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We need to learn how to become a digital enterprise, but we understand that we're a company made up of 2.2 million associates, and that human interaction in the future will matter.

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Customers want to save money and time and have the broadest assortment of items, and we think that by bringing e-commerce and digital capabilities together with the stores, we can do things that a pure e-commerce player can't.

If you fast-forward through the years, there was a period of time when there was too much debate inside the company about the significance of e-commerce, there were leaders who believed it would never be any bigger than the catalog business, there were leaders that believed it would never be profitable.

So, what I think, sometimes a pure tech company can underestimate is the importance of culture, the importance of a purpose.

So growing ecommerce in the marketplace is key to being able to attract more advertisers. What we can do that some other people can't do is we can connect the dot between an ad you may have paid for digitally and a subsequent purchase in a physical store so that you can see the ad actually worked. So it too is an omni business for us.

The unique proposition that we have is that we can link a digital ad back to a physical store purchase down the road.