r/Sproutsfarmersmarket

I’m in California, where they’ve charged ten cents for a grocery bag for a while. A couple months ago they passed a law that all disposable bags have to be paper now instead of plastic. Ok…

So tonight I stopped in and asked for a paper bag at checkout. The cashier told me they’re only for doordash and instacart, otherwise I have to buy their nylon-ish reusable bags at 25 cents each… um, what?

Is this a real policy? I asked for an exception and she gave me a paper bag, but how are you going to attempt to force your customers to buy nylon bags???

I work as the only frozen clerk at my store, we do not have a grocery ADM, so I do basically everything for my section for no extra money.I break the pallets, I work live load, I write my order, do my spot checks, pick list, manager specials, I have widdled my backstock down and am pretty much completely truck to shelf with a 97 OSA and have been consistently first and second in OSA in my district. All this, and they still expect me to do my Orchard in 4.5 hrs. I started in October, and I feel like I'm losing it, I want to quit so badly.

My store manager said that the more money our section makes, the more hours we get, but despite being 1,000 over my projected sales, I'm still being scheduled only 4- 4.5 hours 3x a week (on load days) and Sunday for 2 hrs to order. I have to beg for more hours, they change it for a week and then I'm back at 4 hours and I just don't have enough time to do anything. If anyone has any suggestions on what I can do, please let me know.

Is anyone’s else’s district manager / manager really getting to them? I work frozen and work orders that go between a bit above 5k to bigger orders 7k. When I first joined frozen it was take down the frozen pallets, fill frozen, tellicount, spot check, face. Our freezer was organized by boxes in areas they go (doors & bunker).

The district manager has implemented that all back stock product be taken out of boxes and scanned in and organized beautifully on shelves (we get a lot of back stock due to busy store). We now have a pick list to do. I have to read to read through orders to make sure all product has arrived. No left over backstock on u boats.

LISTEN…it sounds wonderful In a perfect world but I also need to take a lunch. Help customers. Answer calls. Separated deli - sushi - bakery - meat on pallet. Reorganize and clean freezer. Do other side quests. Make sure orders are done. Turn in receipts that everything came in or not by end of shift. They want everything done in a DAY or get talked to.“District manager came in and was disappointed how the shelves in freezer look.” Listen if you’ve seen freezer products and how bulky and weird shaped they are or how small and multi they are (sprouts rice, veggies packs, fruit packs) and the amount of room…it’s not going to look organized like a grocery back room okay I do my best :’)))

I’m tired of getting grilled because the district manager is implementing more than what’s possible for an 8 hour shift. The manager gets on me, I explain EVERYTHING that they’re giving me more and I explain the routine and all I’m told is “I’m just the messanger”. I extremely feel the district managers have no sense of what a regular employee goes through during a shift. I can see perhaps maybe smaller loads? But then there’s still so much they still expect with the amount of time. I know my work ethic and I kick ass and I’m proud of my work but I’m literally emotionally and physically drained after every shift. I loved working for Sprouts but I now loathe coming in. I’m starting to bring work stress home and like.. for wHAT!? I genuinely feel like I’m being exploited and I don’t like it!’

Was told he’s going to come back at an unexpected date to check our store like lol ok. Idk does anyone feel the same? If you have tips and tricks for a smoother shift please do share !

Thank you for reading this far 🫶🏻

I used some of my vacation time to take off for mothers day weekend and ended up being scheduled 8 days straight, before my 3 days off even starts. I used 16 hours of vacation time and 1 day unpaid. Should I expect to be scheduled like this any time I want to use my time off? Does my manager suck at scheduling ?

What’s happening to the food quality at Sprouts Farmers Market, particularly with the Sprouts brand? Over the past couple of years, there seems to have been a noticeable shift, and it raises concerns. Since the leadership change involving a former Walmart executive, it feels like cost-cutting may be taking priority over quality.
For example, the prepared salads appear to be getting smaller while also declining in freshness and overall quality. More concerning is the recent experience with Sprouts-branded “pasture-raised” eggs where the yolks were unusually pale, lacking the rich color typically associated with genuinely pasture-raised eggs. That inconsistency raises questions about sourcing and labeling standards.
Many customers choose Sprouts specifically for organic options, transparency, and a higher standard of integrity in food sourcing. When the quality begins to resemble that of lower-cost retailers while prices remain premium. it creates a disconnect that’s hard to ignore.

I recently started training roughly 4 days on meal preps in the morning, but I feel overwhelmed since im still learning what comes with what. I work tomorrow in a different station doing something different which I wont lie has me stressed in the morning. I was alone yesterday and I wont knoe how I did until today. The lack of people in the department is also something ive noticed. Is there any tips anyone could give me to improve quicker?

I've had some corporate dude come over and say "What are we talking about?" in the most passive aggressive way possible, when I'm saying hello to my job coach who was checking how things were going.

I'm a courtesy clerk working with cashiers (who weren't bagging any items at the time, and i make sure to call out if anyone does approach mid convo)... A coworker was complaining as well, so it wasn't just me having a bad experience.

Worst part is, the managers at my store are amazing, and you can tell they feel bad that they have to cut hours. I bet they have issues with corporate as well.

Anyone else having these issues?

