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๐Ÿ“„ Earnings Call Transcript ๋ฒˆ์—ญ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ

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Citi Trends, Inc. (CTRN) Q2 2025 Earnings Conference Call August 26, 2025 9:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Heather Plutino - CFO, Principal Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer & Executive VP
Kenneth Duane Seipel - CEO & Chairman of the Board

Conference Call Participants

Jeremy Scott Hamblin - Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, Research Division
Michael Allen Baker - D.A. Davidson & Co., Research Division
Nitza McKee - ICR Inc. Operator

Greetings, and welcome to the Citi Trends Second Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Nitza McKee, Senior Associate at ICR.
Citi Trends, Inc. (CTRN) 2025๋…„ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ 2025๋…„ 8์›” 26์ผ ๋™๋ถ€์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์˜ค์ „ 9์‹œ

ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ฐธ์„์ž

Heather Plutino - ์ตœ๊ณ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ฑ…์ž„์ž(CFO), ์žฌ๋ฌด๋‹ด๋‹น ์ž„์›, ํšŒ๊ณ„๋‹ด๋‹น ์ž„์› ๊ฒธ ์ „๋ฌด์ด์‚ฌ
Kenneth Duane Seipel - ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž(CEO) ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ ์˜์žฅ

์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ ์ฐธ์„ ์• ๋„๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ

Jeremy Scott Hamblin - Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
Michael Allen Baker - D.A. Davidson & Co., ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
Nitza McKee - ICR Inc. ์šด์˜์ž

์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ. Citi Trends 2025๋…„ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์˜ค์‹  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [์šด์˜์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด์‚ฌํ•ญ]. ๋ณธ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค๋Š” ๋…น์Œ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์•Œ๋ ค๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์‚ฌํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋งก์œผ์‹ค ICR์˜ ์„ ์ž„ ์–ด์†Œ์‹œ์—์ดํŠธ Nitza McKee๋ฅผ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Thank you. Please go ahead. Nitza McKee

Thank you, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us on Citi Trends' Second Quarter 2025 Earnings Call. On our call today is Chief Executive Officer, Ken Seipel; and Chief Financial Officer, Heather Plutino. Our earnings release was sent out this morning at 6:45 a.m. Eastern Time. If you have not received a copy of the release, it's available on the company's website under the Investor Relations section at www.cititrends.com. You should be aware that prepared remarks today made during this call may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์‹œ์ฃ . ๋‹ˆ์งœ ๋งฅํ‚ค

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„ ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ. Citi Trends์˜ 2025๋…„ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—๋Š” Ken Seipel ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž์™€ Heather Plutino ์ตœ๊ณ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ฑ…์ž„์ž๊ฐ€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋Š” ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์นจ ๋™๋ถ€ ํ‘œ์ค€์‹œ ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์˜ค์ „ 6์‹œ 45๋ถ„์— ๋ฐœ์†ก๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜์‹  ๋ถ„๋“ค์€ www.cititrends.com์˜ ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„(Investor Relations) ์„น์…˜์—์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ ์ค€๋น„๋œ ๋ฐœ์–ธ ๋‚ด์šฉ์—๋Š” 1995๋…„ ์ฆ๊ถŒ์†Œ์†ก๊ฐœํ˜๋ฒ•(Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995)์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ˆ์ธก์ง„์ˆ (forward-looking statements)์ด ํฌํ•จ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์œ ๋…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Management may make additional forward-looking statements in response to your questions. These statements do not guarantee future performance. Therefore, you should not place undue reliance on these statements. We refer you to the company's most recent report on Form 10-K and other subsequent filings within the Securities and Exchange Commission for a more detailed discussion of the factors that can cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward- looking statements. I will now turn the call over to our Chief Executive Officer, Ken Seipel. Ken? Kenneth Duane Seipel

Thank you.
๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ˆ์ธก ์ง„์ˆ ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ง„์ˆ ๋“ค์€ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ง„์ˆ ๋“ค์— ๊ณผ๋„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์˜์กดํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ˆ์ธก ์ง„์ˆ ์—์„œ ์„ค๋ช…๋œ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์š”์ธ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ƒ์„ธํ•œ ๋…ผ์˜๋Š” ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์ตœ๊ทผ Form 10-K ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ ๋ฐ ์ฆ๊ถŒ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์œ„์›ํšŒ์— ์ œ์ถœ๋œ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ํ›„์† ์„œ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ฐธ์กฐํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž Ken Seipel์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ์–ธ๊ถŒ์„ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Ken?

Kenneth Duane Seipel

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Well, good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today on our second quarter earnings call. I'm pleased to report another quarter of consistent performance, demonstrating disciplined execution and progress across every area of our business. Our transformation remains guided by a clear 3-phase framework designed to deliver sustainable, profitable growth. First, Phase 1 is repair, that's restoring our fundamentals and establishing a strong foundation. Phase 2 is our execute phase, embedding consistent best practices and driving reliable performance.์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„. ์˜ค๋Š˜ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ ํ•œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ผ๊ด€๋œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๊ธฐ์˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์˜์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ทœ์œจ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹คํ–‰๊ณผ ์ง„์ „์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ „ํ™˜์€ ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ์žˆ๋Š” ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์„ค๊ณ„๋œ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ 3๋‹จ๊ณ„ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„์›Œํฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ์งธ, 1๋‹จ๊ณ„๋Š” ๋ณต๊ตฌ(repair) ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋กœ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์„ ํšŒ๋ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2๋‹จ๊ณ„๋Š” ์‹คํ–‰(execute) ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋กœ, ์ผ๊ด€๋œ ๋ชจ๋ฒ” ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋ฅผ ์ •์ฐฉ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
And we are going to be entering in the future Phase 3, which is optimize, leveraging new systems and expansion capabilities to accelerate our growth. These 3 phases create the foundation for a disciplined approach to capture the near-term and long-term opportunity of growth for Citi Trends. Now turning to our results. In the second quarter, we generated strong comparable sales growth of 9.2%, marking our fourth consecutive quarter of mid-to-high single-digit comp sales growth. Year-to-date, we've delivered year-over-year comp growth of 9.6%, and I'm happy to report that sales momentum consistent with our first half top line trends has continued into the back-to-school season.๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ–ฅํ›„ 3๋‹จ๊ณ„์ธ ์ตœ์ ํ™” ๋‹จ๊ณ„์— ์ง„์ž…ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋‹จ๊ณ„์—์„œ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ๊ณผ ํ™•์žฅ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด 3๋‹จ๊ณ„๋Š” Citi Trends์˜ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ํฌ์ฐฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ฒด๊ณ„์ ์ธ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ๋งˆ๋ จํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์‹ค์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 9.2%์˜ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ค‘์ƒ์œ„ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•œ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์—ฐ์† ์‹ค์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ์ดˆ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์€ 9.6%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ ์ถ”์„ธ์™€ ์ผ๊ด€๋œ ํŒ๋งค ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์ด ์‹ ํ•™๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ฆŒ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ง€์†๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ๊ธฐ์˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This August will be representing 13 consecutive months of comparable store sales growth. Gross margin dollars have increased meaningfully, achieving our highest rate performance in the last several years. As our buying teams have fine-tuned assortments for our core customers, we've experienced faster sell-throughs of regular priced product, reduced markdowns and improved operational controls for shrinkage and transportation rates. Our SG&A was slightly deleveraged in the quarter due to the inclusion of incentive compensation for the consistent financial performance of our employees. It's been quite a few years since the company achieved its bonus targets.์˜ฌํ•ด 8์›”์ด๋ฉด 13๊ฐœ์›” ์—ฐ์† ๋™์ผ์ ํฌ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต ๊ธˆ์•ก์ด ์˜๋ฏธ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋ช‡ ๋…„ ์ค‘ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตฌ๋งคํŒ€์ด ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ธต์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰์„ ์ •๊ตํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ์ •์ƒ๊ฐ€ ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ํŒ๋งค ์†๋„๊ฐ€ ๋นจ๋ผ์ง€๊ณ , ํ• ์ธ ํŒ๋งค๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์žฌ๊ณ  ์†์‹ค๊ณผ ์šด์†ก๋น„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šด์˜ ํ†ต์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ํŒ๋งค๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„๋Š” ์ง์›๋“ค์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์„ฑ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๊ธ‰ ์ง€๊ธ‰์ด ํฌํ•จ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ์†Œํญ ๋””๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€(๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋น„์œจ ์ฆ๊ฐ€)๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๋„ˆ์Šค ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ช‡ ๋…„ ๋งŒ์˜ ์ผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
So I'm excited to add performance-based bonus back to our financial profile. Excluding the new performance bonus incentive compensation, our SG&A leveraged in the quarter and leveraged year-to-date, consistent with our guidance. Our top line continues to grow, to be broad-based and healthy. Transaction growth has consistently accounted for the majority of our sales gain, which validates the strategic advantage of our neighborhood locations. And additionally, we saw growth in units per transaction while maintaining stable average unit retails.์ด์ œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๋ณด๋„ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ์žฌ๋ฌด ํ”„๋กœํ•„์— ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ณด๋„ˆ์Šค ์ธ์„ผํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ๋ณด์ƒ์„ ์ œ์™ธํ•˜๋ฉด, ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ํŒ๋งค๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„๋Š” ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ค‘ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ  ์—ฐ์ดˆ ๋Œ€๋น„๋กœ๋„ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์–ด ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค์™€ ์ผ์น˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ๋งค์ถœ ์ƒ์œ„์„ ์€ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฑด์ „ํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ๊ฑด์ˆ˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งค์ถœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์˜ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•ด ์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ๊ทผ๋ฆฐ ์ž…์ง€ ์ „๋žต์  ์šฐ์œ„๋ฅผ ์ž…์ฆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ํ‰๊ท  ๋‹จ์œ„ ์†Œ๋งค๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋‹น ํŒ๋งค ์ˆ˜๋Ÿ‰๋„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Also, our performance was consistent across climate zones, regions and store volume deciles, which underscores the breadth of improvement across the business. Our turnaround is rooted in a clear and unwavering focus on the needs of our African-American

