”That’s over now, so we don’t expect any more problems,” John Thelan, senior vice president for depots and traffic at Costco, said in an interview at a supply chain meeting in Washington.
Costco Wholesale Corp. said it doesn’t plan to shift any of its U.S. imports to the East Coast as a result of lingering concerns over labor strife that led to lengthy shipping delays at West Coast ports earlier this year, a senior executive said.
“That’s over now, so we don’t expect any more problems,” John Thelan, senior vice president for depots and traffic at Costco, said in an interview at a supply chain meeting in Washington.
Any shift in Costco’s import flows would have a significant impact on shipping. The third-largest U.S. retailer, according to the National Retail Federation, Costco had $113 billion in global sales in its last fiscal year.