Hired at Sprouts as a deli clerk a week ago. On boarding process was already kind of lacking. The administrative coordinator was in charge of onboarding process. She basically just told me to log into a website and do video modules on my first day. It was a 3 day process to finish onboarding and she didn’t bother to check up on me or ask if I had any questions. Clock in and clock out after videos. She would lounge around in her office with her “assistant”(who never introduced herself) all day. During onboarding in my previous jobs I was given tours around the store/kitchen and also introduced to managers and co workers. She just told me where the managers office would be when we passed by, which the managers were present at the time in the office. She did tell me the basics of PTO, dress code policy, schedules etc. You can tell she just wasn’t interested in welcoming a new hire, like she just wanted to get it over with. Getting tours and being introduced to my department isn’t and all be all but part of the onboarding process is to get a new hire acclimated into the company Is my point. Forgot to mention while she was on lunch with her “assistant” she sat outside the room I was doing my video modules in and they were gossiping about a recently hired deli clerk that resigned because he did not want to do the work and that it was hard. I know for a fact they made sure I could hear them because they were talking extra loud and I was able to hear them through my headphones.

I shrugged it off and thought maybe they’re just trying to scare me and my department training will be better. It wasn’t. First day of training I was introduced to my co workers and finally spoke with the manager. I was assigned to shadow someone but the trainer was also shady to me as well. She was teaching me the process of how to load up chicken in an oven and once she did that she told me to throw out cardboard (which she taught me) and once I got back from doing that, she was gone. I asked one of the senior deli workers there where had my trainer gone and she said she went on lunch. I was basically just standing there until the sr. deli worker told me to work on another task with her while my trainer came back and chickens were ready to come out the oven. My trainer never came back until an hr later (lunch is only 30 mins) and chickens were ready to be pulled out from oven. Which I didn’t mind because I have kitchen experience but as I was ready to pull out the chickens from the oven, the sr. deli clerk and manager was micromanaging me on how I was handling the chicken and how im not bagging it right because the chickens had to be labeled and bagged a certain way. Long story short my trainer came back but never offered to help me again. I asked her if she was still gonna show me the process of doing the cooked chicken and she said sorry they had asked her to stay at the deli taking orders (it was 8am there was no customers at the deli). From then on I was left out to dry. I was put in deli to take orders and make sandwiches after the person training me had left but no one showed me how to do anything. If I had any questions my co workers would look annoyed. Manager was in n out of the kitchen and I noticed the only time co workers would ask me if I needed anything was when manager was around. Mind you I wasn’t really shown around my department. I was only shown one walk in refrigerator to get the poultry and where to toss cardboard. Maybe I thought I would ease my way into learning the department but it’s opposite of that. If they want me to learn on my own there should be some kind of communication. Only wrote this post because another person who is also getting trained has a trainer with her at all times and she has kitchen experience as well like me. Is this sabotage on my end or is every sprouts like this?

Hi everyone! I’ve been an AC for about 7 years now, started initially with Sprouts as a back up AC but I’ve helped in almost every department over the years.

I’ve seen a few questions in this subreddit that the store’s AC should have answered and I’m hoping I can help so feel free to ask me whatever’s on your mind! I personally love to keep my team informed and to make their time with Sprouts as pleasant as possible. I’m in California so some policies may be different in another state but I’ll do my best to answer.

For years at sprouts I have been purchasing sprputs 15 percent grass fed ground beef and grass fed filet minougn steaks. The meat at sprouts tastes better than whole foods, safeway/vons and qfc/ralphs. What im curious about is where does sprouts meat come from??

Hi, does anyone know the pto policy or knows the amount of accrual for salaried store mgmt with sprouts?

I’m thinking of applying for the schematics position at another store, can anyone tell me more about the position like hours or anything I would need to know?

I really don’t have anyone to talk to about this so hopefully someone can help me on here.

So I am a Vitamin Department Manager. And since this new store manager came in it’s been chaotic and the ASM is only a temp and SM really doesn’t have a say in anything. So I noticed that another sprouts had opened up the AVM position and it’s way closer to my house than my current location. And for sure another sprouts is opening and they would be looking for a VM for sure! So what would yall do in this situation

They're opening a new Sprouts in my area, I have few years of warehouse experience, so I applied for the "Receiver" position, but was trying to do a little more research on the position itself but couldn't find anything specific on it, was wondering if there was any one on here who works or has worked at Sprouts that could tell me a little bit more about that position, thanks in advance

What questions do they ask in the interview? The sprouts near me is holding walk in interviews, and it would be my first interview ever so I’m super nervous. I applied for the bakery clerk position btw.

Got my back room in bulk basic down to nothing but coffee, promo, and spices. Took me a hot minute to get the regular coffee back to normal, and most importantly I got it to be truck to shell now which my ASM thought it was awesome.

Hello, I was just offered Bulk Manager position. I am an external hire, what can i expect?

I applied to be a courtesy clerk online and same day I got an invitation to interview. The job description didn’t mention cleaning the restrooms, just that you might have to clean up some spills in the store. But I looked online (including this subreddit) and it looks like you indeed have to clean the restrooms. 😭

I’m definitely not comfortable doing this (personal reasons I won’t get into) so I wanted to see if any of you could share insights. What has been your experience cleaning the restrooms? Are any Sprouts roles not expected to clean the restrooms at all?

Thank you!!

I’ve seen on TikTok that Sprouts is now doing a $30 “family meal deal” where you can select 2 proteins and 2 sides from the prepared food counter, but it’s not yet available at all locations, apparently. Does anyone know when this will be rolled out everywhere? If I call my local stores would they be able to inform me if they have the deal?