Did you know that Whole Foods has been ranked as one of the 100 best places to work by Fortune for the last 18 consecutive years?

Did you know that the original name of the Whole Foods was “SaferWay” — because, you know, that was originally how Whole Foods founders wanted to one-up Safeway with their awesomeness?

 Did you know that Whole Foods last year, sales were $15.4 billion?

Did you know that Whole Foods offers more than 2600 natural and organic products, as well as its 365 Everyday Value products?

Did you know that if a brand manages to get eye-level rack space in Whole Foods, the brand has officially made it, Why? Because shoppers are willing to shell out more than $5 per bottle of kombucha and would rather save up from local, organic produce from Whole Foods than a fancy meal at a restaurant?

Did you know that John Mackey, the CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods, has been making $1 per year since 2007?

Did you know that Mackey doesn’t take home a bonus, nor does he have any stock options, he said “I have reached a point in my life where I no longer want to work for money,” Mackey told employees in a letter in 2007?
 

Did you know that Whole Foods has been ranked as one of the 100 best places to work by Fortune for the last 18 consecutive years? 

Did you know that Whole Food has also been credited as the top job creator, having increased the number of employees by 784% since the Fortune list began?

Did you know that Whole Food has more than 85,000 team members and Whole Foods is the titan of the high-end grocery store industry? 

Did you know that several times a year, our stores hold community giving days (known as “5% Days”) where five percent of that day’s net sales are donated to a local nonprofit or educational organization?

Did you know that Whole Foods Markets stopped using disposable plastic bags at checkout on Earth Day 2008, keeping 150 million plastic bags out of the landfills since then?

Did you know that Whole Foods started with 19 Team Members in 1980, and several of them are still with us?

Our Local Producer Loan Program (LPLP) provides up to $10 million in low-interest loans to support small local farmers and producers.

With "the crack heard round the world," Whole Foods Market was recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records for "the most wheels of parmigiano reggiano ever cracked at the same time."

Did you know that the Whole Foods in Glastonbury, CT store was the first supermarket to generate power from an on-site fuel cell?

Did you know Whole Foods Market was once under seven feet of water? The 11,000 sq ft building that housed it in the early 1980s (now a used music store) was hit by the Memorial Day flood in 1981. What we learned: oranges float. Wine bottles don’t?

Did you know that Team Members. Lee Tobin. a baker from our Chapel Hill store began experimenting with gluten-free baking and by October 2004, he was proud to fire up the gluten-free ovens in a new, completely separate, dedicated facility: the Whole Foods Market Gluten Free Bakehouse?

Did you know that in 2006, Whole Foods purchased enough renewable energy credits from wind farms to offset 100% of the electricity used in all stores and facilities in the U.S. and Canada?

 

Did you know that it was the largest wind energy credit purchase in the history of North America?

Our Team Members are very generous folks. They have donated over $500,000 to the Whole Planet Foundation, funding 2,700 microloans and helping over 13,000 people work to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.

Did you know that Whole Foods commissary kitchen in Massachusetts gets 100% of its electricity from recycled cooking oil?

Did you know that CEO John Mackey “a man who has done more to improve the quality, sustainability, healthfulness, and purity of the food Americans eat—from farm field and barnyard to kitchen table—than anyone else in the past 25 years?

 

Every month our Westport, CT store names Team Members “King and Queen of Customer Service.” The King and Queen get to do a “shop til you drop” for 2 minutes in our grocery aisles, collecting as many 365 Everyday Value products as they possibly can. Normally Team Members go home with 2 to 3 carts full of groceries, and get to have the rest of the Team Members cheer them on and yell what they should be picking up.

Did you know that Whole Foods Markets are on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr?

 Did you know that Whole Foods offers double discounts on its produce once Friday afternoon rolls around, so weekends are by far the best time to score a deal?

Did you know that Whole Foods hires cheese lovers who have received credentials from the American Cheese Society?

Did you know that only 406 people have passed its certification exam, so we’re talking serious prestige in the cheese world?

Did you know that at Whole Foods, all salaries are available for any employee to discover, Mackey believes that having a transparent salary empowers employees and motivates them to do more?

Did you know that Whole Foods Market is now the largest supermarket retailer of natural and organic food products in the world?

Did you know that if you had the power of teleportation, you could visit a different Whole Foods Market store every single day of the year — and into the next year. There are 385 Whole Foods locations around America, Canada and the U.K?

John Mackey and Rene Lawson,

Did you know that Whole Foods founders, John Mackey and Rene Lawson, lived at the flagship store
in Austin for a while after opening it, because they got kicked out of their apartment for storing food products in it. They bathed using the dishwasher shower hose?

Did you know that Whole Food
’ commitment to natural food products is evident by its enduring commitment to research unhealthy additives and add them to its ever-growing list of unacceptable ingredients. Hydrogenated fats, artificial colors, preservatives, and sweeteners are strictly prohibited from being in every product sold at the grocery chain?

Did you know that New Orleans was home to the first Whole Foods store outside of Texas and sixth overall, opening in 1988?

Did you know that the Whole Food company isn’t just concerned about organic foods; Whole Foods opened its own gluten-free bake house in Raleigh, N.C. in 2004?

Austin flagship Whole Foods

Did you know that the Austin flagship Whole Foods is unsurprisingly the largest of all the locations at 80,000 square feet. It has a 25,000-square-foot roof garden, a plaza with 200 shaded seats, space for entertainers, a playscape, a flowing stream and native landscaping — oh and an ice skating rink o?

Did you know that Detroit Mayor Dave Bling called the Whole Food store’s opening in the troubled city a “game changer?”

Did you know that The Edgewater, Ill. location outside of Chicago opening later this month was built to accommodate two or three “hangouts,” which could include a tap room or wine bar so people would “linger longer” in the store?


Did you know that animal products have to meet a strict set of regulations to make it onto Whole Foods Market shelves, including: no antibiotics, no hormones, no animal by-product ingredients, animals traceability to farms, pasture-based farming (animals can have only very limited time in barns), no castration or tail docking allowed, natural weaning, and animals must be in a four-hour proximity to the slaughter facilities?

Did you know that you can even buy vegan cane sugar at Whole Foods ?


 

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