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On the other hand the post-acquisition management will be very poor as Chinese firms learn the strategic and conceptual ins and outs of negotiating the front end of hardgoods in developed markets.

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On the hardgoods side in-house, yeah, to the degree that we can grow that, there are a lot of smaller vendors there.

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U.S. distributor of industrial, medical and specialty gases, and hardgoods, such as welding equipment and supplies.

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Total same-store sales increased 9% in the quarter, with hardgoods up 11% and gas and rent up 7%.

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In hardgoods, we continue to see sustain momentum in our innovative offerings across the key categories and in our exclusive and proprietary brands, within the categories we are focused on optimizing the good, better, best assortment and we are seeing strengths in the best brands, including Bayer, Advantage and Advantix flea and tick, Martha Stewart, KONG and GNC.

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We reset our cat hardgoods assortment in the first quarter and have seen improved results in that category post-reset.

unknown title 2011

And then the make shift to the hardgoods could still be on the comp hopefully someday?

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The answer to your question is, it is really within the AUR, it's just higher quality goods going into basket within both hardgoods, as well as within consumables.

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It outpaced on a comp perspective the average which was a 5, but hardgoods was still comping positive and still within the category was -- I would call it a trade-up, however, we want to put it under best selling.

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The sales mix for the quarter including consumables at 52.2%, hardgoods at 33.6%, services at 12%, live pets at 1.7% and other revenue at 0.6%.

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