customer, who is at the center of everything we do. Neighborhood-based locations remain a differentiated advantage with proximity and word of mouth serving as powerful traffic drivers. We continue to strengthen this connection by elevating the cultural relevance of our assortments, refreshing the shopping experience to better align with our brand voice and investing in customer engagement.
๋˜ํ•œ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‹ค์ ์€ ๊ธฐํ›„๋Œ€, ์ง€์—ญ, ๋งค์žฅ ๊ทœ๋ชจ 10๋ถ„์œ„์ˆ˜ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ผ๊ด€๋˜๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์‚ฌ์—… ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ๊ฐœ์„ ์˜ ํญ๋„“์Œ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํ„ด์–ด๋ผ์šด๋“œ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์ผ์˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด๊ณ„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์˜ ๋‹ˆ์ฆˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ”๋“ค๋ฆผ ์—†๋Š” ์ง‘์ค‘์— ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ง€์—ญ์‚ฌํšŒ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์ž…์ง€๋Š” ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”๋œ ๊ฐ•์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทผ์ ‘์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ž…์†Œ๋ฌธ์ด ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํŠธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ ์œ ์ธ ์š”์†Œ๋กœ ์ž‘์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ƒํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰์˜ ๋ฌธํ™”์  ๊ด€๋ จ์„ฑ์„ ๋†’์ด๊ณ , ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๋ณด์ด์Šค์— ๋” ์ž˜ ๋ถ€ํ•ฉํ•˜๋„๋ก ์‡ผํ•‘ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ฐธ์—ฌ์— ํˆฌ์žํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Work is underway to design and implement a CRM and loyalty platform that will deepen interaction with our most frequent shoppers, thus enhancing long-term customer value. Our product performance in Q2 was broad-based and balanced across apparel, nonapparel, family basics, home and lifestyle and children's categories. In all categories, customers responded well to elevated fashions and expansion of brand name apparel. Women's Plus and Big Men's apparel had strong performance and both remain early-stage businesses with significant runway ahead. Men's delivered improved results as trend-relevant assortments and improved in-stocks on basics resonated with customers.๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ(CRM) ๋ฐ ๋กœ์—ดํ‹ฐ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ์„ค๊ณ„์™€ ๊ตฌ์ถ• ์ž‘์—…์ด ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ตœ๋‹ค ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉ์„ ์‹ฌํ™”ํ•˜์—ฌ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ œํ’ˆ ์‹ค์ ์€ ์˜๋ฅ˜, ๋น„์˜๋ฅ˜, ํŒจ๋ฐ€๋ฆฌ ๋ฒ ์ด์ง, ํ™ˆ ์•ค ๋ผ์ดํ”„์Šคํƒ€์ผ, ์•„๋™ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ท ํ˜•์žกํžŒ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์€ ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ํ™”๋œ ํŒจ์…˜๊ณผ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์˜๋ฅ˜ ํ™•๋Œ€์— ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ์„ฑ ํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ์Šค ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ์™€ ๋น… ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ ๋‚จ์„ฑ ์˜๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‘ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋‹จ๊ณ„ ์‚ฌ์—…์œผ๋กœ ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์—ฌ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚จ์„ฑ ์˜๋ฅ˜๋Š” ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ์— ๋ถ€ํ•ฉํ•˜๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ฒ ์ด์ง ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ์žฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐœ์„ ์ด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ํ˜ธ์‘์„ ์–ป์œผ๋ฉด์„œ ์‹ค์ ์ด ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
In children's, a cornerstone of our business, has continued strong year-over-year performance. And our customers continue to respond to extreme value deals on well-known brands at exceptional prices as we continue to build capabilities to expand this important segment of our strategy. Looking ahead in product, we've made good progress in improving our 3-tiered good, better and best product assortments, but we are still in early stages. The majority of our initial initiatives, which include better in-stocks on basic product, accelerated growth of Women's Plus and Big Men's sizes, expansion of the consumables category and the addition of extreme value products have had good early success.์•„๋™๋ณต ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์€ ์ €ํฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์‹ค์ ์„ ์ง€์†ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์€ ์œ ๋ช… ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ํŒŒ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์— ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์ต์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ ๋ฐธ๋ฅ˜(๊ทนํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜) ์ƒํ’ˆ์— ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ํ˜ธ์‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ „๋žต์˜ ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ œํ’ˆ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ์˜ ์ „๋ง์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 3๋‹จ๊ณ„ ์ƒํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰์ธ good(๊ธฐ๋ณธํ˜•), better(๊ฐœ์„ ํ˜•), best(์ตœ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ํ˜•) ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ์žˆ์–ด ์ข‹์€ ์ง„์ „์„ ์ด๋ฃจ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์•„์ง ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ์žฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐœ์„ , ์—ฌ์„ฑ ํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ์Šค ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ์™€ ๋น… ๋งจ์ฆˆ ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ์˜ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋œ ์„ฑ์žฅ, ์†Œ๋ชจํ’ˆ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ํ™•๋Œ€, ์ต์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ ๋ฐธ๋ฅ˜ ์ œํ’ˆ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๋“ฑ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์˜ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์—์„œ ์ข‹์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋‘์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We see significant growth runway ahead, though, as we continue to fulfill consumer demand in all of these categories. In addition, our merchants have identified several growth opportunities through assortment refinement as we learn more about our customers. For example, our men's team is working to develop an expanded and more refined assortment for young men. We believe we are underserving this trendy value-oriented consumer. Young men's will complement the already strong men's classic and core business. In our women's apparel, customers are responding to the increased offering of trendy missy size product.ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์ˆ˜์š”๋ฅผ ์ถฉ์กฑ์‹œ์ผœ ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์—ฌ๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ €๋“ค์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ƒํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ตดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, ๋‚จ์„ฑ๋ณต ํŒ€์€ ์ Š์€ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ™•๋Œ€๋˜๊ณ  ๋”์šฑ ์„ธ๋ถ„ํ™”๋œ ์ƒํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํŠธ๋ Œ๋””ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์„ฑ๋น„๋ฅผ ์ค‘์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ์ด ์†Œ๋น„์ž์ธต์„ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ๊ณต๋žตํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ ๋งจ์ฆˆ(young men's) ๋ผ์ธ์€ ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‚จ์„ฑ ํด๋ž˜์‹ ๋ฐ ์ฝ”์–ด ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๋ณด์™„ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋ณต์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ํŠธ๋ Œ๋””ํ•œ ๋ฏธ์‹œ ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ํ™•๋Œ€๋œ ์ƒํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์— ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Missy product broadens the availability of style and size for women and complements the strong offering of junior product. Customer reaction to our best trendy product has been strong, giving us confidence there's more demand to address. This has led us to add a trend director to identify emerging trends and guide curation of product assortment. We were fortunate to find an accomplished trend director with a successful track record of trend curation at well-known brands in the industry. I believe the elevation of trend in our men's and women's assortments will be additive and supportive to our merchant teams and resonate strongly with our customers.Missy ์ œํ’ˆ์€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ๊ณผ ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ์˜ ์„ ํƒํญ์„ ๋„“ํ˜€์ฃผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฃผ๋‹ˆ์–ด ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋ผ์ธ์—…์„ ๋ณด์™„ํ•ด์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋”” ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ฐ˜์‘์ด ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•˜์—ฌ, ์ถฉ์กฑ์‹œ์ผœ์•ผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ๋” ๋งŽ๋‹ค๋Š” ํ™•์‹ ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ์‹ ํฅ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๋ฅผ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰์˜ ํ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ์ด๋Œ์–ด๊ฐˆ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ ๋””๋ ‰ํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์˜์ž…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—…๊ณ„ ์œ ๋ช… ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์—์„œ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ ํ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•œ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰ ์žˆ๋Š” ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ ๋””๋ ‰ํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์˜์ž…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด ๋‹คํ–‰์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ๋‚จ์„ฑ ๋ฐ ์—ฌ์„ฑ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰์—์„œ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‹น์‚ฌ ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง• ํŒ€์— ๋ถ€๊ฐ€๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง€์›์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์–ดํ•„ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
From an operational standpoint, we made continued progress on our initiatives in the second quarter. Foundational improvements in preseason product planning, in-season allocation execution and supply chain speed have enabled us to support a 9.2% comp growth while operating with 5.7% less in-store inventory than last year. Working capital optimization provides liquidity and flexibility to react quickly to emerging trends and deal opportunities while also enhancing gross margin. Our stores continue to make strides in improving neat, clean and organized shopping experiences for customers.์šด์˜ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ฃผ์š” ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋“ค์—์„œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์ง„์ „์„ ์ด๋ฃจ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์ฆŒ ์ „ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ธฐํš, ์‹œ์ฆŒ ์ค‘ ์žฌ๊ณ  ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ ์‹คํ–‰, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ์†๋„ ๊ฐœ์„ ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 5.7% ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ ๋งค์žฅ ์žฌ๊ณ ๋กœ 9.2%์˜ ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ง€์›ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šด์ „์ž๋ณธ ์ตœ์ ํ™”๋Š” ์‹ ํฅ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ์™€ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ์— ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€์‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์œ ๋™์„ฑ๊ณผ ์œ ์—ฐ์„ฑ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ๋„ ๊ฐœ์„ ์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊น”๋”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฒญ๊ฒฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ฒด๊ณ„์ ์ธ ์‡ผํ•‘ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ง„์ „์„ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We've implemented improved in-store navigation signing and updated presentation standards to make shopping experience easier. Our supply chain remains stable with progress against productivity and steam goals. And looking ahead, we're in the process of implementing improved work processes throughout the DCs and implementing special handling areas to assist us in overall processing speed and capacity to grow extreme value product and family footwear. I look forward to sharing more on this initiative on future calls.๋งค์žฅ ๋‚ด ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ๋„ค๋น„๊ฒŒ์ด์…˜ ์•ˆ๋‚ดํŒ์„ ์„ค์น˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง„์—ด ๊ธฐ์ค€์„ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•˜์—ฌ ์‡ผํ•‘ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋”์šฑ ํŽธ๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง์€ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ์ง€๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ŠคํŒ€(steam) ๋ชฉํ‘œ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ง„์ „์„ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ์ž‘์—… ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ต์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ ๋ฐธ๋ฅ˜(extreme value) ์ œํ’ˆ๊ณผ ํŒจ๋ฐ€๋ฆฌ ํ’‹์›จ์–ด์˜ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ์†๋„์™€ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ํŠน์ˆ˜ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ๊ตฌ์—ญ์„ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ ์ด ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๊ณต์œ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Looking ahead in operations, test results for our new AI-based allocation system have been well above expectations, allowing us to more accurately allocate product based on individual store demand, which has in turn increased sales and improved inventory turns. We are in the process of implementing AI-based allocations to all categories with expected completion in mid-September in time for to impact holiday. Concurrently, we're in the early stages of developing a complementary AI-based merchandise planning system that we hope to have ready for early 2026. Here again, we'll keep you updated on our progress.์šด์˜ ์ „๋ง์„ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์˜ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์น˜๋ฅผ ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ๋งค์žฅ ์ˆ˜์š”์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„์„ ๋”์šฑ ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๋งค์ถœ์ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žฌ๊ณ  ํšŒ์ „์œจ์ด ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ชจ๋“  ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์— AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์— ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 9์›” ์ค‘์ˆœ ์™„๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด ์—ฐ๋ง ํ™€๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์ด ์‹œ์ฆŒ์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์‹œ์—, ๋ณด์™„์ ์ธ AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์ƒํ’ˆ ๊ธฐํš ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์— ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 2026๋…„ ์ดˆ ์™„์„ฑ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณต์œ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
As we all know, retail is detail and execution without measurement is just simply guesswork, which is why our use of KPIs and dashboards for all key functions is critical. The visibility provided, helps our team stay on track, identifying where we're hitting the plans and where we need more attention. The combination of simple, repeatable processes supported by operating procedures plus KPIs makes us confident that we'll be able to drive continual operational improvement for years to come. And a few comments on tariffs. As evidenced in our results, we are successfully navigating the ever-changing tariff landscape.์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋“ฏ์ด, ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ์€ ๋””ํ…Œ์ผ์ด๋ฉฐ ์ธก์ • ์—†๋Š” ์‹คํ–‰์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์ถ”์ธก์— ๋ถˆ๊ณผํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋ชจ๋“  ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ KPI์™€ ๋Œ€์‹œ๋ณด๋“œ ํ™œ์šฉ์ด ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ด์œ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ œ๊ณต๋˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์‹œ์„ฑ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํŒ€์ด ๊ณ„ํš๋Œ€๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„๊ณผ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์„ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. KPI๋กœ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฐ˜๋ณต ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค์™€ ์šด์˜ ์ ˆ์ฐจ์˜ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ์€ ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์šด์˜ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ํ™•์‹ ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ด€์„ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‹ค์ ์—์„œ ์ž…์ฆ๋˜๋“ฏ์ด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ด€์„ธ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ—ค์ณ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
In fact, we've actually found the off-price products deal-making environment to be very robust and advantageous. My direction to the team is be aggressive, remain flexible with ample liquidity. Our strategy is working. We intend to play our game and win at our game. Now I'll turn the call over to Heather to discuss the financial performance. Heather? Heather Plutino

