Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from the line of Scot Ciccarelli with RBC Capital Markets.
Greg Henslee
Good morning, Scott.
Scot Ciccarelli - RBC Capital Markets
Can we talk a little bit about the comp depression of the converted stores? I know, there is major timing issue depending on when stores get converted, etc. Can you just help us reconcile the plus double digit comps we’re seeing after call it, 15, 16 weeks and the negative 3.4% that we saw posted in the quarter?
Greg Henslee
Well, Scot you’re talking about what we referred some of the stores we converted on the year end call, I believe. Several of those Checker stores did really well out of the gate. In that, we explained that we were excluding the first four weeks of the, of those stores converging with us, because the negative trend continued and that was their performance at that point.
What we gave you for the whole comp or at least the Checkers store comp, the decrease of 3.4% includes those stores that were converted in the second quarter and includes the performance of those stores as they continue to try to climb out of the negative trend that they were in.
The 51 stores that we reported on at the end of the first quarter they were converted before the end of the year, as I mentioned in my prepared comments, continue to comp positive. This time of year what we are up against is comparing against CSK numbers, which has some effect, is that they were extremely heavy promoters of all products, both non-automotive and automotive, and we don’t have nearly the promotional activity they’re going on, as compared to them.
And for that reason, the double digit comps that we were saying aren’t happening, but we continue to gain traction on the wholesale side, and overtime, we’ll continue to build the retail business. So we feel pretty good about and how we’re doing with the converted stores, and obviously, they’re not comping double digit, as some of the others did out of the gate in the middle of the winter.
Scot Ciccarelli - RBC Capital Markets
And, Greg, just a clarification, when you guys do the full conversion, we know that the stores have to kind of fall in the hole, as you mentioned, but are those stores comping down? Is it double digits? Is it down 18? Can you just give us an idea of how much of a hole they have to dig themselves out of?
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