Rebekah Manis | Director, IR |
Rodney McMullen | Chairman & CEO |
Gary Millerchip | CFO |
Rupesh Parikh | Oppenheimer |
John Heinbockel | Guggenheim Securities |
Edward Kelly | Wells Fargo |
Michael Lasser | UBS |
Judah Frommer | Credit Suisse |
Robbie Ohmes | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Karen Short | Barclays |
Good morning and welcome to the Kroger Company Second Quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to turn the conference over to Rebekah Manis, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Thank you, Gary. Good morning and thank you for joining us.