Where are the discs in the MacBook Pro box?

I just purchased a new MacBook Pro pre-loaded with Lion this weekend at Best Buy. The box contains the MacBook, a couple of power cords thingys, a brief instructional manual and other printed ephemera, and that's it. Doesn't this MacBook come with the OS discs? What do I do should I need to reboot from the OS discs? Can anyone offer any info or adv

There are no discs with computers that come with Lion pre-installed. See OS X Lion- About Lion Recovery. Should you need to boot from the Recovery HD:
To boot from the Recovery HD restart the computer. After the chime hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
If you don't have a Recovery HD then see OS X Lion: About Lion Recovery Disk Assistant

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