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Employee Benefit Costs
• Increased operating costs resulting from rising employee benefit costs or pension funding obligations
Regulatory Matters
• The ability to timely obtain permits, comply with government regulations or make capital expenditures
required to maintain compliance with government regulations
• Changes in applicable laws and regulations that impose additional requirements or restrictions on the
operation of our businesses
Self-Insurance
• Variability in actuarial projection regarding workers’ compensation and general and automobile liability
• Potential increase in the number or severity of claims for which the Company is self-insured
• Significant volatility in the amount and timing of payments
Legal and Administrative Proceedings
• Unfavorable outcomes in litigation, governmental or administrative proceedings or other disputes
• Adverse publicity related to such unfavorable outcomes
Information Technology
• Difficulties in developing, maintaining or upgrading information technology systems
Security
• Business disruptions or losses resulting from wartime activities, acts or threats of terror, data theft,
information espionage, or other criminal activity directed at the food and drug industry, the
transportation industry or computer or communications systems
Severe Weather, Natural Disasters and Adverse Climate Changes
• Property damage or business disruption resulting from severe weather conditions and natural disasters
that affect the Company, its customers or suppliers
• Unseasonably adverse climate conditions that impact the availability or cost of certain products in the
grocery supply chain
Transition Support Services
• Our ability to provide transition support services to the purchasers of the non-core supermarket business
of Albertsons in a cost effective and non-disputed manner with minimal diversion of management time
Accounting Matters
• Changes in accounting standards that impact our financial statements
ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
The information called for by Item 7A is found under the heading of “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosure
About Market Risk” under Part II, Item 7 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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