We’ve talked about time for our route drivers and additional efficiency effectiveness on the routes. Some of that is recognized immediately. Some of those are soft benefits versus hard benefits, as well. But we are seeing better merchandize controls resulting in our ability to, control garments coming back, making sure we’re charging appropriately for garments and we think that will continue to advance as we go through the remainder of the year and into next year. And then, I think, really as the as the last year, a year and a half has been so focused on deployment. I think, we will kind of go through an optimization phase where, the locations and we learned to sort of optimize the capabilities of the new system. And we think that that’ll happen over the course of the next year or so.
So, there are a lot of learnings with the new system. When anytime you’re coming off a system that you’ve been on for 30 years, you put in the new system. There’s immediately advantages. There’s opportunities to improve certain things and we’re still working through some of those things. But, as you think over the next year or so, there’ll be optimization there and we can start to see some of that improvement. And again, some of the Improvement I talked about merchandize controls, it may be hard to see because we’re still seeing such of a ramp up coming off the depths of the pandemic and we’re seeing the inflationary impact of higher merchandize costs. So, part of our effort has to continue to be working pricing angles where we can to recover some of that margin.
So, a lot of moving pieces, for sure. But we do feel good about where we are in terms of the deployment of the technology and our ability to optimize it going forward.
Andy Wittmann : Okay. I’ll leave it there, guys. Thanks a lot.
Steven Sintros : Thanks, Andy.
Shane O’Connor: Thank you.
Operator: Our next question comes from Tim Mulrooney with William Blair. Please proceed.
Sam Karlov: Hi guys. This is Sam Karlov on for Tim. Thanks for taking my questions.
Steven Sintros : Absolutely.
Sam Karlov: Can you give us an idea of how much of that 10.1% organic growth this quarter was from pricing? And if you could break that down further, how much of that comes from your fuel surcharge?
Shane O’Connor: Yeah, so we’ve never really kind of got into that granular level of detail and we really won’t now. The ones €“ the couple of comments I can make is that pricing activities over the last couple of years has been a meaningful factor in our growth. One thing I will say about the energy surcharge and we did not mention this in our prepared remarks, but as energy peaked last year is when we kind of put in that surcharge. We did take the surcharge a small step down as energy cost, particularly fuel has come down a bit. That was sort of a commitment to our customers that we would look to do that when some of the energy came back and we still are retaining some of it, because as Shane mentioned energy as a whole still remains relatively high.