Thank you, Ken, and good morning, everyone. I'm excited to have the opportunity to walk you through the details of our second quarter and first half results as well as our improved outlook for the year. Before I do that, let me echo some themes from Ken's comments.
์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์˜คํ”„ํ”„๋ผ์ด์Šค ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ €์˜ ์ง€์‹œ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋˜, ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ์œ ๋™์„ฑ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์œ ์—ฐ์„ฑ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ „๋žต์€ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœํœ˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ฒŒ์ž„์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ฒŒ์ž„์—์„œ ์Šน๋ฆฌํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์„ฑ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋…ผ์˜ํ•  Heather์—๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Heather?

Heather Plutino

Ken ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„ ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ. 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์˜ ์„ธ๋ถ€ ์‚ฌํ•ญ๊ณผ ์˜ฌํ•ด ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ์ „๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜ ์„ค๋ช…๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์ „์—, Ken์˜ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜จ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ฃผ์ œ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The transformation of Citi Trends is underway and is driving significant improvement in both top and bottom line results. As I've said in previous calls, there's a new energy at Citi Trends and the results we get to share with you today are proof that our team's hard work is paying off. Turning to the specifics of second quarter results. Starting with the top line, Q2 sales were $190.8 million, up 8% compared to Q2 2024 with comp store sales growth of 9.2%, our fourth consecutive quarter of mid- or high single-digit comps.Citi Trends์˜ ๋ณ€ํ˜์ด ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ด๋ฉฐ ๋งค์ถœ๊ณผ ์ˆ˜์ต ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ์ด๋Œ์–ด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ „ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, Citi Trends์—๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ™œ๋ ฅ์ด ๋„˜์น˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ณผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ ์‹ค์ ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํŒ€์˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ด ๊ฒฐ์‹ค์„ ๋งบ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์˜ ์„ธ๋ถ€ ๋‚ด์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € ๋งค์ถœ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ, 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ์€ 1์–ต 9,080๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ 2024๋…„ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 8% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์€ 9.2%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ๋˜๋Š” ๋†’์€ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•œ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์—ฐ์† ์‹ค์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We delivered high single-digit comps in each month of the quarter and saw growth to last year, in each of our retail metrics, traffic, basket and conversion as the impact of our revised merchandise assortment, including off-price deals and more branded extreme value products continues to resonate strongly. As Ken mentioned in his remarks and similar to our first quarter results, second quarter top line improvement to last year is a story of consistency. We saw consistent results across climate zones and across store volumes, and we drove consistent broad-based strength across most product categories.๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋‚ด ๋งค์›” ๋†’์€ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์˜คํ”„ํ”„๋ผ์ด์Šค ๋”œ๊ณผ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ดˆ์ €๊ฐ€ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ๊ฐœํŽธ๋œ ์ƒํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋ฐ˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ผ์œผํ‚ค๋ฉด์„œ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์œ ์ž…, ๊ฐ๋‹จ๊ฐ€, ์ „ํ™˜์œจ ๋“ฑ ๋ชจ๋“  ์†Œ๋งค ์ง€ํ‘œ์—์„œ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Ken์ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•œ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ๊ณผ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ, 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ ๊ฐœ์„ ์€ ์ผ๊ด€์„ฑ์˜ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐํ›„๋Œ€๋ณ„, ๋งค์žฅ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ณ„๋กœ ์ผ๊ด€๋œ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋ณด์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ์ผ๊ด€๋˜๊ณ  ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ์ด๋Œ์–ด๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We produced a 40% gross margin rate in the quarter as planned, our highest Q2 rate since fiscal 2021 and an 890 basis point expansion versus Q2 last year. Recall that in the second quarter of last year, we incurred significant markdowns from our strategic inventory reset, allowing us to exit aged and slow-moving products while freeing up open to buy for our revised product strategy. The effect of lapping that event, net of the in-season markdown cadence established last year, significantly improved year-over-year markdown expense. We also drove decreased shrink expense in the quarter as a result of ongoing cross-functional efforts plus the lap of an accrual adjustment last year.๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๊ณ„ํš๋Œ€๋กœ 40%์˜ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” 2021 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ดํ›„ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์ตœ๊ณ ์น˜์ด์ž ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 890bp(๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šคํฌ์ธํŠธ) ํ™•๋Œ€๋œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๋…„ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์ „๋žต์  ์žฌ๊ณ  ์žฌ์กฐ์ •์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ๋งˆํฌ๋‹ค์šด์„ ๋‹จํ–‰ํ–ˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋…ธํ›„ํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ํŒ๋งค ๋ถ€์ง„ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค์„ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ๊ฐœํŽธ๋œ ์ œํ’ˆ ์ „๋žต์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋งค์ž… ์—ฌ๋ ฅ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ผํšŒ์„ฑ ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ €ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์ž‘๋…„์— ํ™•๋ฆฝ๋œ ์‹œ์ฆŒ ์ค‘ ๋งˆํฌ๋‹ค์šด ์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์•ˆํ•˜๋”๋ผ๋„ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋งˆํฌ๋‹ค์šด ๋น„์šฉ์„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๊ฐœ์„ ์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๋ถ€์„œ ๊ฐ„ ํ˜‘์—… ๋…ธ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์ž‘๋…„ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ถฉ๋‹น๊ธˆ ์กฐ์ •๋ถ„์˜ ๊ธฐ์ €ํšจ๊ณผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์žฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ชจ ๋น„์šฉ๋„ ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Our broad-based Q2 margin rate improvement was also impacted by higher selling margins due to increased full price selling and a favorable mix of higher-margin products, all while maintaining our sharp price value equation throughout the store. And finally, we saw improvement in cost of freight from favorable contract rates put in place last fall. Second quarter adjusted SG&A expense totaled $78.9 million compared to $72.1 million in the prior period. The increase to last year was driven by higher incentive compensation accrual on improved business performance and store and DC expense to process higher sales.2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๋งˆ์ง„์œจ ๊ฐœ์„ ์€ ์ •๊ฐ€ ํŒ๋งค ์ฆ๊ฐ€์™€ ๊ณ ๋งˆ์ง„ ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ฏน์Šค๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ํŒ๋งค ๋งˆ์ง„ ์ƒ์Šน์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋งค์žฅ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ๋ฐฉ์ •์‹์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ์ง€๋‚œ ๊ฐ€์„์— ์ฒด๊ฒฐํ•œ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ๊ณ„์•ฝ ์š”์œจ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์šด์†ก๋น„ ๊ฐœ์„  ํšจ๊ณผ๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์กฐ์ • ํŒ๊ด€๋น„๋Š” 7,890๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ 7,210๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ์‚ฌ์—… ์„ฑ๊ณผ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๊ธ‰ ์ ๋ฆฝ๊ธˆ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์™€ ๋†’์€ ๋งค์ถœ์„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋งค์žฅ ๋ฐ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ ๋น„์šฉ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
As we shared with you in our last call, we reinstated incentive compensation accruals in Q1 of fiscal 2025 after incurring very minimal bonus and equity expense in the last 3 quarters of fiscal 2024, causing a bonus to no bonus comparison in the second quarter. On a rate basis, Q2 adjusted SG&A was 41.3% of revenue, 50 basis points higher than the 40.8% rate in Q2 last year. The rate increase was driven entirely by this year's incentive compensation accruals. All other SG&A levered by approximately 150 basis points in the quarter, reflecting continued disciplined cost controls and the impact of improved top line results.์ง€๋‚œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, 2024 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ 3๊ฐœ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ๋งค์šฐ ์ตœ์†Œํ•œ์˜ ๋ณด๋„ˆ์Šค ๋ฐ ์ฃผ์‹ ๋ณด์ƒ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ๊ณ„์ƒํ•œ ํ›„, 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์„ฑ๊ณผ๊ธ‰ ๋ณด์ƒ ์ถฉ๋‹น๊ธˆ์„ ์žฌ๊ฐœํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋กœ ์ธํ•ด 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๋ณด๋„ˆ์Šค ๋Œ€ ๋ฌด๋ณด๋„ˆ์Šค ๋น„๊ต๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„์œจ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์กฐ์ • ํŒ๊ด€๋น„๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ 41.3%๋กœ, ์ž‘๋…„ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ์˜ 40.8% ๋Œ€๋น„ 50bp(๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šคํฌ์ธํŠธ) ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋น„์œจ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ „์ ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ฌํ•ด์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๊ธ‰ ๋ณด์ƒ ์ถฉ๋‹น๊ธˆ์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์™ธ ๋ชจ๋“  ํŒ๊ด€๋น„๋Š” ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ค‘ ์•ฝ 150bp ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์—„๊ฒฉํ•œ ๋น„์šฉ ํ†ต์ œ์™€ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ๋งค์ถœ ์‹ค์ ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
And it's important to note that for the first half of the year, total adjusted SG&A, including incentive comp, levered about 90 basis points to last year. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was a loss of $2.6 million, in line with management expectations and an increase of $14.6 million versus Q2 2024 results. In the quarter, we sold our 72,000 square foot building in Savannah, Georgia, realizing a gain on the sale of approximately $11 million, which is included in reported net income and reported EBITDA, but is excluded from adjusted results.๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ ์ „์ฒด ์กฐ์ • ํŒ๋งค๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„(adjusted SG&A)๋Š” ์ธ์„ผํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ๋ณด์ƒ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์—ฌ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์•ฝ 90bp ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•  ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์กฐ์ • EBITDA๋Š” 260๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์†์‹ค์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์˜ ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜์™€ ์ผ์น˜ํ•˜๊ณ  2024๋…„ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 1,460๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์กฐ์ง€์•„์ฃผ ์‚ฌ๋ฐ”๋‚˜์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ 72,000ํ‰๋ฐฉํ”ผํŠธ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์„ ๋งค๊ฐํ•˜์—ฌ ์•ฝ 1,100๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๋งค๊ฐ ์ฐจ์ต์„ ์‹คํ˜„ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ณด๊ณ  ์ˆœ์ด์ต๊ณผ ๋ณด๊ณ  EBITDA์—๋Š” ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋‚˜ ์กฐ์ • ์‹ค์ ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ œ์™ธ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We will maintain our presence in Savannah, having leased a new smaller office space, not far from the building we sold, giving our teams a fresh new space for continued collaboration. During Q2, we remodeled 19 stores, ending the quarter with 28% of the fleet in an updated format. We also closed one store in the quarter, bringing our total store count to 590 locations. Before turning to the balance sheet, let me provide a few details on our performance in the first half of fiscal 2025. First half comparable store sales were 9.6% with a 2-year comp stack of 10.3%. First half comps were driven by approximately 6% increase in transactions.์‚ฌ๋ฐ”๋‚˜์—์„œ์˜ ์ž…์ง€๋Š” ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋งค๊ฐํ•œ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์—์„œ ๋ฉ€์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ณณ์— ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ์ž„์ฐจํ•˜์—ฌ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํŒ€๋“ค์ด ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ˜‘์—…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ 19๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋งํ•˜์—ฌ, ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์ „์ฒด ๋งค์žฅ์˜ 28%๊ฐ€ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋œ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ์šด์˜๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ค‘ 1๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ํ์ ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ด ๋งค์žฅ ์ˆ˜๋Š” 590๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฌ๋ฌด์ƒํƒœํ‘œ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์ „์—, 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์„ธ๋ถ€์‚ฌํ•ญ์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๋งค์ถœ์€ 9.6%์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, 2๊ฐœ๋…„ ๋ˆ„์  ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๋งค์ถœ์€ 10.3%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๋งค์ถœ์€ ์•ฝ 6%์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ๊ฑด์ˆ˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์— ์˜ํ•ด ๊ฒฌ์ธ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Adjusted first half EBITDA was $2.8 million, an increase of about $21 million to last year. EBITDA growth was driven by $29 million of incremental sales, 480 basis points of gross margin rate expansion and 90 basis points of SG&A leverage. Now turning to the balance sheet. Total inventory dollars at quarter end, decreased 12.9% compared to last year, with average in-store inventory down 5.7%. Our success in driving high single-digit increases -- sales increases with less inventory reflects our focus on improved inventory efficiency through higher turns plus improvements in supply chain speed. We remain pleased with our inventory level, composition and freshness.์กฐ์ • ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ EBITDA๋Š” 280๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ, ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์•ฝ 2,100๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. EBITDA ์„ฑ์žฅ์€ 2,900๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์ฆ๋ถ„ ๋งค์ถœ, 480bp์˜ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ  ํ™•๋Œ€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  90bp์˜ ํŒ๊ด€๋น„ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€์— ์˜ํ•ด ๊ฒฌ์ธ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ƒํƒœํ‘œ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ง ์ด ์žฌ๊ณ ์ž์‚ฐ์€ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 12.9% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ‰๊ท  ๋งค์žฅ ์žฌ๊ณ ๋Š” 5.7% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋” ์ ์€ ์žฌ๊ณ ๋กœ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ํ›„๋ฐ˜์˜ ๋งค์ถœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋†’์€ ํšŒ์ „์œจ์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์žฌ๊ณ  ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ์†๋„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ง‘์ค‘์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ์žฌ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ค€, ๊ตฌ์„ฑ ๋ฐ ์‹ ์„ ๋„์— ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
At the end of the quarter, we remained in a healthy financial position with a strong balance sheet, including no debt, no drawings on our $75 million revolver and $50 million in cash. Now turning to our fiscal 2025 outlook. Based on our first half results, our confidence in the continued effectiveness of our turnaround plan, plus recognition that the macroeconomic environment remains uncertain, we are pleased to update our outlook for 2025 as follows. With the strength of sales in the first half of the year, we now expect full year comp store sales growth of mid- to high single digits, above our previous outlook of mid-single-digit growth.๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋ฌด์ฐจ์ž… ๊ฒฝ์˜, 7,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋ณผ๋ฒ„ ๋Œ€์ถœ ๋ฏธ์‚ฌ์šฉ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  5,000๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ๋ณด์œ  ๋“ฑ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ƒํƒœํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ๊ฑด์ „ํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ „๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ๊ณผ ํ„ด์–ด๋ผ์šด๋“œ ๊ณ„ํš์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ํšจ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ™•์‹ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฑฐ์‹œ๊ฒฝ์ œ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹คํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ๊ฐ์•ˆํ•˜์—ฌ, 2025๋…„ ์ „๋ง์„ ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๊ธฐ์˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ์ดˆ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์— ํž˜์ž…์–ด, ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ด์ œ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์„ ๊ธฐ์กด ์ „๋ง์น˜์ธ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ํ•œ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์—์„œ ์ค‘์ƒ์œ„~์ƒ์œ„ ํ•œ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ๋กœ ์ƒํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ •ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We now expect full year gross margin expansion of approximately 210 to 230 basis points versus 2024, slightly above previous outlook due to improved inventory efficiency and initial progress on our planned supply chain improvements. SG&A is expected to leverage in the range of 60 to 90 basis points versus 2024, consistent with our first half trend and an improvement to our previous outlook. Note that this is inclusive of the build of the incentive comp accrual. To be clear, we now expect full year SG&A expense of approximately $310 million, an increase in guidance due to cost to process and support higher sales and a higher bonus accrual on better business performance.์ด์ œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 2024๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์ด ์•ฝ 210~230bp ํ™•๋Œ€๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ์žฌ๊ณ  ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ณ„ํš๋œ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ๊ฐœ์„ ์˜ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ด์ „ ์ „๋ง๋ณด๋‹ค ์†Œํญ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒ๋งค๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„๋Š” 2024๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 60~90bp ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ ์ถ”์„ธ์™€ ์ผ์น˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด์ „ ์ „๋ง ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ณผ๊ธ‰ ์ถฉ๋‹น๊ธˆ ์ ๋ฆฝ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž„์„ ์œ ์˜ํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์ด์ œ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ํŒ๋งค๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„๋Š” ์•ฝ 3์–ต 1์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋†’์€ ๋งค์ถœ์„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ์šฐ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์—… ์„ฑ๊ณผ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๋†’์€ ๋ณด๋„ˆ์Šค ์ถฉ๋‹น๊ธˆ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
With these updates, we now expect full year EBITDA to be in the range of $7 million to $11 million, an increase to previous outlook. This revised guidance is $21 million to $25 million above fiscal 2024 results. There is no change to our expected effective tax rate of approximately 0% for the year. We now expect to open 3 new stores, close 3 stores and to remodel approximately 60 locations in the year. And finally, full year capital expenditures are now expected to be in the range of $22 million to $25 million. Before I turn the call back to Ken, I'll reiterate that we are very proud of our Q2 and first half results and the meaningful progress we've achieved so far.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜์—ฌ, ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ด์ œ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ EBITDA๊ฐ€ 700๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 1,100๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒ”์œ„์— ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ด์ „ ์ „๋ง ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ƒํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ •๋œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ˆ˜์ •๋œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋Š” 2024 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์‹ค์  ๋Œ€๋น„ 2,100๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 2,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์˜ˆ์ƒ ์œ ํšจ์„ธ์œจ ์•ฝ 0%์—๋Š” ๋ณ€๋™์ด ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ด์ œ ์—ฐ๋‚ด ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ 3๊ฐœ ์˜คํ”ˆ, 3๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ ํ์ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•ฝ 60๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ž๋ณธ์  ์ง€์ถœ์€ ์ด์ œ 2,200๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 2,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒ”์œ„์— ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Ken์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์ „์—, ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ฐ ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ๊ณผ ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•œ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ง„์ „์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ์žฌ์ฐจ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Our teams remain focused on continuous improvement with full recognition that there are still significant opportunities ahead of us. We still have processes to refine and areas to optimize as we continue the transformation of our business. The consistency of our performance over the past 4 quarters gives me confidence that we're building something durable and that our disciplined approach to driving shareholder value will continue to deliver results. With that, I'll turn the call back to Ken. Ken? Kenneth Duane Seipel

Thank you, Heather. Before we open the call to Q&A, I do want to share a few thoughts about our longer-range growth for Citi Trends.
์ €ํฌ ํŒ€์€ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์ธ์‹ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์—… ์ „ํ™˜์„ ๊ณ„์†ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค์™€ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์˜์—ญ์ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ์˜ ์ผ๊ด€๋œ ์‹ค์ ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฃผ์ฃผ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ฒด๊ณ„์ ์ธ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ผ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ™•์‹ ์„ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ Ken์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Ken?

