"Over last couple quarters as the spread between us and the good guys has increased on a sales line and on a performance line, we will continue to get leverage off our business model, which I am having trouble apologizing for a 15% pre-tax improvement this quarter in this environment.

 That being said, when we get that leverage and our good competitors are flat, and the weaker smaller guys are running -3% to -5%, you can argue we are going to get the best of both worlds by being able to continue to grow and leverage our business operations off our own fundamentals of running a +6% comp. 

 And then being able to buy these guys at a very reasonable multiples, bring t ...

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