Our pre-tax margin outperformance was primarily driven by merchandise margin and effective expense management, which were both better than we planned.

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Our improved profitability outlook versus our prior guidelines is due to stronger merchandise margin, better expense management, and less incremental freight and wage pressure expected in the second half of the year.

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