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Food Safety
• Events that give rise to actual or potential food contamination, drug contamination or food-borne illness
or any adverse publicity relating to these types of concern, whether or not valid
Integration of Acquired Businesses
• Our ability to successfully combine our operations with any businesses we have acquired or may
acquire, to achieve expected synergies and to minimize the diversion of management’s attention and
resources
Store Expansion and Remodeling
• Potential delays in the development, construction or start-up of planned projects
• Our ability to locate suitable store or distribution center sites, negotiate acceptable purchase or lease
terms and build or expand facilities in a manner that achieves appropriate returns on our capital
investment
• The adequacy of our capital resources for future acquisitions, the expansion of existing operations or
improvements to facilities
• Our ability to make acquisitions at acceptable rates of return, assimilate acquired operations and
integrate the personnel of the acquired business
Liquidity
• Additional funding requirements to meet anticipated debt payments and capital needs
• The impact of acquisitions on our level of indebtedness, debt ratings, costs and future financial
flexibility
• The impact of the recent turmoil in the financial markets on the availability and cost of credit
Labor Relations
• Potential work disruptions resulting from labor disputes
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 we are 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
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