C-Store Loss is Larger Format Gain

How about we give the MillerCoors agreement and the AB InBev acquisition a rest today and focus on channel performance. First, c-stores. Clearly, the economic wrinkle we are in, and I refuse at this point to call it more than a wrinkle (okay, so it's a big wrinkle), is having an adverse effect on our small format customers. The beer category was down 1.4% in c-store volume scans in October (four weeks to November 1) according to Nielsen. That's about