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๐Ÿ“„ Earnings Call Transcript ๋ฒˆ์—ญ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ

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Ollie's Bargain Outlet Holdings, Inc.# Ollie's Bargain Outlet Holdings, Inc. ์–ด๋‹์ฝœ ๋ฒˆ์—ญ

*์ฐธ๊ณ : ์‹ค์ œ ์–ด๋‹์ฝœ ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด ์ œ๊ณต๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋‹์ฝœ ์›๋ฌธ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ „๋ฌธ์ ์ธ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋ฒˆ์—ญ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ด๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.*

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๋ฒˆ์—ญ ์‹œ ๋‹ค์Œ ์‚ฌํ•ญ๋“ค์„ ์ค€์ˆ˜ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค:

1. **์žฌ๋ฌด ์šฉ์–ด์˜ ์ •ํ™•์„ฑ**: EBITDA, comparable store sales, gross margin ๋“ฑ ์ „๋ฌธ ์šฉ์–ด๋ฅผ ์—…๊ณ„ ํ‘œ์ค€์— ๋งž๊ฒŒ ๋ฒˆ์—ญ
2. **ํ™”์ž์˜ ์–ด์กฐ ์œ ์ง€**: ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์˜ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ, ์šฐ๋ ค, ๋‚™๊ด€๋ก  ๋“ฑ์„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ „๋‹ฌ
3. **์ˆซ์ž์™€ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์˜ ์ •ํ™•์„ฑ**: ๋ชจ๋“  ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ‘œ๊ธฐ
4. **์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด**: ์ง์—ญ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ์˜์—ญ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ•œ๊ตญ ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋“ค์ด ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์ž‘์„ฑ
5. **๋ฌธ๋งฅ ๋ณด์กด**: ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์„น์…˜์˜ ํ๋ฆ„๊ณผ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์„ ์œ ์ง€

์–ด๋‹์ฝœ ์›๋ฌธ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ฆ‰์‹œ ๋ฒˆ์—ญ ์ž‘์—…์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
(OLLI) Q3 2026 Earnings Call December 9, 2025 8:30 AM EST

Company Participants

John Rouleau
Eric van der Valk - President, CEO & Director
Robert Helm - Executive VP & CFO

Conference Call Participants

Charles Grom - Gordon Haskett Research Advisors
Matthew Boss - JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division
Steven Zaccone - Citigroup Inc., Research Division
Bradley Thomas - KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., Research Division
Sarah Morin - Piper Sandler & Co., Research Division
Mary Smart
Joshua Young - Truist Securities, Inc., Research Division
Anthony Chukumba - Loop Capital Markets LLC, Research Division
Mark Carden - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division
Lauren Ng - Morgan Stanley, Research Division
Edward Kelly - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division
Jeremy Hamblin - Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, Research Division

Presentation

Operator

Good morning, and welcome to Ollie's Bargain Outlet conference call to discuss financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2025.
์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค ๋ฐ”๊ฒ ์•„์šธ๋ ›(OLLI) 2026๋…„ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ
2025๋…„ 12์›” 9์ผ ์˜ค์ „ 8์‹œ 30๋ถ„ (๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋™๋ถ€ ํ‘œ์ค€์‹œ)

ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ฐธ์„์ž

์กด ๋ฃฐ๋กœ
์—๋ฆญ ๋ฐ˜ ๋ฐ์–ด ๋ฐœํฌ - ์‚ฌ์žฅ, CEO ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ
๋กœ๋ฒ„ํŠธ ํ—ฌ๋ฆ„ - ์ „๋ฌด์ด์‚ฌ ๊ฒธ CFO

์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ ์ฐธ์„ ์• ๋„๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ

์ฐฐ์Šค ๊ทธ๋กฌ - ๊ณ ๋“  ํ•ด์Šค์ผ“ ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ์–ด๋“œ๋ฐ”์ด์ €์Šค
๋งคํŠœ ๋ณด์Šค - JP๋ชจ๊ฑด ์ฒด์ด์Šค ์•ค ์ปดํผ๋‹ˆ, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธ ์ž์ฝ”๋„ค - ์‹œํ‹ฐ๊ทธ๋ฃน, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
๋ธŒ๋ž˜๋“ค๋ฆฌ ํ† ๋งˆ์Šค - ํ‚ค๋ฑ…ํฌ ์บํ”ผํ„ธ ๋งˆ์ผ“์ธ , ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
์‚ฌ๋ผ ๋ชจ๋ฆฐ - ํŒŒ์ดํผ ์ƒŒ๋“ค๋Ÿฌ ์•ค ์ปดํผ๋‹ˆ, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธ
์กฐ์Šˆ์•„ ์˜ - ํŠธ๋ฃจ์ด์ŠคํŠธ ์‹œํ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ์ฆˆ, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
์•ค์„œ๋‹ˆ ์ถ”์ฟฐ๋ฐ” - ๋ฃจํ”„ ์บํ”ผํ„ธ ๋งˆ์ผ“์ธ , ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
๋งˆํฌ ์นด๋“  - UBS ์ธ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ๋จผํŠธ ๋ฑ…ํฌ, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
๋กœ๋ Œ ์‘ - ๋ชจ๊ฑด ์Šคํƒ ๋ฆฌ, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
์—๋“œ์›Œ๋“œ ์ผˆ๋ฆฌ - ์›ฐ์Šค ํŒŒ๊ณ  ์‹œํ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ์ฆˆ, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
์ œ๋ ˆ๋ฏธ ํ–„๋ธ”๋ฆฐ - ํฌ๋ ˆ์ด๊ทธ-ํ• ๋Ÿผ ์บํ”ผํ„ธ ๊ทธ๋ฃน, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ

๋ฐœํ‘œ

์šด์˜์ž

์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ. 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋…ผ์˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค ๋ฐ”๊ฒ ์•„์šธ๋ › ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์˜ค์‹  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Please be advised that this call is being recorded, and the reproduction of this call in whole or in part is not permitted without the express written authorization of Ollie's. I would now like to introduce our host for today's call, John Rouleau, Managing Director of Corporate Communications and Business Development for Ollie's. John, please go ahead. John Rouleau

Thank you, and good morning, everybody. We appreciate your time and participation. Joining me on today's call from Ollie's are Eric van der Valk, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Robert Helm, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
์ด ํ†ตํ™”๋Š” ๋…น์Œ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, Ollie's์˜ ๋ช…์‹œ์  ์„œ๋ฉด ์Šน์ธ ์—†์ด๋Š” ์ด ํ†ตํ™”์˜ ์ „์ฒด ๋˜๋Š” ์ผ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๋ณต์ œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Œ์„ ์•Œ๋ ค๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์˜ ์ง„ํ–‰์ž์ธ Ollie's์˜ ๊ธฐ์—… ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆ์ผ€์ด์…˜ ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์—… ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๋‹ด๋‹น ์ „๋ฌด์ด์‚ฌ John Rouleau๋ฅผ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. John, ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์‹œ์ฃ .