Kenneth Duane Seipel

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, Heather. ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „์—, Citi Trends์˜ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
So looking forward, we are preparing for store expansion growth. We expect to remodel approximately 50 stores per year and expand square footage in the mid-single-digit range. We have engaged a third-party analytics team to assist us with dissecting the demographics, psychographics and geo proximity location of our current customers right down to the individual household level. These insights, coupled with a robust financial pro forma, will greatly improve our accuracy in real estate site selection, leading to improved new store return on investment performance. We have identified several MSAs that are attractive expansion opportunities for Citi Trends in 2026 and beyond.์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋งค์žฅ ํ™•์žฅ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์•ฝ 50๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ๋งค์žฅ ๋ฉด์ ์„ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋กœ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ œ3์ž ๋ถ„์„ํŒ€์„ ๊ณ ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ์ธ๊ตฌํ†ต๊ณ„, ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌํ†ต๊ณ„, ์ง€๋ฆฌ์  ๊ทผ์ ‘์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ๊ฐ€๊ตฌ ์ˆ˜์ค€๊นŒ์ง€ ์„ธ๋ฐ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ถ„์„ํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฌด ํ”„๋กœํฌ๋งˆ(pro forma)์™€ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•˜๋ฉด, ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ ์ž…์ง€ ์„ ์ •์˜ ์ •ํ™•๋„๊ฐ€ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ํ–ฅ์ƒ๋˜์–ด ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ์˜ ํˆฌ์ž์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ (ROI) ์„ฑ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 2026๋…„ ์ดํ›„ Citi Trends์˜ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ํ™•์žฅ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๋  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ MSA(๋Œ€๋„์‹œ๊ถŒ)๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Long range, our goal at Citi Trends is to achieve $40 million or more of EBITDA by 2027 -- in 2027. This will be driven by consistent single-digit sales growth, gross margin dollar expansion, leveraged SG&A and new store expansion. Each initiative within our value creation plan is supported by clear accountability, key performance indicators and execution rigor. Our leadership team is highly engaged in building out the detailed plans to execute and is fully committed to making these plans a reality. In summary, Citi Trends has delivered 4 consecutive quarters of comp growth, underpinned by transaction increases, broad-based product strength and disciplined execution.์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ Citi Trends์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” 2027๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ 4์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ์˜ EBITDA๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ผ๊ด€๋œ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ, ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ํ™•๋Œ€, SG&A ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ ํšจ๊ณผ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ํ™•์žฅ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ ๊ณ„ํš ๋‚ด ๊ฐ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋Š” ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ์ฑ…์ž„ ์†Œ์žฌ, ํ•ต์‹ฌ์„ฑ๊ณผ์ง€ํ‘œ(KPI), ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—„๊ฒฉํ•œ ์‹คํ–‰ ์ฒด๊ณ„๋กœ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์€ ์„ธ๋ถ€ ์‹คํ–‰ ๊ณ„ํš ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝ์— ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ณ„ํš๋“ค์„ ํ˜„์‹คํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ „์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์š”์•ฝํ•˜์ž๋ฉด, Citi Trends๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ๊ฑด์ˆ˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€, ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ฐ•์„ธ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทœ์œจ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹คํ–‰์— ํž˜์ž…์–ด 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์—ฐ์† ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Our strategy is working, our operational capabilities are advancing and our customer connection is strengthening. But there's still a lot of work to do. We have processes to refine. We have categories to optimize and more systems to build, but the path forward is clear. We are confident in our ability to deliver continued transformation, drive shareholder value and expand our role as the leading neighborhood retailer for African-American families. I'll say thank you to our Citi Trends team for their discipline, their dedication and great results, and thank you to our shareholders for your continued confidence and support.์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ „๋žต์€ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์šด์˜ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์€ ํ–ฅ์ƒ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ์˜ ์œ ๋Œ€๋Š” ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์•„์ง ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ผ์ด ๋งŽ์ด ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ๋“ค๋„ ๋” ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐˆ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์€ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ํ˜์‹ ์„ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ณ , ์ฃผ์ฃผ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด๊ณ„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ ๊ฐ€์ •์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์„ ๋„์ ์ธ ๊ทผ๋ฆฐ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์— ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทœ์œจ๊ณผ ํ—Œ์‹ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€ Citi Trends ํŒ€์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ, ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์‹ ๋ขฐ์™€ ์ง€์›์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด์ฃผ์‹  ์ฃผ์ฃผ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜๋„ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
And with that, I'll turn the call back over to the operator for questions. Donna?์ด์ œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ตํ™˜์›์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Donna?

๐Ÿ“Œ ์š”์•ฝ

# Citi Trends 2025๋…„ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ์š”์•ฝ

## ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์„ฑ๊ณผ
- **4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์—ฐ์† ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ**: 2Q25 ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ 9.2% ์ฆ๊ฐ€, ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ 9.6% ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋กœ 13๊ฐœ์›” ์—ฐ์† ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ ์ง€์†
- **๋งˆ์ง„ ๋Œ€ํญ ๊ฐœ์„ **: 2Q ์ด๋งˆ์ง„์œจ 40%๋กœ 890bp ํ™•๋Œ€(์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„), ์ˆ˜๋…„ ๋‚ด ์ตœ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ค€ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ. ์žฌ๊ณ  ํšจ์œจํ™”์™€ ์ •๊ฐ€ ํŒ๋งค ์ฆ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ์š” ์š”์ธ
- **EBITDA ํ‘์ž ์ „ํ™˜**: 2Q ์กฐ์ • EBITDA -$2.6M(์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ $14.6M ๊ฐœ์„ ), ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ $2.8M(์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ $21M ๊ฐœ์„ )
- **๊ฑด์ „ํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฌด๊ตฌ์กฐ**: ๋ฌด์ฐจ์ž…, $50M ํ˜„๊ธˆ ๋ณด์œ , ์žฌ๊ณ  12.9% ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋งค์ถœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ

## ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ์ƒํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ •
- **์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ „๋ง ๊ฐœ์„ **: ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ  mid-to-high single digits๋กœ ์ƒํ–ฅ(๊ธฐ์กด mid-single), ์ด๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€ 210~230bp, SG&A ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ 60~90bp ์˜ˆ์ƒ
- **EBITDA ๋ชฉํ‘œ**: 2025๋…„ $7M~$11M(์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ $21M~$25M ์ฆ๊ฐ€), 2027๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ $40M ์ด์ƒ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ ๋ชฉํ‘œ
- **๋งค์žฅ ํ™•์žฅ ๊ณ„ํš**: 2025๋…„ ์‹ ๊ทœ 3๊ฐœ์ , ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง 60๊ฐœ์  ์˜ˆ์ •. ํ–ฅํ›„ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ 50๊ฐœ์  ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง ๋ฐ mid-single


โ“ Q&A

Original Translation
Operator: [Operator Instructions]. Our first question today is coming from Michael Baker of D.A. Davidson.**Operator:** 200000

