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<p style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font color="#F20017" size="2"><b>4. Consideration Received from Vendors </b></font></p>
<p style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="2"> We receive consideration for a variety of vendor-sponsored programs, such as volume rebates, markdown allowances, promotions and advertising allowances and for our compliance programs, referred to as "vendor income." Vendor income reduces either our inventory costs or SG&A expenses based on the provisions of the arrangement. Promotional and advertising allowances are intended to offset our costs of promoting and selling merchandise in our stores. Under our compliance programs, vendors are charged for merchandise shipments that do not meet our requirements (violations), such as late or incomplete shipments. These allowances are recorded when violations occur. Substantially all consideration received is recorded as a reduction of cost of sales. </font></p>
<p style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="2"> We establish a receivable for vendor income that is earned but not yet received. Based on provisions of the agreements in place, this receivable is computed by estimating the amount earned when we have completed our performance. We perform detailed analyses to determine the appropriate level of the receivable in the aggregate. The majority of year-end receivables associated with these activities are collected within the following fiscal quarter. </font></p></td></tr></table>
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