Dirk Locascio: That was specific to independents that comment. Overall, we did see some stronger case growth just more broadly through the quarter, but that comment was geared to independence.
Andrew Wolf: So more like an organic thing. Your typical distribution center not impacted by — Okay. And was it all weather? Or did any of the labor actions also have an effect on January sales?
Dirk Locascio: Yes. As we said, it was a combination of both. That was kind of the net impact in the month of January where we had the labor disruptions for about three weeks of the month overlapping the weather challenges that everyone experienced.
Andrew Wolf: Okay. Because I thought it was just — I wasn’t sure. Okay. So it was both monetary impact and the sales impact. Okay. Dave, on the new cases per mile metric, is that a purely logistical it sort of falls out from what you’re doing in logistics? Or does it — can it sort of help drive sales and marketing, let’s say, to increase customer density and other ways? Or is it purely logistical and the sales and marketing people are going to do their own thing? And not be influenced by this getting the logistics cost down.
Dave Flitman: Yes. The root of it is we’re helping ourselves in terms of efficiency of getting the products to the customer. But importantly, there is a very positive customer impact. Because as we take miles out of our system to get the products from our distribution centers to the customers, we’re more likely to be on time. And show up when the customer has requested it. So that — there’s a double benefit there. So it very much impacts the customer in a positive way. And so we’re excited about continuing that work.
Andrew Wolf: Okay, sounds good. Thank you.
Dave Flitman: Thank you.
Operator: [Operator Instructions] And your next question comes from the line of Fred Wightman with Wolfe Research. Your line is open.
Fred Wightman: Hey guys, good morning. I wanted to come back to the independent case growth numbers. And if we just go back and look at what you guys disclosed for 2Q from last year, you talked about a softer March in April and then some sequential improvement in May and June. So I’m just wondering how we should think about the net impact of some of these headwinds from 1Q. So the weather and the labor that you just touched on rolling off, but then also facing some of those tougher compares on a monthly basis later in the quarter.
Dave Flitman: I think as you pointed out, Fred, that the weather and the labor largely behind us, we have a few of the labor impacted markets that haven’t fully recovered as far as lost customers, but that’s the minority. And those teams are laser focused on getting that back. would say, overall, I’m not going to specifically comment beyond what Dave did where you talked about April volume being pretty similar to March. Our focus as we get to this normalized environment without the weather, without labor, et cetera, is to get back on pace for the strong independent growth that we’ve generated and continue to take share. As you heard Dave said, we accelerated our share gains in and we don’t expect to slow down on that versus continuing to charge ahead.
Fred Wightman: Great. And then on Pronto, I think you guys made a comment that’s a $600 million top line contribution currently. Is there a way to size the potential market for the Pronto penetration? Is that bigger, smaller, sort of in line with the core Pronto offering?
Dave Flitman: It’s early days. We’ll have more to say about that through the course of time. We’re just really getting started with that, Fred. And so we’re excited about it. We think it’s got a large potential. But it’s very early days there.
Fred Wightman: Fair enough. Thanks a lot.
Operator: And your next question comes from the line of Rahul [indiscernible] with JPMorgan. Your line is open.
Unidentified Analyst: Good morning guys. Thanks for taking the question. It’s on Pronto, again. Like you guys did mention the ability to compete against specialty and local, is that mostly because of the delivery window flexibility? And we also saw that many operators succeed here because of the ethnic meats, produce and whatnot. So are you considering adding more SKUs the offering or you can compete with the current assortment.
Dave Flitman: I think we’ve got great product line that falls right on top of the one of the specialty suppliers. What this gives us a role is the ability to actually get that product in a more timely fashion to the customers versus our maybe couple deliveries or standard deliveries per week. We can deliver those products every day now with Pronto whatever frequency the customer needs it. And obviously, delivering it on the smaller trucks gets us into some of the more urban tight areas that are more challenging to take a larger vehicle into it. So I think there’s good upside there and allows us to compete in a way that we haven’t been able to prior the Pronto.
Unidentified Analyst: Understood. That’s helpful. Is there a sense of how the profit per case in this in these deliveries being very different from what you have? Or is it very comparable on gross profit per…
Dirk Locascio: Comparable to the overall independent margins. So in this case, there’s — the customers are willing to pay us life premium because of the flexibility, which mitigates our slightly increased delivery costs. So it’s profitable, it’s attractive and that when you pair this up at our larger truck delivery service, it really allows the right service for the right customer.
Unidentified Analyst: Perfect, thanks guys.
Operator: [Operator Instructions] And with no further questions, I would now like to turn the call back to Mr. Dave Flitman for any additional or closing remarks.
Dave Flitman: Thank you, Krista, and thanks for joining us today. We’re excited about the underlying momentum that the business has and certainly the focus of our 30,000 associates on continuing to drive that momentum. We look forward to seeing many of you at our June 5 Investor Day. Have a great week. Thanks a lot.
Operator: And ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today’s call, and we thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.
