vs. unknown changes. We voted it down.

I worked for several years as a Store Systems Integrator at Whole Foods and was in charge of day-to-day price/scan accuracy and auditing.

I went to high school in Fairfax county. Our school resource officer liked to rob banks in his spare time. We also had a FCPD Lieutenant (retired? *shrug*) as one of our school administrators.

The large hanger was built to hide a smaller hanger.

Because those competitors don’t already carry NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, E!, SyFy, Bravo, G4, USA, TWC, etc etc?

I remember reading something semi-recently on Wired about some new fake chicken that actually got the texture and everything pretty close to the real thing. Anyone know what it’s called?

Retiring to a non-U.S.-extradition-treaty country, I’m sure.

Doesn’t help not being grouped with the other major news networks in cable lineups. I’m in DC and even here Comcast doesn’t offer AJAM in HD.

Hope they can get their shit together. Easily the best news/journalism on TV.

Shockingly, this is exactly what happened. Hard to believe, right?