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10-K
ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
As of March 2, 2012, we operated 9,961 retail stores located in 39 states as follows:
State Number of Stores State Number of Stores
Alabama ........... 540 Nebraska ........... 80
Arizona ............ 65 Nevada ............ 7
Arkansas ........... 287 New Hampshire ...... 1
California ........... 5 New Jersey .......... 59
Colorado ........... 28 New Mexico ......... 56
Connecticut ......... 2 New York .......... 258
Delaware ........... 30 North Carolina ....... 559
Florida ............. 555 Ohio .............. 527
Georgia ............ 569 Oklahoma .......... 312
Illinois ............. 371 Pennsylvania ......... 432
Indiana ............ 379 South Carolina ....... 400
Iowa .............. 175 South Dakota ........ 11
Kansas ............. 181 Tennessee ........... 525
Kentucky ........... 381 Texas .............. 1,109
Louisiana ........... 409 Utah .............. 8
Maryland ........... 76 Vermont ........... 15
Michigan ........... 288 Virginia ............ 280
Minnesota .......... 16 West Virginia ........ 166
Mississippi .......... 336 Wisconsin ........... 99
Missouri ............ 364
Most of our stores are located in leased premises. Individual store leases vary as to their terms,
rental provisions and expiration dates. Many stores are subject to build-to-suit arrangements with
landlords, which typically carry a primary lease term of 10-15 years with multiple renewal options. We
also have stores subject to shorter-term leases and many of these leases have renewal options. In recent
years, an increasing percentage of our new stores have been subject to build-to-suit arrangements,
including approximately 79% of our new stores in 2011.
As of March 2, 2012, we operated nine distribution centers, as described in the following table:
Year Approximate Square Approximate Number
Location Opened Footage of Stores Served
Scottsville, KY ................. 1959 720,000 948
Ardmore, OK ................. 1994 1,310,000 1,423
South Boston, VA .............. 1997 1,250,000 943
Indianola, MS ................. 1998 820,000 881
Fulton, MO ................... 1999 1,150,000 1,381
Alachua, FL .................. 2000 980,000 949
Zanesville, OH ................ 2001 1,170,000 1,286
Jonesville, SC ................. 2005 1,120,000 1,098
Marion, IN ................... 2006 1,110,000 1,052
In addition, we have a distribution center that we recently constructed in Bessemer, Alabama of
approximately 940,000 square feet that became fully operational on March 11, 2012, and leased space
for a distribution center in Lebec, California of approximately 440,000 square feet that is expected to
be operational in April 2012. We lease the distribution centers located in Oklahoma, Mississippi and
Missouri and own the other six distribution centers in the table above. Approximately 7.25 acres of the
land on which our Kentucky distribution center is located is subject to a ground lease. As of
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