John Rouleau

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ์•„์นจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„. ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋‚ด์–ด ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—๋Š” Ollie's์˜ ์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž(CEO) Eric van der Valk์™€ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ตœ๊ณ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ฑ…์ž„์ž(CFO) Robert Helm์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Following their prepared remarks, we will open the call for your questions. We ask that you initially limit yourself to one question to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to participate. If you have additional questions, please reenter the queue. Finally, let me remind you that certain comments made on today's call may constitute forward-looking statements, and these are made pursuant to and within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 as amended. Such forward-looking statements are subject to both known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements.์ค€๋น„๋œ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์ด ๋๋‚œ ํ›„, ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ–๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ํ•œ ๋ถ„๋‹น ํ•œ ๊ฐœ์˜ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ์ œํ•œํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์—ด์— ๋“ฑ๋กํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰๋˜๋Š” ํŠน์ • ๋ฐœ์–ธ๋“ค์€ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ˆ์ธก์ง„์ˆ ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ง„์ˆ ๋“ค์€ ๊ฐœ์ •๋œ 1995๋…„ ์ฆ๊ถŒ์†Œ์†ก๊ฐœํ˜๋ฒ•(Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995)์˜ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•ญ(Safe Harbor) ์กฐํ•ญ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ์˜๋ฏธ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง์„ ์ƒ๊ธฐ์‹œ์ผœ ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ˆ์ธก์ง„์ˆ ์€ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ์œ„ํ—˜๊ณผ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์œ„ํ—˜ ๋ฐ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ ๋ชจ๋‘์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์‹ค์ œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ํ•ด๋‹น ์ง„์ˆ ๊ณผ ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
These risks and uncertainties are described in the company's earnings press release and filings with the SEC, including the annual report on Form 10-K and the quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Forward-looking statements made today are as of the date of this call, and the company does not undertake any obligation to update these statements. On today's call, the company will be referring to certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliation of the most closely comparable GAAP financial measures to the non-GAAP financial measures are included in the company's earnings press release. With that all said, it's my pleasure to turn the call over to Eric.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์œ„ํ—˜๊ณผ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ์€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ์‹ค์  ๋ณด๋„์ž๋ฃŒ์™€ SEC ์ œ์ถœ ์„œ๋ฅ˜์— ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” Form 10-K ์—ฐ์ฐจ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ์™€ Form 10-Q ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ˆ์ธก์ง„์ˆ ์€ ๋ณธ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค์ฝœ ์ผ์ž๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ง„์ˆ ์„ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•  ์˜๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค์ฝœ์—์„œ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” ํŠน์ • ๋น„-GAAP ์žฌ๋ฌด์ง€ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ทผ์ ‘ํ•œ GAAP ์žฌ๋ฌด์ง€ํ‘œ์™€ ๋น„-GAAP ์žฌ๋ฌด์ง€ํ‘œ ๊ฐ„์˜ ์กฐ์ •๋‚ด์—ญ์€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ์‹ค์  ๋ณด๋„์ž๋ฃŒ์— ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์ด์ œ Eric์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ์–ธ๊ถŒ์„ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Eric van der Valk
President, CEO & Director

Good morning. Thank you for joining us today. Our team delivered another strong performance in the third quarter. We opened a record number of new stores, continued to accelerate membership growth in our Ollie's Army loyalty program, widened our price gaps to the fancy stores and delivered industry-leading sales growth, all while driving significant improvement on the bottom line. We are primed and ready for the final days of the holiday season. Our expanded assortment of seasonal and gift items, along with our amazing deals of brand name household products make us the holiday shopping destination.
์—๋ฆญ ๋ฐ˜ ๋ฐ๋ฅด ๋ฐœํฌ
์‚ฌ์žฅ, CEO ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ

