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Leases Leases (Policies)
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2019
Leases [Abstract]  
Leases of Lessee Disclosure [Text Block]
The Company leases, among other things, retail space, office space, warehouse facilities, storage space, vehicles, and equipment. Generally, the base lease terms are between 5 and 10 years. Certain lease agreements contain scheduled rent escalation clauses and others include rental payments adjusted periodically depending on an index or rate. Certain retail space lease agreements provide for additional rents based on a percentage of annual sales in excess of stipulated minimums ("percentage rent"). Certain lease agreements require the Company to pay real estate taxes, insurance, common area maintenance, and other costs, collectively referred to as operating costs, in addition to base rent.
Certain lease agreements also contain lease incentives, such as tenant improvement allowances and rent holidays. Most leases include one or more options to renew, with renewal terms that can extend the lease term from one to 10 years or more. The exercise of lease renewal options is generally at the Company's sole discretion. The Company's lease agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants.
The Company determines if an arrangement is or contains a lease at contract inception. The Company recognizes a ROU asset and a lease liability at the lease commencement date. The lease liability is initially measured at the present value of the unpaid lease payments at the lease commencement date. Key estimates and judgments include how the Company determines (1) the discount rate it uses to discount the unpaid lease payments to present value, (2) the lease term and (3) lease payments.
ASC 842 requires a lessee to discount its unpaid lease payments using the interest rate implicit in the lease or, if that rate cannot be readily determined, its incremental borrowing rate. Generally, the Company cannot determine the interest rate implicit in the lease because it does not have access to the lessor's estimated residual value or the amount of the lessor's deferred initial direct costs. Therefore, the Company generally uses its incremental borrowing rate as the discount rate for the lease. The Company's incremental borrowing rate for a lease is the rate of interest it would have to pay on a collateralized basis to borrow an amount equal to the lease payments under similar terms. Because the Company does not generally borrow on a collateralized basis, it uses quoted interest rates obtained from financial institutions as an input to derive an appropriate incremental borrowing rate, adjusted for the amount of the lease payments, the lease term and the effect on that rate of designating specific collateral with a value equal to the unpaid lease payments for that lease.
The Company's lease contracts may include options to extend the lease following the initial term or terminate the lease prior to the end of the initial term. In most instances, at the commencement of the leases, the Company has determined that it is not reasonably certain to exercise either of these options; accordingly, these options are generally not considered in determining the initial lease term. At the renewal of an expiring lease, the Company reassesses options in the contract that it is reasonably certain to exercise in its measurement of lease term.
For lease agreements entered into or reassessed after the adoption of ASC 842, the Company has elected the practical expedient to account for the lease and non-lease components as a single lease component. Therefore, for those leases, the lease payments used to measure the lease liability include all of the fixed consideration in the contract.
Variable lease payments associated with the Company's leases are recognized upon occurrence of the event, activity, or circumstance in the lease agreement on which those payments are assessed. Variable lease payments are presented in the Company's Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations in the same line item as expense arising from fixed lease payments.
Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the balance sheet; the Company recognizes lease expense for these leases on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
The components of lease cost for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 were as follows:
(in thousands)
 
Three Months Ended
 
Nine Months Ended
Operating lease cost
 
$
20,072

 
$
57,592

Variable lease cost
 
12,676

 
38,572

Short term lease cost
 
3,442

 
5,614

 
 
$
36,190

 
$
101,778

Supplemental cash flow information related to leases for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 is as follows:
(in thousands)
 
 
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of operating lease liabilities
 
$
56,843

Operating lease liabilities arising from obtaining ROU assets (1)
 
$
467,075

(1) Includes amount initially capitalized in conjunction with the adoption of ASC 842.
Amounts disclosed for lease liabilities arising from obtaining ROU assets include amounts added to the carrying amount of lease liabilities resulting from lease modifications and reassessments.
Supplemental balance sheet information related to leases as of September 30, 2019 is as follows:
Weighted average remaining lease term
 
6.99 years

Weighted average discount rate
 
3.89
%


As of September 30, 2019, future maturities of lease liabilities are as follows:
(in thousands)
 
 
2019
 
$
20,119

2020
 
76,258

2021
 
68,625

2022
 
63,532

2023
 
58,579

Thereafter
 
212,496

Total lease payments
 
499,609

Less: imputed interest
 
(70,338
)
Total lease liabilities
 
429,271

Less: current obligations
 
(62,756
)
Long-term lease obligations
 
$
366,515


As of September 30, 2019, the Company has additional operating lease commitments that have not yet commenced of $13.6 million. These leases will commence in 2019 and 2020 with lease terms of 1 to 11 years.
Disclosures related to periods prior to adoption of ASC 842
Information on rent expense for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018 was as follows:
(in thousands)
 
Three Months Ended
 
Nine Months Ended
Rent expense included in SG&A expense
 
$
32,058

 
$
96,370

Rent expense included in Cost of sales
 
448

 
1,257

 
 
$
32,506

 
$
97,627


Future minimum payments determined under the previous accounting standards for all lease obligations, including rent escalation clauses and committed leases that had not yet commenced, at December 31, 2018, were as follows:
(in thousands)
 
 
2019
 
$
72,280

2020
 
65,379

2021
 
57,460

2022
 
52,607

2023
 
47,837

Thereafter
 
155,897

 
 
$
451,460