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Whole Foods has canned a controversial rule barring employees from wearing poppies in honor of Remembrance Day, Canada’s holiday for fallen soldiers, following a cascade of criticism.
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Canadians are up in arms after Whole Foods banned its employees from wearing poppies in honor of Remembrance Day, the nation’s holiday for fallen soldiers.
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More than 100 truck drivers who deliver gourmet groceries to Whole Foods stores in the New York area are threatening to strike over COVID-19 safety issues, The Post has learned.
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Amazon has unveiled its next move in its quest to eliminate the supermarket checkout line. The e-commerce giant on Thursday said it is opening a high-tech supermarket in Los Angeles which will be equipped with sensors and cameras that will allow customers with shopping carts to walk out without stopping to pay a cashier. The …
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More than a dozen workers sued Whole Foods after the grocery giant allegedly punished some of them for wearing “Black Lives Matter” face masks on the job. The 14 workers in four states say staffers were sent home without pay, formally disciplined or even fired for donning the masks in solidarity with the nationwide movement …
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Whole Foods is reportedly using an “interactive heat map” to monitor its stores and flag locations that are at risk of unionizing. The Amazon-owned supermarket chain — whose 510 stores employ 95,000 nationwide — scores each of its stores on a number of factors, including employee “‘loyalty,’ turnover, and racial diversity” according to Business Insider, …
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Amazon’s moves to reduce strain on its grocery businesses by putting new online shoppers on wait lists and switching more Whole Foods resources to filling orders, is unmasking limitations at the company that was expected to upend the supermarket industry. The coronavirus pandemic should be Amazon’s moment to shine. Some 90 percent of US shoppers …
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Amazon’s grocery delivery services will no longer accept any new customers, at a time when locked down shoppers desperately look for alternatives to brick and mortar grocery stores. Anyone who enrolls beginning Monday will instead be added to a waitlist — with an indefinite wait time. Prior to the announcement Sunday, Amazon customers have complained …
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos visited one of his company’s warehouses as well as a Whole Foods grocery store on Wednesday, making rare public appearances as employees have raised complaints about working conditions amid the coronavirus pandemic. Bezos, donning skinny jeans, a slim-fit button down shirt and a face mask, toured an unspecified Amazon warehouse and …
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The coronavirus has created a weird divide among the Big Apple’s grocery stores — and the supermarkets that cater to the rich have been caught on the wrong side. Initial waves of citywide binge-shopping in mid-March spurred social media posts of wiped-out shelves and empty freezer bins at Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. But since …
Whole Foods has canned a controversial rule barring employees from wearing poppies in honor of Remembrance Day, Canada’s holiday for fallen soldiers, following a cascade of criticism. The
