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(1) Fiscal 2003 operating results include a $10 million pre-tax negative impact and the reclassification of certain vendor funding to increase operating expenses by $53 million and decrease cost of goods sold by $43 million, both as a result of the adoption of Emerging Issues Task Force Issue No. 02-16 regarding vendor funding. 

(2) 53 weeks. Comparable store sales, average net sales per domestic auto parts store and average net sales per store square foot for fiscal 2002 and fiscal 1996 have been adjusted to exclude net sales for the 53rd week. 

(3) Fiscal 2001 operating results include pretax restructuring and impairment charges of $156.8 million, or $0.84 per diluted share after tax. 

(4) Comparable store sales for fiscal years 1994 through 2003 are based on increases in sales for domestic auto parts stores open at least one year. All other periods are increases in sales for stores open since the beginning of the preceding fiscal year. 

(5) Net inventory turnover is calculated as cost of sales divided by the average of beginning and ending merchandise inventories less accounts payable. 

