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   Amazon’s Whole Foods is letting go some corporate employees as part of a   
   planned reorganization of select teams, and as its parent company closely   
   examines costs.   
      
   Whole Foods plans to reorganize certain global and regional support teams   
   over the next two months, the company’s executive team wrote in a memo to   
   employees on Thursday. As a result, the upscale grocer is laying off   
   several hundred employees from those teams, a spokesperson confirmed. The   
   cuts translate to about less than half of a percent of the company’s   
   global workforce, a Whole Foods Market spokesperson said.   
      
   “We often talk about how simplifying our work and improving how we operate   
   is critical as we grow,” the executive team wrote in the memo. “We’ve made   
   great progress in these areas through previous operational and   
   organizational changes. As the grocery industry continues to rapidly   
   evolve, and as we — like all retailers — 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. With additional   
   adjustments, we will be able to further simplify our operations, make   
   processes easier, and improve how we support our stores.”   
      
   As part of the changes, Whole Foods, which operates across nine different   
   regions, will shift to six regions. The move won’t result in any store   
   closures or the letting go of any store or distribution center employees,   
   according to the memo.   
      
   Whole Foods is tweaking its operational structure as it seeks to expand   
   and better serve customers, the spokesperson said. The company has roughly   
   50 new stores in development, they added.   
      
   Amazon in 2017 spent $13.7 billion to acquire the upscale grocer, a move   
   that sent shock waves through that industry. The retail giant acquired   
   Whole Foods with the hopes of accelerating its multiyear push into selling   
   groceries online and in physical stores.   
      
   Whole Foods has undergone other operational changes since Amazon acquired   
   it. The company in 2021 merged its global and regional merchandising   
   teams, and shifted its technology team to focus on software engineering,   
   technical product and program manager roles, to “sustain our growth.”   
      
   Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently hit pause on expansion of its Fresh   
   supermarket chain amid a companywide effort to rein in expenses. It also   
   shuttered some Fresh locations and Go cashierless convenience stores. Some   
   employees in Amazon’s grocery unit were let go in a recent round of   
   layoffs announced in January.   
      
   Still, Jassy has said he remains confident about Amazon’s potential to   
   grow its grocery business. In his letter to shareholders last week, Jassy   
   said the e-commerce giant “must find a mass grocery format that we believe   
   is worth expanding broadly” to make a larger impact on brick-and-mortar   
   grocery.   
      
   Here’s the full memo:   
      
   Improving Our Operating Structure to Better Support Our Stores   
      
   Dear Team Members,   
      
   We often talk about how simplifying our work and improving how we operate   
   is critical as we grow. We’ve made great progress in these areas through   
   previous operational and organizational changes. As the grocery industry   
   continues to rapidly evolve, and as we — like all retailers — 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. With additional adjustments, we will be able to further   
   simplify our operations, make processes easier, and improve how we support   
   our stores.   
      
   To achieve this, we will evolve our operating structure and make a few   
   changes to certain Global and Regional Support teams over the next two   
   months. We see great opportunity to advance our impact on the world, and   
   these changes will help us fully capture that opportunity. These changes   
   include:   
      
   Shifting from nine to six regions with a more consistent number of stores   
   per region. Moving to fewer regions of similar sizes will allow us to   
   quickly make decisions, implement sustainable processes, and scale   
      
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