Whole Foods Market

Happy #NationalVinegarMonth 🎉 In honor, we're revisiting this conversation between our Chief Merchandising and Marketing Officer, Sonya Gafsi Oblisk, and Kosterina founder Katerina (Katina) Mountanos. In this episode, Katina — a certified olive oil sommelier — shares what actually makes olive oil exceptional, before pivoting to one of our Top 2026 Food Trends, "Very Vinegar," and what's exciting her about this new exploration of flavor and wellness. 🎧 Give this one a listen (or a re-listen!) via the link below or wherever you stream your podcasts. #BeyondTheBoard #VeryVinegar #TeamWFM

We just opened our doors in Wood Wharf, London! 🇬🇧 More than 150 enthusiastic customers queued up for our fourth of six new stores across the city — located in Canary Wharf's newest district. Highlights from the day included: 🤝 Donations to Bow Food Bank, FoodCycle Bow Road, Neighbours In Poplar and Tower Hamlets Food Havens 🚐 Stuffing our Nourishing our Neighbourhoods van with food to be redistributed with long-time partner The Felix Project 🌱 Over 154 local products from suppliers and producers across England 🛒 9,200+ square feet of fresh produce, prepared foods and pantry staples 🧀 A speciality department celebrating cheesemakers and artisan producers with local and premium beers, wines and spirits 🐟 Meat and seafood assortment featuring a variety of convenient grab-and-go offerings 🥐 Bakery department offering fresh bread daily and everyday favourites, like Whole Foods Market's Viennoiserie, brown butter cookies and a wide variety of gluten and dairy-free brownies, doughnuts and biscuits 💚 Congratulations to all 35 Wood Wharf Team Members, including Store Team Leader Stefano Cirimele! 🎉 #NSO #WoodWharf #NourishGrowth #TeamWFM

21 food and beverage companies have partnered with Mad Agriculture in support of something we believe in: Wilding. Wilding is an innovative regenerative agriculture framework. It integrates native prairies, riparian buffers, and perennial plantings into working agricultural landscapes, starting with the acres already underperforming; rebuilding water quality, biodiversity, and soil health so the land that feeds us can also sustain the ecosystems it depends on. This illustration is the first glimpse of the Wild Grid: a living map of what reconnected American farmland could look like. Over the next three weeks, we will zoom out from the species and habitats that anchor it, to the regional corridors that connect them, to the full continental vision. Follow along as the picture grows. A 3-year pilot is launching now in Wisconsin's Driftless Region. If you want to understand the full vision, the White Paper is the place to start >> https://lnkd.in/ee4tWA-Z White paper written by Dan Kane and Omar de Kok-Mercado. Illustration by Catie Michel. #WeAreWilding Whole Foods Market, Adams Group, Ancient Nutrition, Applegate, Bel Brands USA Foodservice, Bob's Red Mill, The Campbell's Company, KIND, Little Sesame, Marianne's Harvest, MegaFood, New Belgium Brewing, Oatly, OLIPOP PBC, Patagonia Provisions, TreeHouse Foods, UNFI, UNFI FOUNDATION, west~bourne, Yerba Madre, Yogi

What a beautiful way Matt Rodbard captured our sourcing trip to the Basque Country with our partners at Conservas Ortiz. He has a way of turning a sourcing trip into a story about purpose, culture, sustainability, and the people who bring it all to life. Proud to share this one with Julia Merid, Carrie Brownstein and Veronica Delia. 🎙️ 🎣 🛒 🌎 #teamwfm LISTEN: https://lnkd.in/eRnrtt94

“The thing I love most about Whole Foods Market is the ability to carve your own path. I started my journey in 2021 as a Creative Resource Manager in Marketing Operations, and over time, I grew into a Senior Creative Resource Manager role. In my day-to-day, I make sure our creatives stay fulfilled and our project managers have the resources they need to achieve our marketing goals. On the side, I completed an 84-hour certification program to become a Sensory Panelist — which means I get to taste food and objectively describe it (yes, it's as cool as it sounds 🥳). Getting to combine my love of food with the bigger-picture work I do every day is incredibly rewarding, but my fellow Team Members are the main reason why I enjoy what I do. I love supporting our creatives, project managers, channel teams and program owners, and I'm excited for the future because there's truly never a dull moment at Whole Foods." — Sam Tran, Senior Creative Resource Manager #NourishPeople #NourishGrowth #TeamWFM

