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Whole Foods Market Earnings Call, Fourth Quarter 2008
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Last Update: 1:20 AM ET November 12 2008
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The leading natural and organic foods supermarket generated full year consolidated sales of $8 billion compared with $6.6 billion for the full year 2007. The full year net income dipped to $114.5 million or 82 cents per share versus 2007 net income of $182.7 million or $1.29 per share. The company also announced an agreement for $425 million of additional equity from sale of Series A Preferred Stock to Green Equity Investors V, L.P., an affiliate of Leonard Green & Partners, L.P.

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Jim Sud: We also have great flexibility to the timing on when we open these stores. We’ll open these stores in a manner that is prudent and consistent with our growth and what is going on in the economy.

Ed Aaron (RBC Capital): Can you talk about the experience that you have with the $5 coupon promotion that you ran in the quarter?

Walter Robb: Whole Foods existed to see that happen, but the coupon was an experiment in which we want to assess the traffics. It was a onetime thing that we did; we’ve looked at potentially doing it another time in the future which will complete the business case, but it definitely drove traffic.
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