[์šด์˜์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด]. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ D.A. Davidson์˜ Michael Baker๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Michael Allen Baker: Okay. Great. Hopefully, you can hear me. I wanted to ask -- great quarter. One question, one follow-up. Let's first, just talk about the expenses and the incentive comp and how that plays out going forward? And just sort of how should we think about expenses on a quarterly basis? I think the math implies about $78 million in SG&A for each quarter in the back half on average. Is that the right run rate going forward as we think about 2026 and 2027?**Michael Allen Baker:** ์ข‹์€ ์‹ค์  ์ถ•ํ•˜๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์งˆ๋ฌธ ํ•˜๋‚˜์™€ ํ›„์† ์งˆ๋ฌธ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € ๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๊ธ‰ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€๋ฐ์š”, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ „๊ฐœ๋ ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ณ„ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ๊นŒ์š”? ์ œ ๊ณ„์‚ฐ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ ๊ฐ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋‹น ํ‰๊ท  ์•ฝ 7,800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ํŒ๊ด€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์˜ค๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. 2026๋…„๊ณผ 2027๋…„์„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•  ๋•Œ ์ด๊ฒŒ ์ ์ •ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ธ๊ฐ€์š”?
Heather Plutino: Mike, Heather, hear you loud and clear. A question on SG&A, sure. $78 million per quarter, I think that's exactly right. The thing that I will remind you of, though, that's a good average per quarter, but Q4 ticks up about 3% versus Q3 because of holiday sales. So just kind of think about that as you calendarize. And as we go forward into 2026, we haven't conveyed that yet broadly. I can help you with modeling in our follow-up call.**Heather Plutino:** ๋„ค, Mike, Heather, ๋ง์”€ ์ž˜ ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. SG&A ๊ด€๋ จ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด์‹œ๊ตฐ์š”. ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋‹น 7,800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ, ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฒƒ์€, ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ํ‰๊ท ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ทธ ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋งž์ง€๋งŒ, 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋Š” ์—ฐํœด ์‹œ์ฆŒ ํŒ๋งค ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์•ฝ 3% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ์ • ๊ณ„ํš ์„ธ์šฐ์‹ค ๋•Œ ์ด ์ ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  2026๋…„์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ๋Š” ์•„์ง ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”๊ฐ€ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ›„์† ํ†ตํ™”์—์„œ ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง์— ๋„์›€์„ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Michael Allen Baker: Well, I guess I don't want to waste my follow-up on this, but let me ask 2 more, if I could. One, just thinking about that and the gross margin outlook, what's the right sort of incremental margin flow-through on incremental sales? I understand there's a lot of noise this year, particularly as you cycled some things last year, but more about 2026 and 2027, how do we think about incremental margins?**Michael Allen Baker:** ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ด๊ฒƒ์— ๋‚ญ๋น„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ๋” ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ์งธ, ๊ทธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„๊ณผ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ  ์ „๋ง์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ๋•Œ, ์ฆ๋ถ„ ๋งค์ถœ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์ฆ๋ถ„ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ๋ฆ„์€ ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„์ธ๊ฐ€์š”? ์˜ฌํ•ด๋Š” ์ž‘๋…„์— ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋งŽ์€ ๋ณ€๋™์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, 2026๋…„๊ณผ 2027๋…„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ฆ๋ถ„ ๋งˆ์ง„์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ๊นŒ์š”?
Heather Plutino: Yes. So we've mentioned before that our goal is 20% to 25% EBITDA flow-through, which we define as the change in EBITDA over the change of sales versus the prior year. This particular fiscal year is a little choppy because of some odd compares in the last year period and the builds of the incentive comp this year. So if you try to normalize that, then you end up at about 25% certainly in the back half of the year of 2025. But that's what we're looking at going forward is 20% to 25% profit flow-through.**Heather Plutino:** ๋„ค, ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ๋“ฏ์ด ์ €ํฌ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” EBITDA ํ”Œ๋กœ์šฐ์Šค๋ฃจ(flow-through) 20~25%์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋งค์ถœ ๋ณ€ํ™” ๋Œ€๋น„ EBITDA ๋ณ€ํ™”๋กœ ์ •์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๋Š” ์ž‘๋…„ ๋น„๊ต ๊ธฐ์ค€์ด ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋ถˆ๊ทœ์น™ํ•˜๊ณ  ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ธ์„ผํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ๋ณด์ƒ์ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ๋ณ€๋™์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ์ •์ƒํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉด 2025๋…„ ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์•ฝ 25% ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ 20~25%์˜ ์ด์ต ํ”Œ๋กœ์šฐ์Šค๋ฃจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Michael Allen Baker: Got it. All right. If I could sneak in one more. I'm intrigued by the trend director, I think you called her or Fashion Creative Director or him, I guess I don't know her. Any examples of what you're learning from that new hire, how we think that might show up in terms of what the merchandise looks like?**Michael Allen Baker:** ์•Œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋งŒ ๋” ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ ๋””๋ ‰ํ„ฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜์…จ๋‚˜์š”, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ํŒจ์…˜ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์—์ดํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ๋””๋ ‰ํ„ฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜์…จ๋‚˜์š”, ๊ทธ ๋ถ„์ด ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์ธ์ง€๋Š” ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ์š”. ๊ทธ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ธ์žฌ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ƒํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์— ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜์˜๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Kenneth Duane Seipel: Yes. A couple of things on that, Mike. Thanks for the question. Since she's joined, she's really been acutely focused on really interpreting and understanding the consumer voice, but more importantly, the current landscape around the consumer. And what we've been able to gain from her insights is really taking the -- what I call the voice of the consumer and starting to translate that into tangible style and tangible trends. So looking at, obviously, all the emerging things that are happening culturally around on the landscape, it's pretty difficult to sift through all that. But she's done a nice job of sifting through all the things, all the noise out there and distilling it into a handful of key focus trends. And what that has allowed our merchants to do then is to go to market with very specific filters on curating against this trend. And so we're starting to see some of that show up. I gave props to our men's team earlier. They've done a nice job of embracing the concept right out of the gate, and they're getting good results in addition to the work that they're doing in their core programs, which has been good work. So these 2 things kind of coming together give us a sense that we're on to something. And I believe that you'll start to see the results of better, more accurate and more thoughtful curation as we get into Q4. I'm really excited about where we're headed there.**Kenneth Duane Seipel:** ๋„ค, ๊ทธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, Mike. ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€๊ฐ€ ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•œ ์ดํ›„๋กœ ์†Œ๋น„์ž์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ•ด์„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ •๋ง ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋ฅผ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ผ ํ˜„์žฌ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ํ†ต์ฐฐ๋ ฅ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์–ป์€ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ์†Œ๋น„์ž์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์ธ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ๊ณผ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌธํ™”์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ˜„์ƒ๋“ค์„ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๋ฉด, ๊ทธ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ฑธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์–ด๋ ต์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์™ธ๋ถ€์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ๋“ค, ๋ชจ๋“  ์žก์Œ๋“ค์„ ์ž˜ ๊ฑธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด์„œ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๋กœ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ €ํฌ ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ €๋“ค์€ ์ด ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ์— ๋งž์ถฐ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ํ•„ํ„ฐ๋กœ ํ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์‹œ์žฅ์— ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ด์ œ ๊ทธ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋“ค์ด ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์„œ ๋‚จ์„ฑ๋ณต ํŒ€์„ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋“ค์€ ์ฒ˜์Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ด ์ปจ์…‰์„ ์ž˜ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์—ฌ ์ข‹์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์กด ํ•ต์‹ฌ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์—์„œ๋„ ์ข‹์€ ์ž‘์—…์„ ํ•ด์™”๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์— ๋”ํ•ด ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋“ค์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์ฃ . ์ด ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ฐ€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์–ด์šฐ๋Ÿฌ์ง€๋ฉด์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋œ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ํ™•์‹ ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ๋” ๋‚˜์€, ๋” ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋” ์„ธ์‹ฌํ•œ ํ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋“ค์„ ๋ณด์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ์˜ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ •๋ง ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ํฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: The next question is coming from Jeremy Hamblin of Craig Hallum.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Craig Hallum์˜ Jeremy Hamblin์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋“ค์–ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jeremy Scott Hamblin: Congrats on the impressive results. I wanted to get into the commentary about -- it sounds like seeing momentum has really continued here in Q3 even as you're lapping much, much tougher compares. I wanted to see if you can provide a bit more color on what's driving that sustained momentum. I know you talked about broad-based execution in Q2. But are you seeing more branded deals potentially driving the sustained strength or more well-rounded assortment? Any color you might be able to share on that would be helpful.**Jeremy Scott Hamblin:** ์ธ์ƒ์ ์ธ ์‹ค์ ์— ์ถ•ํ•˜๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ฝ”๋ฉ˜ํŠธ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€๋ฐ์š”, ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๋†’์€ ๊ธฐ์ €ํšจ๊ณผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์ด ์ง€์†๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์„ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•˜๋Š” ์š”์ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์‹คํ–‰๋ ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๊ฐ€ ๋” ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ•์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์ง€์†๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด์ง€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰์ด ๋” ๊ท ํ˜•์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ–์ถฐ์ง„ ๊ฑด์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Kenneth Duane Seipel: Yes. Sure, Jeremy. Thanks for the question. And it literally is all of the above. What's happened, I think, in the course of the last year is we've continued to refine starting first, I mentioned on the call earlier, our preseason planning capabilities where we've really been thoughtful about how do we go in and attack the season as we call it. So we really -- we put a good road map out there for winning in Q3 and what do we need to do to get Q3 off to a good start from a back-to-school perspective. And then that was supported with very thoughtful plans from all of our merchant teams. We do something in a category review process where we generally put stakes in the ground on what categories can grow. And then behind that, then we back that up with the finances, right, and the open to buy and the amount of receipts required to support those ideas. And it's a very basic program, to be honest with you, most retailers do it, but I think we're doing it better than ever and very disciplined and very thoughtful about it. And then the bottom line is you can put a good plan together, but then it comes down to execution. So that's where our teams have been out in the market, finding the better product, finding the better styles. So I'd give you a combination, and you can see this in our store, but to give you one example, the team really embraced the brand True Religion, which has been around for a while, but it's actually resonated across the board with our consumers, and it was shared against multiple categories, and it's showing up across the store in all lines versus just in one category, where we might have approached that in the past. And those ideas like that, there are many more that our teams are building on each other's ideas, and we're starting to see a much better curated product assortment for the total consumer. And then I'd be remiss if I didn't mention our teams in the field and the execution that's going on there, where they've really stepped up their game considerably when it comes to moving freight from the backroom to the floor in a more expedient way. Presentation standards have improved and our DC as well as moving things through. So it literally is from my desk, it's a combination of all things kind of coming together quite well. And I guess I would also share with you that as we sit around as a leadership team and think about what's working and what opportunities we have ahead, frankly, we come up with more things on the to-do list than we do on the done list, right? And it's a little bit humbling to realize how far we've come and how far we really have to go. But anyway, I'm sorry about the rambling answer there, but the point is it really truly is -- it's a combination of all of the detailed execution of the strategy kind of coming together.