์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ž๋ฆฌ์— ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ํŒ€์€ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋„ ๋˜ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ์˜คํ”ˆํ–ˆ๊ณ , Ollie's Army ๋กœ์—ดํ‹ฐ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์˜ ํšŒ์› ์ฆ๊ฐ€์„ธ๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์—…๊ณ„ ์ตœ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ด๋ฃจ๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๋™์‹œ์— ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—ฐ๋ง ์‡ผํ•‘ ์‹œ์ฆŒ์˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋งŒ๋ฐ˜์˜ ์ค€๋น„๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™•๋Œ€๋œ ์‹œ์ฆŒ ์ƒํ’ˆ ๋ฐ ์„ ๋ฌผ ํ’ˆ๋ชฉ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰๊ณผ ๋”๋ถˆ์–ด, ์œ ๋ช… ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ƒํ™œ์šฉํ’ˆ์˜ ๋†€๋ผ์šด ํŠน๊ฐ€ ์ƒํ’ˆ๋“ค์ด ์ €ํฌ๋ฅผ ์—ฐ๋ง ์‡ผํ•‘์˜ ์ตœ์  ๋ชฉ์ ์ง€๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Our comp trends since early October have been strong, and we feel great about our momentum heading into the final weeks of the holiday season. With the better-than-expected third quarter results and a very good start to the fourth quarter, we are raising our full year sales and earnings outlook. Let me provide an update on our strategic growth initiatives and some of the things we are doing from a merchandising, marketing and supply chain perspective to drive our business. Accelerated unit growth and customer acquisition remain our top priorities. We have a predictable, portable and profitable store model that is unlike anything else in the market.10์›” ์ดˆ ์ดํ›„ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๋งค์ถœ ์ถ”์ด๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์—ฐ๋ง ์‡ผํ•‘ ์‹œ์ฆŒ์˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๋ช‡ ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์•ž๋‘๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ์ƒ์„ ์ƒํšŒํ•œ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ๊ณผ ๋งค์šฐ ์–‘ํ˜ธํ•œ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ถœ๋ฐœ์— ํž˜์ž…์–ด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๋งค์ถœ ๋ฐ ์ด์ต ์ „๋ง์„ ์ƒํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ •ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ „๋žต์  ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์™€ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ƒํ’ˆ ๊ธฐํš, ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋ฐ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์‚ฌํ•ญ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋œ ์ ํฌ ํ™•์žฅ๊ณผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ํ™•๋ณด๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ตœ์šฐ์„  ๊ณผ์ œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ๊ทธ ์–ด๋–ค ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ๋„ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ, ์˜ˆ์ธก ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ณ  ํ™•์žฅ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ ํฌ ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We have a huge opportunity ahead of us to continue growing. Our long-term target is 1,300 stores, and we are committed to a minimum 10% annual unit growth to get there. We have the talent and have built the infrastructure to exceed our long-term algo and are delivering accelerated unit growth. We opened 32 new stores in the third quarter and 86 for the year, which is 18% growth. This blew away previous Ollie's records and demonstrated our ability to exceed our algo opportunistically.์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์•ž๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” 1,300๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ตœ์†Œ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ 10%์˜ ์ ํฌ ์ˆ˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์•ฝ์†๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜(์„ฑ์žฅ ๋ชฉํ‘œ)์„ ์ดˆ๊ณผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ธ์žฌ๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ์ธํ”„๋ผ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋œ ์ ํฌ ์ˆ˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์‹คํ˜„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— 32๊ฐœ์˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ์˜คํ”ˆํ–ˆ๊ณ  ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ 86๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ๊ฐœ์ ํ•˜์—ฌ 18% ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” Ollie's์˜ ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ธฐ๋ก์„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฝ์‹ ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์„ ์ดˆ๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์ž…์ฆํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The current environment has been challenging for many retailers, and this, coupled with long-term consolidation in retail, presents a pivotal opportunity for Ollie's to secure attractive second-generation real estate sites. Our entire team deserves a huge shout out for their achievements this year. Not only do we open a record number of new stores, all of our stores were opened before the fourth quarter. We have not made this happen for years, and this allows us to be 100% focused on driving the business in the final months of the year and the critical holiday shopping period. Thank you again, Ollie's dream team of discount retail for making this happen.ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์€ ๋งŽ์€ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์†Œ๋งค์—…๊ณ„์˜ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ํ†ตํํ•ฉ๊ณผ ๋งž๋ฌผ๋ ค Ollie's๊ฐ€ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ 2์„ธ๋Œ€ ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ ๋งค์žฅ ๋ถ€์ง€๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ „์ฒด ํŒ€์€ ์˜ฌํ•ด์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํฐ ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ž๊ฒฉ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ์˜คํ”ˆํ–ˆ์„ ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๋ชจ๋“  ๋งค์žฅ์„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ด์ „์— ๊ฐœ์ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ด๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์—ฐ๋ง ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐœ์›”๊ณผ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์—ฐ๋ง ์‡ผํ•‘ ์‹œ์ฆŒ์— ์‚ฌ์—… ์šด์˜์— 100% ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ์‹คํ˜„ํ•ด ์ค€ ํ• ์ธ ์†Œ๋งค์—…๊ณ„์˜ Ollie's ๋“œ๋ฆผํŒ€์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Opening stores is the first component of our growth strategy. Next is winning the hearts and minds of new customers. We have some of the most dedicated and passionate customers in the business and are fiercely committed to this group. As we open -- as we continue to open new stores, we are focused on acquiring new customers and turning them into loyal Ollie's Army Bargainnots. Our members shop more frequently and spend over 40% more per visit than non-members. They are very important to our business, and we have an opportunity to strengthen our connection and drive lifetime customer value. We are very pleased with customer growth in the third quarter.