Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Rick Weinhart - BMO Capital Markets.
Rick Weinhart - BMO Capital Markets
With the retail business, can you tell me what TVs did? You gave the 2.2% as the impact on the comps, but what were TVs’ overall growth rate there?
Stuart A. Rose
What I do is, I can give it to you basically by category, if you want it at the direction and then probably it’s the best thing to do. Projection TVs were down 54.5% this year, quarter-over-quarter. Plasma was up about 15%. Small screen LCDs were down 60% by 13? to 15?, 16? to 20? down 54%, 28? to 32? up 50%, 33? to 42? up 9%, 43? to 47? up 64%, and most important for us 48-inch and larger were up 128%. Analog TVs went to virtually zero from a couple million dollars last year.
Douglas Bruggeman
Rick, it was up about 4% just the category itself in the comps.
Rick Weinhart - BMO Capital Markets
And you are interesting though, when you broke it out this way, the declines that you are seeing in LCD and the small screens, was that supply related or is that something else?
Stuart A. Rose
It’s mostly supply related. There’s the LCD, the lower-end stuff is extremely promotional and there is business out there, but they have a specialists selling televisions like we do. It’s very hard to compete in those lower end models. Again some mass-market people, the Costcos and people of that nature where once you get to a bigger television, more expensive television, a TV salesman, a specialist, can show how good he is.
And again, there’s not a huge amount. The volume just to give you an idea, was in the 13 to 15-inch category, did 39,000 last year, this year, 135.
Rick Weinhart - BMO Capital Markets
And you mentioned that 2% comps in May ex air, how is the air conditioning doing? I assume not too well given the.
Stuart A. Rose
We had a wet cold May, but it’s hot now. I think overall, if I put in air, comps were virtually flat. It wasn’t huge. It was a couple of percent. Comp store sales were virtually flat.
Rick Weinhart - BMO Capital Markets
And just the discussion this morning in the press release regarding looking at the strategic options now for the retail business, what types of, you’ve always been pretty clear that you would only be in the retail business as long as it’s profitable and I think you’ve always looked at these businesses as trying to get the best value for them. So, what is changing there? What are we doing exactly?
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