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Pep Boys reported third quarter earnings (for the thirteen weeks ending November 3, 2007.) The company said they lost about $21.7 million (or $1.7 million a week) in the quarter. And over the last 39 weeks (so year-to-date) they lost $14.2 million (or $365,000 a week.) Of course if you factor out about $25.9 million in after-tax charges associated with inventory write-downs, executive severances, legal settlements, and the benefit of company-owned life insurance policy on a former executive, they actually made a little over $4.0 million in the quarter. As you know, I like to focus on store productivity. So below are the per store metrics for the company's service and retail segments: |