...Hello. I'm Josh Damon, AVP of Finance and Investor Relations, and I will review our sales results for the four-week retail month of August, which started on Monday, August 5, and ended on Sunday, September 1. This period as compared to the four weeks that began last year on Monday, August 7, and ended on Sunday, September 3. This call will include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual events, results and or performance to differ materially from those indicated by such statements. The risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to those outlined in today's call and sales release, as well as other risks identified from time to time in the company's public statements and reports filed with the SEC. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and the company does not undertake to update them, except as required by law. Comparable...
