Earnings, is that all BJ's cares about?

BJs Wholesale Club (NYSE:BJ) will release the first quarter earnings for 2008 on Wednesday, May 21. A conference call will be held on that day. The time of the call is still to be determined. A live webcast of the presentation will be available at bjsinvestor.com/medialist.cfm.

BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. (BJ's) is a warehouse club operator in the eastern United States. As of February 2, 2008, the Company operated 177 warehouse clubs in 16 states, 100 of which operated gasoline stations.

BJ's revenues are derived from the sale of a range of food and general merchandise items, the sale of gasoline and from membership fees. During the fiscal year ended February 2, 2008 (fiscal 2007), food accounted for approximately 61% of BJ’s total food and general merchandise sales. The remaining 39% consisted of a variety of general merchandise items.