A new Whole Foods Market store just opened in downtown Jacksonville! 🎊 Our newest location at 1 Riverside Ave. brings 38,432 square feet of quality to the heart of the city — featuring more than 800 local products from 115+ Florida-based suppliers, sourced with the help of Forager for Local & Emerging Brands, Dustin Kennedy. Paying homage to the site's history, vertical wooden slat walls nod to the Florida Times-Union newspaper building that once stood there, with soft green and blue hues reflecting the water and sky along the historic Brooklyn neighborhood's riverfront. Highlights from the day included: ☕ Enjoying opening morning with samples from La Gringuita Gourmet Cookies and Bold Bean Coffee Roasters — first 300 customers in line received a limited-edition Jacksonville tote bag! 🚐 Hosting a Stuff the Van event for Nourishing Our Neighborhood partner Gleaner's Dispatch and donating to Hunger Fight and United Community Outreach Ministry 🛒 A curated grocery section packed with local gems including ice pops from The Hyppo Gourmet Ice Pops, honey from Bee Friends Farm and snacks from The Lentil House 🍖 Full-service meat, seafood and specialty cheese counters staffed by expert butchers, fishmongers and trained cheesemongers — with local highlights Adams Ranch Natural Beef, Cedar Key Seafarms littleneck clams, Key West Smoked Fish Inc dips and hand-pulled mozzarella from MOZZARITA, INC. 🍺 An extensive beverage selection with more than 500 wines and 200 craft beers, including local favorites from Swamp Head Brewery, Intuition Ale Works and BOLD CITY BREWERY, LLC 💚 Congratulations to all 147 Jacksonville Downtown Team Members, Store Team Leader Josh Isaacs, and Associate Store Team Leaders Rob McBride and Kendra Wright for a wonderful opening! #NSO #JacksonvilleDowntown #NourishGrowth #TeamWFM

🎙️ #ICYMI: Kimono Mom joined us on Beyond the Board! From geisha to global entrepreneur — Moe, Kimono Mom, founder of Kimono Mom, turned personal hardship into a thriving business built on authenticity and Japanese home cooking. In this episode, host Sonya Gafsi Oblisk explores Moe's path from navigating postpartum depression to building a community of more than 2 million followers across 190 countries. What started as a YouTube channel to reconnect with her love of cooking became a movement that led her Umami sauce to more than 100 of our stores nationwide. This is a conversation about resilience, cultural storytelling, and what it means to build a brand rooted in purpose. 🎧 Listen now — link in comments. #BeyondTheBoard #KimonoMom #NourishPurpose #TeamWFM

What happens to food that doesn't sell but is still perfectly good? At Whole Foods Market, it doesn't go to waste — it goes to work. Through Nourishing Our Neighborhoods, we fund refrigerated vans that pick up surplus food from our stores and deliver it to community food–rescue programs. That food becomes meals for our neighbors and their families. Each van has the capacity to: 🥬 Rescue 20,0000 lbs per week 🌍 Keep 1,040,000 lbs of food out of landfills each year 🍽️ Share the equivalent of 866,666 meals annually The program has since expanded to include mobile pantry events — free, farmers market–style distributions serving 700+ families. All of our Nourishing Our Neighborhoods partners are part of our Grocery Rescue Program with Food Donation Connection, matching local organizations for weekly pickups with all of our stores. None of this happens without our Team Members, partners and volunteers showing up. Together, we're building a more sustainable food system. #NourishGrowth #FoodWaste #CommunityImpact #TeamWFM

"My journey with Whole Foods Market began in 2016 on the Incident Management and Recall Team, where I gained comprehensive knowledge of our product assortment. In 2018, I joined the Quality Standards team, where I ensure that dietary supplement ingredients and products meet our rigorous standards. My work in dietary supplements recently led to an exciting milestone — I was elected to the Board of Trustees of the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), where I'm proud to be the only trustee representing retail. I look forward to serving alongside fellow trustees and contributing to AHPA's continued growth and impact. Whole Foods offers a wide variety of quality dietary supplements, and I consistently recommend our 365 brand private label products to friends and family. These products deliver exceptional value while maintaining the rigorous quality standards our customers expect. I'm proud to work with the private label team to consistently bring innovative, high-quality products to our shelves. I was drawn to Whole Foods because of our commitment to selling the highest quality natural and organic foods. My favorite aspect of our culture is seeing that commitment shared across our teams, all working toward meaningful goals. Whether it's ensuring high quality standards for our products, supporting more-sustainable practices or serving our customers with integrity, everyone here is united by a common purpose. This collective commitment creates an environment where collaboration thrives, and each person's contribution feels genuinely impactful. People may join Whole Foods Market for various reasons, but they stay because of the people they work alongside. I am deeply grateful to be surrounded by such brilliant, supportive and dedicated professionals.” — Kathy Wickenden, Program Manager II, Dietary Supplements #NourishPeople #NourishGrowth #TeamWFM

"Hello! I'm Stefano, and I'll be opening our new Whole Foods Market store in Wood Wharf at the end of the month. 🥳 When I joined Whole Foods, I was immediately fascinated by the passion our teams have for good, healthy and delicious food. Throughout my years in food retail, I've rarely seen that same level of genuine care for both product quality and people — it's something truly unique. I'm incredibly excited to open the Wood Wharf store. These past months have been especially energizing as we grow our London, U.K., presence from six to 12 stores, with Wood Wharf becoming our first location on the east side of the city. Situated in the heart of Canary Wharf — one of the busiest areas of the capital — the store will offer fresh and exciting lunch options for our customers, alongside a fantastic selection of our best Whole Foods Market products. What I’m most looking forward to is building a brand-new team. I can’t wait to start working with people from many different backgrounds and experiences, each bringing something unique to the table. Together, we're creating a store that hopefully will become a true landmark for the local community — and a great place to grow a career. See you at 4 Water Street, Wood Wharf, London, E14 5GX on May 28!" — Stefano Cirimele, Store Team Leader, Wood Wharf #NSO #WoodWharf #NourishGrowth #TeamWFM