**Kenneth Duane Seipel:** ๋„ค, ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, Jeremy. ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ๋‹ค ํ•ด๋‹น๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ 1๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ผ์–ด๋‚œ ์ผ์€, ์šฐ์„  ์•ž์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์‹œ์ฆŒ ์ „ ๊ธฐํš ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•ด์™”๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์ฆŒ์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ณต๋žตํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ •๋ง ์‹ฌ๋„ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—์„œ ์Šน๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ๋กœ๋“œ๋งต์„ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์‹ ํ•™๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ฆŒ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ข‹์€ ์ถœ๋ฐœ๋กœ ์ด๋Œ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์ •๋ฆฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง• ํŒ€์˜ ๋งค์šฐ ์น˜๋ฐ€ํ•œ ๊ณ„ํš์œผ๋กœ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์–ด๋–ค ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์ค€์ ์„ ์„ค์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ๋’ค์—๋Š” ์žฌ๋ฌด์ ์ธ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜คํ”ˆ ํˆฌ ๋ฐ”์ด(open to buy)์™€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋“ค์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ž…๊ณ  ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰์ด์ฃ . ์†”์งํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ์•„์ฃผ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ๋Ÿฌ๋“ค์ด ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ ์–ด๋А ๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ์ž˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์šฐ ์ฒด๊ณ„์ ์ด๊ณ  ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์€ ์ข‹์€ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์„ธ์šธ ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์‹คํ–‰์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ ธ์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํŒ€๋“ค์ด ์‹œ์žฅ์— ๋‚˜๊ฐ€์„œ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ , ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ตดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐํ•ฉ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ๋งค์žฅ์—์„œ ์ง์ ‘ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”, ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค๋ฉด ํŒ€์ด True Religion ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋„์ž…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋Š” ์˜ค๋ž˜์ „๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ํฐ ๋ฐ˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ผ์œผ์ผฐ๊ณ , ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๊ณต์œ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์—๋Š” ํ•œ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์—๋งŒ ๊ตญํ•œํ–ˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ผ์ธ์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋งค์žฅ ์ „์ฒด์—์„œ ์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ํŒ€๋“ค์ด ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ์ „์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ „์ฒด ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ์ž˜ ํ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜๋œ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ˜„์žฅ ํŒ€๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์‹คํ–‰๋ ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐฑ๋ฃธ์—์„œ ๋งค์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ด๋™์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์—์„œ ์ •๋ง ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง„์—ด ๊ธฐ์ค€๋„ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ(DC)์—์„œ๋„ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด๋“ค์„ ๋” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ์•„์ฃผ ์ž˜ ๋งž๋ฌผ๋ ค ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋˜ํ•œ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ ํŒ€์œผ๋กœ์„œ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์•‰์•„ ๋ฌด์—‡์ด ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๊ณ  ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์–ด๋–ค ๊ธฐํšŒ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋…ผ์˜ํ•  ๋•Œ, ์†”์งํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ์™„๋ฃŒ ๋ชฉ๋ก๋ณด๋‹ค ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ผ ๋ชฉ๋ก์ด ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ๋‚˜์˜ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ ์™”๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•  ๊ธธ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋” ๋‚จ์•˜๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์„ ๋•Œ ๊ฒธ์†ํ•ด์ง€๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฅํ™ฉํ•œ ๋‹ต๋ณ€ ๋“œ๋ ค ์ฃ„์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ์š”์ ์€ ์ •๋ง๋กœ ์ „๋žต์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์„ธ๋ถ€์ ์ธ ์‹คํ–‰๋“ค์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ๋˜์–ด ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jeremy Scott Hamblin: Very helpful. I wanted to shift gears then and talk a little bit about the store base. So you've increased the number of remodels from 50 to 60 that you planned for this year, and I think it sounds like 50 on an ongoing basis. And then as you plan to get back into a unit growth mode, should we be thinking that FY '26 is a mid-single-digit type unit growth? And then if you could just share some of the economics behind how much the remodels cost, what type of lift you're getting from them? And then what you expect kind of the new store economics to be on new openings on a go-forward basis?**Jeremy Scott Hamblin:** ๋งค์šฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์ด์ œ ํ™”์ œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ”์„œ ๋งค์žฅ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ๊ณ„ํšํ•˜์‹  ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง ๋งค์žฅ ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ 50๊ฐœ์—์„œ 60๊ฐœ๋กœ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ์…จ๊ณ , ํ–ฅํ›„์—๋Š” 50๊ฐœ ์ •๋„๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜์‹ค ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งค์žฅ ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋ชจ๋“œ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€์‹ค ๊ณ„ํš์ด์‹ ๋ฐ, 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์—๋Š” ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ •๋„์˜ ๋งค์žฅ ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์„ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ ๊นŒ์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง ๋น„์šฉ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋“œ๋Š”์ง€, ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„์˜ ๋งค์ถœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ–ฅํ›„ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ์˜คํ”ˆ ์‹œ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ๋งค์žฅ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ์€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š”์ง€ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”?
Kenneth Duane Seipel: For sure. I'll give you some of the strategy then and have Heather fill in some of the color on the results there for you. But yes, a couple of things. So this year, we did adjust. We actually added a few more remodels. I think we previously announced 50, and we had line of sight to add 10 more for strategic reasons. Actually, to let you know what we're up to, we added some stores in our Jacksonville market in Columbia, South Carolina market to complement a couple of new store openings we have in those markets. We're going to try to go in and revitalize those markets and refresh the brand on an entire MSA basis. I'm excited about what that might do. We're going to learn a little bit more about that. Our new stores opened up in October, and all of those remodels will be completed there. So the reason we added 10 more stores was just to accomplish a full remodel in both of those marketplaces. Going forward, on a new store growth perspective, we are going to get into the mid-single digits. We have line of sight to a number of sites already for 2026. We don't have an exact number of where we're going to be in there, but there will be some number between 25 and 40 new stores in 2026. I would expect at least 25 in that mix, and there may be more, we'll see. We'll have -- I'll be able to announce that on future calls more specifically, but it will be in that range. And then the out years after that, we'll have the flywheel build. So we're still kind of building our pipeline. And as I mentioned earlier in my remarks, we're looking very specifically at opportunistic MSAs across the nation. We've identified many of those already as places to go. And now we have the hard work of trying to get in and find the right site inside of the market. So that work is underway as we speak as well in a lot of key markets. The final thing I'll say in terms of return on investment at a high level, our new stores, we're putting them under a financial rigor. And I want you to think about our new store growth going forward as a triangle, right? There's -- on one side of the triangle is the rigor and discipline around making sure that we have the right site selection, consumer demographics and so forth. The other part of the triangle is the actual end market site itself being in an attractive center and so forth. And then the third part of the triangle is financial rigor, which is making sure that we hold ourselves to a high standard of return on investment. And so with that, I'll turn that over to Heather to let her fill in a little bit of color on that as well as the remodel question you had.**Kenneth Duane Seipel:** ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ „๋žต์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , Heather๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์„ธ๋ถ€ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋ณด์ถฉํ•ด๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์กฐ์ •์„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง ๋งค์žฅ์„ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐœ ๋” ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ „์— 50๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ „๋žต์  ์ด์œ ๋กœ 10๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋” ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, Jacksonville ์‹œ์žฅ๊ณผ South Carolina์˜ Columbia ์‹œ์žฅ์— ๋ช‡ ๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ํ•ด๋‹น ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ ์˜คํ”ˆํ•˜๋Š” ๋งค์žฅ ๋ช‡ ๊ณณ์„ ๋ณด์™„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „์ฒด MSA(๋Œ€๋„์‹œ๊ถŒ) ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด๋‹น ์‹œ์žฅ๋“ค์„ ํ™œ์„ฑํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๋‹จ์žฅํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์–ด๋–ค ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ฌ์ง€ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค์€ 10์›”์— ์˜คํ”ˆํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง ์ž‘์—…๋„ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ ์™„๋ฃŒ๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 10๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•œ ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๋‘ ์‹œ์žฅ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ์ „๋ฉด ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง์„ ์™„๋ฃŒํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•จ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026๋…„์—๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ํ›„๋ณด ๋ถ€์ง€๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•ด ๋†“์€ ์ƒํƒœ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ์ˆซ์ž๋Š” ์•„์ง ํ™•์ •ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, 2026๋…„์—๋Š” 25๊ฐœ์—์„œ 40๊ฐœ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ์˜คํ”ˆํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ์†Œ 25๊ฐœ๋Š” ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋” ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ–ฅํ›„ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ์—์„œ ์ข€ ๋” ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ๊ทธ ๋ฒ”์œ„ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ์ดํ›„ ์—ฐ๋„๋“ค์—๋Š” ํ”Œ๋ผ์ดํœ (flywheel) ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋ณธ๊ฒฉํ™”๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹จ๊ณ„์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ „๊ตญ์˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” MSA๋“ค์„ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฏธ ๋งŽ์€ ์ง€์—ญ์„ ์ง„์ถœ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ง€๋กœ ์‹๋ณ„ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ด์ œ ํ•ด๋‹น ์‹œ์žฅ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ์ ํ•ฉํ•œ ์ž…์ง€๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋Š” ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์ธ ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ž‘์—…์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ๋งŽ์€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํˆฌ์ž์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ  ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฒƒ์€, ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์žฌ๋ฌด์  ์—„๊ฒฉ์„ฑ์„ ์ ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์‚ผ๊ฐํ˜•์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ผ๊ฐํ˜•์˜ ํ•œ ๋ณ€์€ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์ž…์ง€ ์„ ์ •, ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์ธ๊ตฌํ†ต๊ณ„ ๋“ฑ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์—„๊ฒฉํ•จ๊ณผ ๊ทœ์œจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ผ๊ฐํ˜•์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ•œ ์ถ•์€ ์‹ค์ œ ์ตœ์ข… ์‹œ์žฅ ์ž…์ง€ ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์ง€์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ๋“ฑ์˜ ์š”์†Œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์„ธ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ถ•์€ ์žฌ๋ฌด ๊ฑด์ „์„ฑ์ธ๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ํˆฌ์ž์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ (ROI)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋†’์€ ๊ธฐ์ค€์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋„๋ก ์Šค์Šค๋กœ๋ฅผ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„๊ณผ ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง ๊ด€๋ จ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” Heather์—๊ฒŒ ๋„˜๊ฒจ์„œ ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Heather Plutino: Yes. I'm going to start with the remodel, if you don't mind, Jeremy. You asked about remodel expense and results. So remodel expense, you'll remember, I think it was 2023, we cut the expense of a remodel in about half, right? So on average, we're at somewhere between $85,000 per location to $130,000. I can tell you that the remaining remodels for this year are averaging at $100,000 per store, and these are high-volume stores, like $1.9 million per. And then from a results perspective, we continue to see sales lift when we remodel stores. It varies by market, but we're still very comfortable that we're getting return. I think it's important, though, that on a store-by-store basis, that amount is going to change store by store. So in some locations, it's really -- it's a matter of refreshing the fleet and doing a market presentation, right? So Ken just talked about Jacksonville, talked about Columbia, South Carolina. We're going to touch stores in that market to make sure that we are doing a full market press on here's the new iteration of Citi Trends. And what we want excitement in every door, we want excitement with our associates. We don't want anybody to feel left behind. So we're thinking about remodels maybe a little bit differently in that it's about fleet maintenance as much as it is about driving incremental sales. For new stores, the financial rigor that Ken spoke of, yes, absolutely. We are applying financial metrics, making sure we've got the right return on investment. We've got the right payback period. We've got the right with the right, the right, right? We're looking at it very closely in partnership with our real estate team. Top line, you've heard Ken talk about this before. Ideally, we want our per store average at about $1.45 million, not to put too fine a point on it, but $1.45 million per door. Are we going to get that every time? No, but that's what we're striving for, right? And rents at 10%, we've got control payroll, all of that, right? So from a 4-wall flow-through, we look for mid-teens and up to make sure that we're supporting the financial performance of the full chain. So that's kind of a look behind the curtain there.**Heather Plutino:** ๋„ค, ์ œ๋ ˆ๋ฏธ, ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์‹œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง ๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง ๋น„์šฉ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, 2023๋…„์— ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜ ์ •๋„๋กœ ์ค„์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ‰๊ท ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งค์žฅ๋‹น 8๋งŒ 5์ฒœ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 13๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜€๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋‚จ์€ ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋งค์žฅ๋‹น ํ‰๊ท  10๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด๊ณ , ์ด๋“ค์€ ๋งค์žฅ๋‹น ์•ฝ 190๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ •๋„ ๋งค์ถœ์„ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๋งค์ถœ ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋งค์žฅ์„ ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋งํ•  ๋•Œ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งค์ถœ ์ƒ์Šน์„ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์žฅ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ฐจ์ด๋Š” ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ ๊ฑฐ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ ์€ ๋งค์žฅ๋ณ„๋กœ ๊ทธ ๊ธˆ์•ก์ด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋งค์žฅ ๋ฆฌ๋‰ด์–ผ๊ณผ ์‹œ์žฅ ๋‚ด ํ”„๋ ˆ์  ํ…Œ์ด์…˜์ด ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Ken์ด ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ Jacksonville์™€ South Carolina์˜ Columbia์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”, ํ•ด๋‹น ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค์„ ์†๋ด์„œ '์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด Citi Trends์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค'๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ „์ฒด์— ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ๋งค์žฅ์—์„œ ํ™œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์›ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ง์›๋“ค๋„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์—ด์ •์„ ๊ฐ–๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋„ ์†Œ์™ธ๊ฐ์„ ๋А๋ผ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์œผ๋ฉด ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง์„ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ ์ฆ๋Œ€๋งŒํผ์ด๋‚˜ ๋งค์žฅ ์œ ์ง€๊ด€๋ฆฌ ์ธก๋ฉด๋„ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, Ken์ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฌด์  ์—„๊ฒฉํ•จ์„ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์ ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ง€ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์ฒ ์ €ํžˆ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ (ROI)์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ํˆฌ์žํšŒ์ˆ˜ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ ํŒ€๊ณผ ๊ธด๋ฐ€ํžˆ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋งค์šฐ ๋ฉด๋ฐ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š”, Ken์ด ์ „์— ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ์ ์ด ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”, ์ด์ƒ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ ํฌ๋‹น ํ‰๊ท  ๋งค์ถœ์ด ์•ฝ 145๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด ๋˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์›ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ ํฌ๋‹น 145๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค๋ฒˆ ์ด ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ์•„๋‹ˆ์š”, ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชฉํ‘œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ž„์ฐจ๋ฃŒ๋Š” 10% ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด๊ณ , ์ธ๊ฑด๋น„๋„ ํ†ต์ œํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ 4-wall ์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ (Four-wall profitability) ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š” 10% ์ค‘๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ ์ด์ƒ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ „์ฒด ์ฒด์ธ์˜ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ •๋„๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์„ค๋ช…์ด ๋˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jeremy Scott Hamblin: That's great color. If I could sneak in just one more. Ken, on the last call, you had mentioned some supply chain initiatives that you're working on, trying to reduce, I think, the number of days in supply chain and that would allow you to save some money in costs. And I wanted to just understand where are you on that initiative? I know it sounds like as you make progress, you realize you have more progress to make, but I was hoping for a quick update on where that initiative stands.**Jeremy Scott Hamblin:** ์ข‹์€ ์„ค๋ช… ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ๋” ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Ken, ์ง€๋‚œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ๊ด€๋ จ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ์ผ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์ค„์ด๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ ˆ๊ฐํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์ž‘์—…์ด์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ทธ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋А ๋‹จ๊ณ„์— ์™€ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•  ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋“ค์„ ๋” ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ, ํ˜„์žฌ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ฐ„๋‹จํžˆ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
Kenneth Duane Seipel: Yes, for sure, Jeremy. We are in -- again, I use the term early stages, but I think it's fair to say early stages there. We've -- what I would call taken out the low-hanging fruit. Obviously, we're much faster now. And so think about the supply chain in 3 big parts, okay? Part number one is vendor to DC. And we're better at managing that in our transportation routing and speed of picking up there. We've taken out a few days of that moment. Then you have your in-DC processing. And then the third part is DC to store. And we've actually sped up the DC to store considerably. That we've changed our routing to actually UPS carrier, it's taken 3 or 4 days out of the supply chain from DC to store. So the team did that really at the beginning of the year. We've learned how to optimize that, and so we're significantly faster there. The area that we're really focused on right now is what I would call the in-DC portion. And some of the work that is underway is in our receiving characteristics. You mentioned -- I mentioned earlier in Event Analytics, the AI-based system. When we throw the switch on that in September, that will save 2 days out of our receiving process or 1.5 days right there. And then we're going to be adding to that better ticketing standards, which are already being worked on and getting in place right now that will speed up our ticketing portion. And then there's a processing portion, which will speed up as well. So those things have been designed now. We understand what we need to do. Now it's a matter of getting them implemented. And so we're at different stages of implementation. But I would expect over the third quarter that the majority of these ideas will at least be implemented in our DC, and then we'll start to kind of see and feel better optimization as we get into Q4. So it definitely is a work in progress, but we've made good steps forward with a lot more to do there in the DC.**Kenneth Duane Seipel:** ๋„ค, ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, Jeremy. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งŒ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋”ฐ๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณผ์‹ค๋“ค์€ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ˆ˜ํ™•ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋นจ๋ผ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง์„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ 3๊ฐœ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜๋ˆ ์„œ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์—์„œ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ(DC)๊นŒ์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์šด์†ก ๊ฒฝ๋กœ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์™€ ํ”ฝ์—… ์†๋„ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋” ๋‚˜์•„์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ตฌ๊ฐ„์—์„œ ๋ฉฐ์น ์„ ๋‹จ์ถ•ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๋‹ค์Œ์€ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ ๋‚ด ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ๊ณผ์ •์ด ์žˆ๊ณ ์š”. ์„ธ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ์—์„œ ๋งค์žฅ๊นŒ์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ์—์„œ ๋งค์žฅ๊นŒ์ง€์˜ ์†๋„๋ฅผ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šด์†ก ๊ฒฝ๋กœ๋ฅผ UPS ์šด์†ก์—…์ฒด๋กœ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ์—์„œ ๋งค์žฅ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง์—์„œ 3~4์ผ์„ ๋‹จ์ถ•ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒ€์ด ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ดˆ์— ์ด ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ •๋ง ์ž˜ ํ•ด๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ํ„ฐ๋“ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ์†๋„๊ฐ€ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ํ–ฅ์ƒ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜์—ญ์€ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ ๋‚ด๋ถ€(in-DC) ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ ์ž‘์—… ์ค‘ ์ผ๋ถ€๋Š” ์ž…๊ณ  ํŠน์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ Event Analytics, ์ฆ‰ AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ 9์›”์— ๊ฐ€๋™ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ž…๊ณ  ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค์—์„œ ๋ฐ”๋กœ 2์ผ, ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ๋Š” 1.5์ผ์„ ๋‹จ์ถ•ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ๋”ํ•ด ํ˜„์žฌ ์ž‘์—… ์ค‘์ด๊ณ  ๋„์ž… ๋‹จ๊ณ„์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ํ‹ฐ์ผ“ํŒ… ํ‘œ์ค€์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ธ๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ‹ฐ์ผ“ํŒ… ๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์†๋„๊ฐ€ ๋นจ๋ผ์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ(processing) ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋„ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€๋กœ ์†๋„๊ฐ€ ํ–ฅ์ƒ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์€ ์ด๋ฏธ ์„ค๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์™„๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ ์‹คํ–‰์— ์˜ฎ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋‹จ๊ณ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‹คํ–‰ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ค‘์—๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋“ค์˜ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์ตœ์†Œํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ(DC)์— ๊ตฌํ˜„๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  4๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋กœ ์ ‘์–ด๋“ค๋ฉด์„œ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์ตœ์ ํ™” ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ฒด๊ฐํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ ์ž‘์—…์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ์—์„œ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ผ๋“ค์ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์ง„์ „์„ ์ด๋ฃจ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Thank you. At this time, I would like to turn the floor back over to Mr. Seipel for closing comments.**Operator:** ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด Seipel ๋‹˜๊ป˜ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Kenneth Duane Seipel: All right. Well, I want to thank everyone for joining us today. We look forward to keeping you updated on our progress. Goodbye.**Kenneth Duane Seipel:** ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹  ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๊ณ„์† ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's event. You may disconnect your lines and log off the webcast at this time, and enjoy the rest of your day.**Operator:** 200000

