date:Jun 14, 2012
Mr. Mackey downplayed any significant international growth.
The big learning weve had about international markets is you basically start over again from scratch on your supply chain, he said. If you go open a supermarket like Whole Foods you have 30,000 to 40,000 s.k.u.s (stock-keeping units) and you cant just take the supply chain you have in the United States and transfer it, so you have to almost start over from scratch.
With that in mind, he said Whole Foods will continue to expand internat