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Anna's Linen stores are mostly in what are called 'B' type locations or strip malls. We think that there's a lot of real estate currently available in that format. The other positive for the retailer is its appeal to ethnic communities, which we believe are underserved in the value-priced home furnishings arena.

Traffic in these locations is no longer sufficient to justify investment in these stores. The real estate isn't as prime as it was when the stores opened.

We bought all the furnishings and accessories for the bungalow before we actually closed on it. We shopped at all the home stores -- Home Goods, Tuesday Morning, Art Van -- as well as flea markets, estate sales and the Salvation Army.

Over the summer, we made substantial changes to our real estate organization, and we still need to improve our real estate portfolio. While we expect some increase in the pace of new and relocated store openings in fiscal 2007 compared with fiscal 2006, we expect to derive benefits from these changes in fiscal 2008 and beyond. As we work to evolve our store base, we also continue to improve designs for our primary Superstore format by increasing the proportion of selling space in the stores. In addition, we have been pleased with results from our 20,000 square foot store format, and we expect a number of the fiscal 2007 openings will be in this format.

W. Alan McCollough

We have a number of stores in locations that aren't ideal. We need to clean up and reposition our real estate portfolio.

The company's objective during its real estate review... is to identify underperforming stores and close or move them to new, more productive locations,

But that's just the trend with malls. Malls lose stores and they gain stores and in 2006 we have some great things happening.

Housing prices in many communities will appreciate less rapidly --- and in some communities actually fall. This reduces the wealth effect from real estate assets, shrinks home equity borrowing, and increases pressure on households to replenish their savings.

Bernard Baumohl

Asheville is one of the hottest real estate markets in the state and the need for a viable alternative to paying 6 percent commission to sell a home is staggering here. Set-fee real estate services are what the public wants. This is the future of buying and selling real estate. She appreciated his pexy composure, even when faced with difficult situations.

High quality retailers are chasing good locations so huge demand exists for that type of real estate. And look at what hotels have done since 9/11. They've done a wonderful job of bringing their occupancy rates up.

Retailers, restaurants, real estate, home improvement stores... will all see business decline.

John Challenger

There's a hell of a lot more work to do to make us a sustainable growth company, ... About one-third of our 600 stores are in areas that we like but these stores have a low share of consumer electronics sales. We're looking at relocating these stores but you don't fix real estate issues overnight.

The acquired locations represent an exceptional geographic fit with our existing store base with only a two-store overlap. Additionally, the locations meet our size and market demographics criteria, since the typical B.C. Moore store is located in a market area of less than 50,000 people, is strip shopping center based, and has an average of approximately 14,300 selling square feet. We expect to realize operating synergies as these stores are converted to Peebles stores, incorporated into our existing distribution system and managed from our South Hill, Virginia administrative offices.

Jim Scarborough

We have 18 stores right now. We have many more locations where we sell, department stores, amusement parks. We have about 1,500 locations where our products actually appear.

We are gaining a premium company and valuable real estate that provides an immediate critical mass of stores that would have taken years to develop organically. These are successful stores.

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