Business Segment Data

9 Months Ended

Oct. 28, 2017

We use the following seven merchandise categories, which match our internal management and reporting of merchandise net sales: Food, Consumables, Soft Home, Hard Home, Furniture, Seasonal, and Electronics, Toys, & Accessories. The Food category includes our beverage & grocery, candy & snacks, and specialty foods departments. The Consumables category includes our health, beauty and cosmetics, plastics, paper, chemical, and pet departments. The Soft Home category includes the home décor, frames, fashion bedding, utility bedding, bath, window, decorative textile, home organization and area rugs departments. The Hard Home category includes our small appliances, table top, food preparation, stationery, greeting cards, and home maintenance departments. The Furniture category includes our upholstery, mattress, ready-to-assemble, and case goods departments. The Seasonal category includes our lawn & garden, summer, Christmas, and other holiday departments. The Electronics, Toys, & Accessories category includes the electronics, jewelry, hosiery, toys and infant accessories departments.

We periodically assess, and potentially enact minor adjustments to, our product hierarchy, which can impact the roll-up of our merchandise categories. Our financial reporting process utilizes the most current product hierarchy in reporting net sales by merchandise category for all periods presented. Therefore, there may be minor reclassifications of net sales by merchandise category compared to previously reported amounts.

The following table presents net sales data by merchandise category:



	Third Quarter				Year-to-Date
(In thousands)	2017		2016		2017		2016
Furniture	$	278,017	$	272,639	$	900,395	$	878,972
Consumables	198,236		197,545		586,735		593,859
Food	193,984		199,063		573,387		590,742
Soft Home	188,342		180,389		552,856		534,919
Hard Home	97,676		98,140		285,835		299,348
Seasonal	83,672		77,183		500,233		478,311
Electronics, Toys, & Accessories	70,897		80,539		229,471		245,077
Net sales	$	1,110,824	$	1,105,498	$	3,628,912	$	3,621,228