It's Wednesday, July 8th. Welcome to Mark Flory. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today

for Molly full one, Mark Wreath, and for Molly Fool rule breakers and supernova Aaron Bush.

Happy Wednesday, gentlemen.

Who! Happy Wednesday. It's not a happy Wednesday for everybody.

It's not a happy Wednesday if you happen to have an airline ticket to fly United.

We will get into that. We will continue our earnings preview. But let's

start with the container store, which reported a loss. A five million dollars right not a good thing the loss for the first quarter and yet

that was still better than expected shares are up something like 8% right now. Yeah the container store it had a 5.2

million dollar loss that's 11 cents per share that's well below the 3.6

million loss it had last year for the same quarter and yet shares are doing pretty good.

The reason for that is, there are a couple different reasons.

I think a lot of the shareholders right now see a lot of positivity for container store's future.

Kib Tindall, the CEO of the container store, and a friend of the fool has come out and

said that 2015 is very much an investment year for the container store. It has a whole bunch of these new

initiatives this year. It's got this at home organization service. It has a customized closet

program, a frequent buyer program, all these different things that are coming down the line and

in the next couple of months could be a big wins for the container store.

I think that's what people are focusing on right now even though the company lost money

this quarter even though sales were down 1% net sales were down 2.1% that's not too shabby at the

end of the day I think people are trying to stay

positive and look towards the future for the container store and frankly I'm

a little positive about the container store right now.

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