Amazon-owned Whole Foods is laying off hundreds of corporate employees to reorganize some teams as part of its cost-cutting efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the next two months, the supermarket chain will restructure certain global and regional support teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A company spokesperson said the cuts represent less than half of its headcount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read More: Meta to announce new layoffs that could hit technical staff<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The executive team said in a memo: \u201cAs the grocery industry continues to rapidly evolve, and as we \u2014 like all retailers \u2014 have navigated challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic and continued economic uncertainty, it has become clear that we need to continue to build on these changes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWith additional adjustments, we will be able to further simplify our operations, make processes easier, and improve how we support our stores.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whole Foods, which operates in nine different regions, will reduce its operations to six. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Read More: ESPN to eliminate jobs amid Disney\u2019s massive layoffs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The memo says the move won\u2019t close stores or axe any store or distribution center workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The spokesperson said the company is looking to expand and better serve customers by altering its operating structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whole Foods has seen multiple operational changes since Amazon purchased it for $13.7 billion in 2017. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2021 it merged its global and regional merchandising teams and turned its technology team focuses on software engineering, technical product, and program manager roles to \u201csustain our growth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Need Career Advice? <\/strong>Get employment skills advice at all levels of your career<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently paused the growth of its Fresh retail network as part of a companywide attempt to save costs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It also closed some Fresh and Go cashier-less convenience outlets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In a recent wave of layoffs announced in January, several employees in Amazon’s grocery division were let go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, Jassy said he believes Amazon has the potential to expand its grocery line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: <\/strong>CNBC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on YouTube<\/strong><\/a>, Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, and Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amazon-owned Whole Foods is laying off hundreds of corporate employees to reorganize some teams amid broad cost-cutting efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1065,1372],"tags":[57,977],"class_list":["post-41509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-business-news","category-us-employment-news","tag-amazon","tag-layoffs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}