Whole Foods Market

Who owns it

No filing-sourced ownership yet. That means we haven’t found a filing — not that the company has no owners.

2 further ownership links are recorded, but not from a filing we can point you to, so they are not shown here.

What’s documented

• 2026-03-07laborRelationsPeople's Union USA organized a week-long Amazon boycott from March 7-14, 2026, as part of its rolling corporate boycott series; the campaign targets Amazon's labor practices in fulfillment centers (injury rates above industry average), DEI rollbacks, tax avoidance strategies, and environmental impact of rapid delivery infrastructure; a Numerator survey found 43% of Amazon shoppers were aware of the boycott though only 9% planned to participatesource →
• 2026-02-15otherThe Minocqua Marketplace, a pro-democracy e-commerce platform built to help consumers boycott Amazon and other corporations perceived as supporting MAGA-aligned politics, raised over $100,000 in two weeks through a Kickstarter campaign in early 2026source →
• 2026-02-01otherIn February 2026, NYU professor Scott Galloway launched the 'Resist and Unsubscribe' campaign urging consumers to cancel subscriptions to Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix, Uber, OpenAI, Paramount+, and X for one month, citing concerns about Big Tech cooperation with Trump administration immigration enforcement policiessource →
• 2026-02-01otherNYU professor Scott Galloway launched the 'Resist and Unsubscribe' campaign in February 2026 targeting Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and other tech companies, calling on consumers to cancel Amazon Prime and other subscriptions to protest Big Tech's relationship with the Trump administrationsource →
• 2026-01-10lobbyingUnion leaders criticized Telus for receiving lucrative federal and provincial government contracts and subsidies while cutting thousands of jobs; USW and CUPE lobbied the federal government to attach job-preservation conditions to telecom subsidiessource →
• 2026-01-09laborRelationsTelus offered voluntary severance packages to approximately 700 more employees across Canada in January 2026, totaling nearly 1,400 severance offers in under a year; customer complaints to the CCTS rose 62% in 2025 compared to 2024source →
• 2025-08-01regulatoryActionVanguard was ordered to pay a $19.5 million civil penalty by the SEC for disclosure failures related to adviser compensation. Between August 2020 and December 2023, Vanguard tied parts of advisers' performance evaluations and bonuses to client enrollment and retention metrics in its Personal Advisor Services program, while marketing content downplayed or misstated these conflicts of interest.source →
• 2025-02-04laborRelationsAfter employees at a Philadelphia Whole Foods voted 130-100 to join the United Food and Commercial Workers union in January 2025, Amazon filed objections with the NLRB to block union certification at the storesource →
• 2025-02-01laborRelationsTelus offered voluntary severance packages to approximately 700 employees nationwide across network operations, engineering, and business solutions, continuing a restructuring that has eliminated roughly 3,300 jobs since 2023source →
• 2025-01-17regulatoryActionVanguard agreed to pay $106.41 million to settle SEC charges for misleading statements about capital gains distributions and tax consequences for retail investors holding Vanguard Investor Target Retirement Funds in taxable accounts. The SEC found Vanguard lowered minimum investment for Institutional TRFs from $100 million to $5 million in December 2020, triggering mass redemptions that generated unexpected taxable capital gains for remaining Investor TRF holders.source →
• 2025-01-15legalProceedingAmazon filed suit in federal court arguing the National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional, alongside SpaceX, in a case that labor advocates described as a 'direct attack' on the collective bargaining rights of private-sector workerssource →
• 2024-12-31lobbyingReported ~$60,000 in US federal lobbying activity (2024) on Agriculture, Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.).source →
• 2024-12-31lobbyingVanguard Group spent $2,650,000 on federal lobbying in 2024. The company's PAC made $502,046 in political contributions during the 2024 election cycle, including $382,500 to federal candidates.source →
• 2024-11-01legalProceedingTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in November 2024 against Vanguard Group, BlackRock Inc., and State Street Corporation, alleging the three asset managers conspired through ESG-aligned investment practices and climate coalitions to restrict coal production in violation of federal antitrust law.source →
• 2024-09-01environmentalVanguard supported zero environmental and social shareholder proposals during the 2024 proxy season, including declining to support any of the resolutions flagged by Climate Action 100+ investors. Vanguard also supported none of ten votes against company directors flagged by the initiative. Vanguard stated proposals were either financially immaterial, overly prescriptive, or that the companies receiving them already had adequate governance practices.source →
• 2024-06-01environmentalUrgewald's 2024 'Investing in Climate Chaos' report identified Vanguard as the world's single largest institutional investor in fossil fuels, with approximately $413 billion in fossil fuel company bonds and shares. Vanguard declined to adopt any fossil fuel exclusion policy and consistently voted against climate-related resolutions at portfolio companies.source →
• 2023-06-01regulatoryActionVanguard was fined $800,000 by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) for problems with account statements related to money market funds in 2019 and 2020.source →
• 2022-12-07environmentalVanguard announced its withdrawal from the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative in December 2022, stating that membership had caused 'confusion about the views of individual investment firms.' Vanguard cited its index fund model — in which approximately 80% of client assets are invested passively in benchmark indices — as a key factor, and stated it would pursue its climate disclosure positions independently.source →
• 2020-11-09lobbying1 federal lobbying registration on file with the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada (2020); subjects: Agriculture, Consumer Issues, Employment and Training, Environment.source →

What we’ve classified so far

• worker exploitation8
• environmental damage4
• political influence3
• monopoly abuse1

10 further documented actions have not been classified yet. These counts show what we have got to, not a total.