Traders Cooperative

[Joe Stocks]

Thanks, ET. Last May was our previous record high month. So we beat our old high record by 22%. Much of the increase came from our friends at HD. The store closest to us keeps screwing up. Their employees know their problems and send customers our way.

One thing that really helped is that HD and LOW appeared to have quit selling Natural Gas grills. NG grills account for about 5% of all grill sales. You know how HD and LOW are, they are strong on depth of inventory but short on breadth. That 5% of sales is now coming to us boosting our portion of NG grills to over 30% - all additional sales.

I really think HD will have problems as the economy slows. At beat the stock is flat.