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COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES:
6 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2012
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7.                                      COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES:

 

The Company is a defendant in various lawsuits and claims arising out of the normal course of business. Like certain other large retail employers, the Company has been faced with allegations of purported class-wide consumer and wage and hour violations. In addition, the Company is a nominal defendant, and nine current and former directors and officers of the Company are named defendants, in a shareholder derivative action in Minnesota state court. The derivative shareholder alleges that the individual defendants breached their fiduciary duties to the Company in connection with their approval of certain executive compensation arrangements and certain related party transactions. A Special Litigation Committee has been formed per the direction of the presiding judge and is investigating these claims. The Company is working with outside counsel and is cooperating with the investigation. Litigation is inherently unpredictable and the outcome of these matters cannot presently be determined. Although the actions are being vigorously defended, the Company could in the future incur judgments or enter into settlements of claims that could have a material adverse effect on its results of operations in any particular period.

 

In fiscal year 2009 the Company sold its Trade Secret concept (Trade Secret). The Company reported Trade Secret as a discontinued operation. The exposure to loss related to the Company’s involvement with Trade Secret is the guarantee of certain operating leases that have future minimum rents of approximately $2.0 million. The Company has determined the exposure to the risk of loss on the guarantee of the operating leases to be immaterial to the financial statements.