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Is Whole Foods Market laying off workers?

Not according to official filings. There is no WARN layoff notice from Whole Foods Market in the last 12 months. The most recent was filed Oct 1, 2024 for 90 jobs in Beaufort, South Carolina. WARN covers larger layoffs only, so smaller cuts may not appear.

728 roles affected across 7 filings in 5 states.

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No WARN filing or SEC event in the recent window — quiet on the wire right now.
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◆ NATIONAL FOOTPRINT · 5 states. Each state files its own WARN notice, so small per-state counts are slices of one distributed layoff. Ranked by jobs cut:
Illinois264Maryland136Washington121California117South Carolina90
Skilled TradesWarehouse Ops

Filing history

Whole Foods Market has filed 7 WARN notices between 2012 and 2024, cutting 728 jobs in total. No new filings in the last 12 months. The most recent was Oct 1, 2024.

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Every filing

Beaufort, South Carolina
Filed Oct 1, 2024 (2y ago) · Effective · · official filing →
90
Layoff
Chicago, Illinois
Filed Sep 12, 2022 (4y ago) · Effective · · official filing →
52
Layoff
Chicago, Illinois
Filed May 2, 2022 (4y ago) · Effective · · official filing →
128
Layoff
Tarzana, California
Filed Apr 29, 2022 (4y ago) · Effective May 6, 2022 · official filing →
117
Closure
Vancouver, Washington
Filed Jun 21, 2019 (7y ago) · Effective · · official filing →
121
Layoff
Landover, Maryland
Filed Jan 20, 2017 (9y ago) · Effective Feb 12, 2017 · official filing →
136
Layoff
Palatine, Illinois
Filed Jun 18, 2012 (14y ago) · Effective · · official filing →
84
Layoff

Questions

Is Whole Foods Market laying off employees?

Not according to official filings. There is no WARN layoff notice from Whole Foods Market in the last 12 months. The most recent was filed Oct 1, 2024 for 90 jobs in Beaufort, South Carolina. WARN covers larger layoffs only, so smaller cuts may not appear.

How many jobs is Whole Foods Market cutting?

728 jobs across all 7 official WARN filings on record since 2012, in 5 states.

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