Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator Instructions). Our first question comes from Mark Churchill of
Piper Jaffray. Please proceed with your question.
Mark Churchill - Piper Jaffray & Co.
Yes, you guys said in the introduction that you will see or you are evaluating whether a softening economy is having any impact on your business. Can you elaborate on your current findings on that?
Bill Brick
Grey area. The first four months of the year are -- if we would have had Mark, the same weather patterns in each month as last year, I think it would have been easier to pin point it. January was not as good as last year in our results indicated that. February we seemed to get what we thought was more normal a little bit up and our sales reflected it, and March was very disappointing both from temperatures and rainfall, and April seem to be stagnant. So, you wonder, and you try and come up with a calculated and analytical answer that can give you a precise number. We can't do that at this point. I think it may become more apparent as we move forward but at this point in time, we're just trying to analyze it. We're not seeing anything from any customer losses as far as our customers, and we're seeing a variance of sales once again reflected some ways by the temperature and the weather with respect to our products across the country.
Mark Churchill - Piper Jaffray & Co.
Okay. On the last call you had discussed increasing competition, and I didn't see a whole lot of discussion about that here. Can you give us an idea how that is looking today versus a couple of months ago?
Bill Brick
It's really has not changed. I think, the point we wanted to make a couple of months ago was that we are seeing more of the technology being used for selling ice on a free-standing basis, which we talked about, other parking lots through the vending operation. We continue to see, some self-bagging at some of the small convenience stores. Nothing has really changed there. I just think that our point then was as that we felt it was coming into the industry. We were continuing to review it to see what role we would potentially play in that area, or what opportunities may or may not be there. We continue to assess it, but there's nothing that has been dramatically changed since then.
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