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Exhibit 12
 
ALCO Stores, Inc.
Same-Store Sales and Gross Margin
(amounts in thousands except average basket and gross margin percentage)

 
 
Thirteen Week Periods Ended
   
Twenty-Six Week Periods Ended
 
 
 
August 4, 2013
   
July 29, 2012
   
August 4, 2013
   
July 29, 2012
 
 
 
   
   
   
 
Sales
 
$
119,251
   
$
117,626
   
$
229,401
   
$
231,301
 
Customer transactions
   
4,864
     
5,006
     
9,281
     
9,815
 
Average basket
 
$
24.52
   
$
23.50
   
$
24.72
   
$
23.57
 
 
                               
 
                               
Gross Margin
 
$
38,139
     
39,181
   
$
71,073
   
$
73,201
 
Gross margin percentage
   
31.6
%
   
32.8
%
   
30.6
%
   
31.2
%
 
                               
 
                               
 
(1) Same-stores are those stores which were open at the end of the reporting period, had reached their fourteenth month of operation, and include store locations, if any, that had experienced a remodel, an expansion, or relocation.  Same-stores also include the Company’s transactional website.
(2) Same-store results exclude the Company’s two fuel center locations.
(3) Average basket is calculated by dividing sales by customer transactions.
(4) Gross margin percentage is defined as sales less cost of sales, expressed as a percentage of sales.