Leases

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2021

NOTE H – Leases

We have operating leases for retail stores, offices, warehouses, and certain equipment. Our leases have remaining lease terms of 1 year to 14 years, some of which include options to extend the leases for up to 20 years. We determine if an arrangement is or contains a lease at lease inception. Our leases do not have any residual value guarantees or any restrictions or covenants imposed by lessors. We have lease agreements for real estate with lease and non-lease components, which are accounted for separately.

Certain of our lease agreements for retail stores include variable lease payments, generally based on sales volume. The variable portion of payments are not included in the initial measurement of the right-of-use asset or lease liability due to uncertainty of the payment amount and are recorded as lease expense in the period incurred. Certain of our equipment lease agreements include variable lease costs, generally based on usage of the underlying asset (mileage, fuel, etc.). The variable portion of payments are not included in the initial measurement of the right-of-use asset or lease liability due to uncertainty of the payment amount and are recorded in the period incurred.

As of March 31, 2021, we had entered into one lease for an additional retail location which had not yet commenced and was under construction.

Lease expense is charged to selling, general and administrative expenses. Components of lease expense were as follows (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020
Operating lease cost	$	11,806	$	10,431
Variable lease cost		1,508		1,615
Total lease expense	$	13,314	$	12,046

Supplemental cash flow information related to leases is as follows (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
Operating cash flows from operating leases	$	13,093	$	9,996
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations:
Operating leases	$	4,125	$	12,043