Quarterly Information (unaudited)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2016

Quarterly Financial Information Disclosure [Abstract]

(10) Quarterly Information (unaudited)

Following is a summary of the quarterly results of operations for 2016 and 2015. All quarters have 13 weeks, except the fourth quarter of 2016 which has 14 weeks.



	Quarter
	First		Second	Third	Fourth
	(Amounts are in thousands, except per share amounts)
2016
Revenues	$	8,790,561	8,190,537	8,090,649	9,202,362
Costs and expenses	7,963,774		7,531,186	7,555,012	8,472,486
Net earnings	581,889		478,187	421,135	544,477
Basic and diluted earnings per share	0.75		0.62	0.55	0.71
2015
Revenues	$	8,412,745	8,018,031	7,902,144	8,285,839
Costs and expenses	7,638,951		7,349,591	7,344,018	7,607,958
Net earnings	548,918		482,741	412,314	521,075
Basic and diluted earnings per share	0.71		0.62	0.53	0.68