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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
   
Thirty-Nine Week Periods
Ended
 
 
 
November 3,
2013
   
October 28,
2012
   
November 3,
2013
   
October 28,
2012
 
 
 
   
   
   
 
Sales
 
$
101,101
   
$
104,134
   
$
327,646
   
$
332,609
 
Customer transactions
   
4,373
     
4,554
     
13,608
     
14,321
 
Average basket
 
$
23.12
   
$
22.86
   
$
24.08
   
$
23.22
 
 
                               
 
                               
Gross Margin
 
$
26,404
     
32,899
   
$
96,595
   
$
105,199
 
Gross margin percentage
   
25.8
%
   
31.1
%
   
29.1
%
   
31.1
%

(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.