Max Rakhlenko

can you speak to the competitive environment with the folks on the independents and WDs? How are they dealing with an increasingly challenging operational backdrop

what is the latest thinking around the level of gas prices where there could be some impact on miles driven

do you think that your price spreads are similar to historic levels, especially against the WDs or are you noticing any changes there?

any specific callouts that you can make as far as the areas that you're investing to capitalize on the market share opportunity?

can you speak to the health of the consumer and their willingness to stomach tariffs in the category?

can you just discuss the elasticity that you're seeing in the business as you selectively increase prices? And how we should think about the impact to comps, from transactions versus ticket in 3Q?

you noted that it's taken longer for tariffs to flow through. Just how should we consider the impacts of tariffs over the next several quarters as it does sound like 4Q will see a pickup?

can you just provide more color on how we should think about merch margins for the rest of the year?

on gross margin for 2025, if we were to ignore tariffs, how much further room do you see across supply chain, product margins and occupancy

your regular price business was outcomping your discounted or promoted business. Curious, did that occur this quarter once again?