Philadelphia, PA—Today, in a call with shareholders, Amazon announced $77.7 billion in net income for 2025, with net sales increasing 12%. Additionally, since Amazon’s 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods, sales have increased 40% and they’ve expanded to over 550 locations nationally. 

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Across the country, over 100,000 Amazon Whole Foods Workers provide essential grocery services, but struggle to afford food and housing for themselves and their families. In 2025, workers at a Philadelphia Whole Foods organized a union because their $17 starting wage was not enough to live on. Since then, Amazon-owned Whole Foods has tried delayed bargaining, sought to overturn the election outcome, violated federal labor law and has illegally retaliated against workers.

 

“Amazon Chairman Jeff Bezos is worth over $240 billion and Whole Foods executives are paid tens of millions of dollars a year. We, the workers of Whole Foods, are generating a significant portion of their wealth, but we continue to be squeezed. They have eroded our culture and increasingly treat us more like numbers than humans. Each new change chips away at our agency while they focus relentlessly on the bottom line. This evolution is not good for us and it’s not good for our customers and communities. We’re tired of being run ragged and taken for granted,” said Rob Jennings, a Philly Whole Foods worker and member of Whole Foods Workers United. “Amazon Whole Foods is trying to silence our collective voice, but we’re continuing to fight for what’s legally ours: our union of united Whole Foods workers.”

 

“Amazon’s financial success has been fantastic for shareholders, but disastrous for American workers. While Whole Foods workers make sure communities have groceries, Jeff Bezos hobnobs at exclusive billionaire dinners and takes his private jet to meet with President Trump,” said Wendell Young IV, President of UFCW Local 1776. “Whole Foods customers should know that they are continuing to enrich one of the world’s richest men.”

 

Last week, Amazon released plans to open over 100 Whole Foods stores in the next few years and convert many Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores into Whole Foods stores. 

 

According to the blog post, Amazon is one of the top three grocers in the U.S., with over $150 billion in gross sales and more than 150 million customers shopping groceries each year. Additionally, since Amazon’s 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods, sales have increased 40% and they’ve expanded to over 550 locations nationally.