ITEM 2 — PROPERTIES
−Removed: Our pawn stores are typically located in a freestanding building or occupy all or part of a retail strip center with contiguous parking.
+Added: We lease our pawn store locations, which are located throughout our geographic areas of operations.
+Added: See “Part I, Item 1 — Business — Segment and Geographic Information” Our pawn stores are typically located in a freestanding building or occupy all or part of a retail strip center with contiguous parking.
A portion of the store interior is designed for retail operations, with merchandise displayed for sale by category.
Distinctive exterior design and attractive in-store signage provide an appealing atmosphere to customers.
−Removed: We maintain or reimburse our landlords for maintaining property and general liability insurance for each of our stores.
+Added: W e maintain or reimburse our landlords for maintaining property and general liability insurance for each of our stores.
Our stores are open six or seven days a week.
−Removed: We generally lease our United States locations with terms of three to ten years with one or more renewal options.
+Added: Leases for our U.S.
+Added: locations generally have initial terms ranging from three to 10 years and typically allow for renewals in increments of three-to-five years.
+Added: Our primary corporate office is located in Austin, Texas and is leased through March 2029 with escalating rent payments annually and including two five-year extension options at the end of the lease term.
Our locations in Latin America are generally leased on three-to-five year terms.
−Removed: Our existing leases expire on dates ranging between November 2019 and fiscal 2031, with a small number of leases on month-to-month terms.
+Added: Our existing leases expire on dates rangin g between November 2020 and fiscal 2036, with a small number of leases on month-to-month terms.
All leases provide for specified periodic rental payments at market rates.
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On an ongoing basis, we may close or consolidate under-performing store locations.
−Removed: The following table presents the number of stores by location as of September 30, 2019 :
−Removed: United States:
−Removed: Total United States locations
−Removed: Estado de M é xico
−Removed: Ciudad de México
−Removed: Aguascalientes
−Removed: San Luis Potosí
−Removed: Total Mexico locations
−Removed: Total Canada locations
−Removed: Total Company locations
−Removed: In addition to our store locations, we lease corporate office space primarily in Austin, Texas (137,100 square feet, of which 82,700 square feet has been subleased to other tenants), Querétaro, Mexico (9,500 square feet), Guatemala City, Guatemala (7,700 square feet), and Miami, Florida (14,200 square feet).
−Removed: For additional information about store locations during fiscal 2019 , 2018 and 2017 , see “Segment and Geographic Information” included in “Part I, Item 1 — Business.”
+Added: As of September 30, 2020 we had a total of 1,005 stores, 505 of which are located in the U.S., with 43% located in Texas, 19% in Florida and the rest spread across 18 other states.
+Added: We also have 368 locations in Mexico, 87 in Guatemala, 18 in El Salvador, 16 in Honduras and 11 in Peru.
+Added: In addition to our store leases, we lease approximately 137,000 square feet of corporate office space in Austin, Texas, 92,400 square feet of which has been subleased to other tenants.
+Added: We lease other corporate office space in Querétaro, Mexico (9,500 square feet), Guatemala City, Guatemala (7,700 square feet) and Miami, Florida (14,200 square feet, all of which has been subleased to a tenant).
+Added: For additional information about store locations, see “Part I, Item 1 — Business — Segment and Geographic Information.”
ITEM 3 — LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
−Removed: For a discussion of legal proceedings, see Note 14 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in “Part II, Item 8 — Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.”
+Added: See Note 13 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in “Part II, Item 8 — Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.”
ITEM 4 — MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
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