[throwwwwaway9]

So shelves are stocked as they were, say last year, and the media in trying to give the company a bad name?

>>Maybe she should have reached out to Whole Foods corporate and asked for comments?

When ever you want the truth, just call their PR department.

[dmix]

Corporate could at least explain why this might be happening and what they are doing.

A PR department is still better in my books compared to a few disgruntled employees from a few high traffic stores after a major change in both store traffic and company processes.

All companies go through growing pains and scaling issues, and I hardly expect much insight on those issues from the teenage stock boy at a Whole Foods.

[pbhjpbhj]

The "teenage stock boy" isn't supposed to be providing insight, the thread was questioning the facts of whether the shelves are empty.

The stock boy probably has more insight to that than any of us, and anyone at corporate. Indeed I'd expect only their direct manager, if anyone, to have a better insight on what is on the actual shelves.

Corporate will tell you what should be there; stock check will tell you after the fact what was there, ...

[ekianjo]

> When ever you want the truth, just call their PR department.

PR has their own bias but if they tell lies they can be sued for hiding/misrepresenting the truth, because they represent the company's official stance. Unless the company is doing something wrong that they need to cover up, I can't think why a PR answer could not be close to a honest answer.