์‹ ์‚ฌ ์ˆ™๋…€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์ „ํ™” ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ์ข…๋ฃŒํ•˜์‹œ๊ณ  ์›น์บ์ŠคํŠธ์—์„œ ๋กœ๊ทธ์•„์›ƒํ•˜์…”๋„ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚จ์€ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๋‚ด์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ ์š”์•ฝ

# Citi Trends ์‹ค์  ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ ์š”์•ฝ

**์ฃผ์š” ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ง€ํ‘œ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค:**
- 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ SG&A ๋น„์šฉ์€ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋‹น ํ‰๊ท  7,800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์˜ˆ์ƒ (4๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋Š” ํœด์ผ ๋งค์ถœ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 3% ์ฆ๊ฐ€)
- EBITDA ์ฆ๋ถ„ ์ด์ต๋ฅ  ๋ชฉํ‘œ 20~25% ์œ ์ง€, 2025๋…„ ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ ์ •์ƒํ™” ์‹œ ์•ฝ 25% ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ ์ „๋ง
- 2026๋…„ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ 25~40๊ฐœ ์˜คํ”ˆ ๊ณ„ํš (์ค‘๊ฐ„ ๋‹จ์ผ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ )
- ๋งค์žฅ๋‹น ํ‰๊ท  ๋งค์ถœ ๋ชฉํ‘œ 145๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ, ์ž„๋Œ€๋ฃŒ ๋น„์œจ 10%, 4-wall ์ด์ต๋ฅ  ์ค‘๊ฐ„ 10%๋Œ€ ์ด์ƒ ๋ชฉํ‘œ

**๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„ ํ†ค ๋ฐ ์ „๋žต:**
- ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์€ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์‹ค์ ๊ณผ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ ํ‘œ๋ช…
- ๋งค์žฅ ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง์„ 50๊ฐœ์—์„œ 60๊ฐœ๋กœ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์  ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ „๋žต ์ถ”์ง„ (Jacksonville, Columbia ์‹œ์žฅ ์ง‘์ค‘ ๊ณต๋žต)
- ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ ๋””๋ ‰ํ„ฐ ์˜์ž…์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์ƒํ’ˆ ํ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ๊ฐœ์„  ๋ฐ True Religion ๋“ฑ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ํ™•๋Œ€๋กœ ์ „ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ฐœ์„ 
- ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ํšจ์œจํ™” ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘: AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๋„์ž…์œผ๋กœ ์ž…๊ณ  ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค 1.5~2์ผ ๋‹จ์ถ•, DC-๋งค์žฅ ๊ฐ„ ๋ฐฐ์†ก 3~4์ผ ๋‹จ์ถ•

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