“Whole Foods Launches Two-Day Boise Hiring Blitz”

Whole Foods officials are hoping to take the keys to their $13.4 million Broadway Avenue store Tuesday, Oct. 23. In the meantime, they’re busy hiring as many as 200 employees, or as they like to call them, “team members.” In fact, nearly 500 applicants poured into the Owyhee Plaza Hotel Oct. 8-9 in hopes of landing a job.

“We had more than 240 applicants come in [Oct. 9], and we had about that many come in for interviews [Oct. 8],” said Theresa Schuller from Whole Foods’ Boulder, Colo., office, who shepherded would-be butchers, bakers and cashiers through a series of meetings with Whole Foods interviewers.

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