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<tr><td valign="top" width="4%" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="_mt" size="2"><b>3.</b></font></td>
<td valign="top" align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="_mt" size="2"><b>CHANGE IN ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLE </b></font></td></tr></table>
<p style="margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="_mt" size="2">During fiscal 2008, the Company implemented a new enterprise resource planning ("ERP") system, including a new inventory system, for its retail operations in Canada. Along with this implementation, the Company changed its method of accounting for Merchandise Inventories for its retail operations in Canada from the lower of cost (first-in, first-out) or market, as determined by the retail inventory method, to the lower of cost or market using a weighted-average cost method. As of the end of fiscal 2008, the implementation of the new inventory system and related conversion to the weighted-average cost method for Canadian retail operations was complete. </font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="_mt" size="2">The new ERP system allows the Company to utilize the weighted-average cost method, which the Company believes will result in greater precision in the costing of inventories and a better matching of cost of sales with revenue generated. The effect of the change on the Merchandise Inventories and Retained Earnings balances was not material. Prior to the inventory system conversion, the Company could not determine the impact of the change to the weighted-average cost method, and therefore, could not retroactively apply the change to periods prior to fiscal 2008. </font></p></div> </div>3.
CHANGE IN ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLE
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-Publisher FASB
-Name Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS)
-Number 154
-Paragraph 2, 17, 18
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-Publisher AICPA
-Name Accounting Principles Board Opinion (APB)
-Number 28
-Paragraph 23, 24
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-Publisher SEC
-Name Regulation S-X (SX)
-Number 210
-Section 01
-Paragraph b
-Subparagraph 6
-Article 10
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