Amazon-owned Whole Foods is cutting several hundred corporate jobs as part of a planned reorganization, the company informed employees on Thursday.
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"must find a mass grocery format that we believe is worth expanding broadly" to make a larger impact on brick-and-mortar grocery.Dear Team Members, 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: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 innovations.
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