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Inventories
12 Months Ended
Dec. 27, 2025
Inventories  
Inventories

Note 3    Inventories

Inventories, as of December 27, 2025, and December 28, 2024, were valued as follows:

2024

(amounts in thousands)

  ​ ​ ​

2025

  ​ ​ ​

(As restated)

LIFO

$

196,597

$

198,029

Average cost

 

90,935

 

94,008

Total

$

287,532

$

292,037

Management believes the use of the LIFO method for valuing certain inventories represents the most appropriate matching of costs and revenues in the Company’s circumstances. If all inventories were valued on the average cost method, which approximates current cost, total inventories would have been $90.9 million and $94.0 million higher than as reported on the above methods as of December 27, 2025, and December 28, 2024, respectively.