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Organization (Details)	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2018 customer store
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
Number of stores (in stores) | store	100,000
Number of customers served (more than) (in customers) | customer	25,000

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Number of customers served by the company's products and/or services

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Represents the number of stores.

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