John Mackey
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We had a flood nine months after we opened, which almost put us out of business.
But we learned a lot from the flood.
We learned, A, don't build stores in 100-year flood zones, because the 100-year flood happened the first year we were open.
It's the biggest flood Austin had in 70 years.
And I might add...
the biggest flood that's happened in the hill country since that tragedy that just happened recently in Hunt, Texas.
Wow, yeah.
That's...
That's the biggest flood since the flood of 1981.
Really?
Yeah, really.
But you rebounded.
We rebounded.
We got reopened.
And I learned about stakeholders that I didn't have the word for.
But we should have died.
And our stakeholders saved us.
Our customers came and helped us.
Neighbors and customers helped us clean up the store day after day to get reopened again.
They didn't want us to die.