Wild Oats cuts 15 local jobs as part of restructuring effort

BOULDER ? Wild Oats Markets Inc., the Boulder-based natural foods grocery chain, has laid off nearly 100 employees out of its 8,500-employee workforce. Fifteen employees at its Boulder headquarters were let go as part of the larger job reduction move. The company stated that most of the job cuts focused on marketing, purchasing and merchandising positions at its field offices.

According to a prepared statement from Perry Odak, the company’s president and chief executive officer, the layoffs were part of an effort to “improve, strengthen, streamline and reposition” the company’s business operations. Odak, 55, a former president and chief executive of…