“We believe that we have to talk about and examine this company in minute detail. I don’t know any other large retail company—Kmart, Sears, Penney’s—that discusses their sales at the end of the week in any smaller breakdown than by region. We talk about individual stores. Which means that if we’re talking about the store in Dothan, Alabama, or Harrisburg, Illinois, everybody here is expected to know something about that store—how to measure its performance, whether a 20 percent increase is good or bad, what the payroll is running, who the competitors are, and how we’re doing. We keep the
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