One-third of the widening of the deficit is the oil bill, and aircraft sales explains most of the rest. It's a little superficial.

I think you're seeing some movement on the retail sales and oil, but I don't think it's meaningful. I still think this market will grudgingly go up.

Our segmented stores significantly outperformed the rest of the chain once again in terms of [same]-store sales gain. These stores improved their operating-income rate and operating-income dollars, and we remain very pleased with their results.

The rest of the market, gasoline and heating oil, is carrying crude at the moment, and the data on the crude stock draw also helped,

Then the price of oil went down and the rest of Canada, of course, were wringing their hands in glee saying, 'Oh well, you deserved it.'

I was called by a sales rep, and he garbled his last name. When I called back and asked to speak with 'Steve,' the receptionist wouldn't connect me. Here he was, trying to sell me something — I wasn't even calling to recruit him.