๋งค์žฅ ์˜คํ”ˆ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ „๋žต์˜ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ ์š”์†Œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์Œ์€ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์‚ฌ๋กœ์žก๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์—…๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํ—Œ์‹ ์ ์ด๊ณ  ์—ด์ •์ ์ธ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฃน์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ „๋…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์˜คํ”ˆํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋“ค์„ ์ถฉ์„ฑ๋„ ๋†’์€ Ollie's Army Bargainnots(์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค ์•„๋ฏธ ๋ฐ”๊ฒŒ์ด๋„ˆ์ธ ) ํšŒ์›์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํšŒ์›๋“ค์€ ๋น„ํšŒ์›๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ์ž์ฃผ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๋‹น 40% ์ด์ƒ ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ์ง€์ถœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์— ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ์˜ ์œ ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ƒ์•  ๊ฐ€์น˜(lifetime customer value)๋ฅผ ์ฆ๋Œ€์‹œํ‚ฌ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์— ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
New memberships in our loyalty program increased 30% year-over-year, while our customer file increased 12%. We have seen new customer acquisition strengthen since the first half of the year and engagement with our existing customers remain strong. Both the younger and higher income groups were the fastest-growing cohorts in the quarter, which we think is in part driven by the continued reallocation of marketing dollars to digital, consumers seeking value and customers trading down. We also continue to enhance the value proposition of our Ollie's Army loyalty program. Last quarter, we talked about the success of the additional Ollie's Army Night and some of the learnings there.์ €ํฌ ๋กœ์—ดํ‹ฐ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ํšŒ์› ๊ฐ€์ž…์€ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 30% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ ํŒŒ์ผ์€ 12% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ ์ดํ›„ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ํ™•๋ณด๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๋„ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์ Š์€ ์—ฐ๋ น์ธต๊ณผ ๊ณ ์†Œ๋“์ธต์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ตฐ์ด์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ์˜ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์ฑ„๋„๋กœ์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์žฌ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„, ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ•˜ํ–ฅ ์†Œ๋น„(trading down)ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์— ์˜ํ•ด ์ด‰์ง„๋œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ํŒ๋‹จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” Ollie's Army ๋กœ์—ดํ‹ฐ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ œ์•ˆ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ถ”๊ฐ€ Ollie's Army Night์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์–ป์€ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The biggest takeaway was the adjustment to the start time of the event. We received positive feedback about the earlier start time and experienced increased foot traffic as a result. The upcoming Ollie's Army Night on Sunday, December 14, will run from 4:00 to 9:00 p.m. compared to 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. last year. If you're not already a member of Ollie's Army, what are you waiting for? We invite you to join, and we look forward to seeing all of you this Sunday. On the merchandising front, let me touch on how we're steering our product mix to drive sales productivity and enhance new customer acquisition.๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋Š” ํ–‰์‚ฌ ์‹œ์ž‘ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์กฐ์ •์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ํ”ผ๋“œ๋ฐฑ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋Š” 12์›” 14์ผ ์ผ์š”์ผ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค ์•„๋ฏธ ๋‚˜์ดํŠธ(Ollie's Army Night)๋Š” ์ž‘๋…„ ์˜คํ›„ 6์‹œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 10์‹œ๊นŒ์ง€์˜€๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ•˜์—ฌ ์˜คํ›„ 4์‹œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 9์‹œ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ง„ํ–‰๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์ง ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค ์•„๋ฏธ ํšŒ์›์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์‹œ๋ผ๋ฉด, ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ๋ง์„ค์ด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ๊ฐ€์ž…์„ ์ดˆ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ผ์š”์ผ์— ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„ ๋ชจ๋‘๋ฅผ ๋ต™๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒํ’ˆ ๊ธฐํš ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ, ๋งค์ถœ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์„ ๋†’์ด๊ณ  ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์œ ์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์„ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Our flexible buying model and treasure hunt shopping experience give us unlimited flexibility in how we assemble our product offering. Our buyers are continuously scouring the marketplace to find the best products at the best prices to put together an ever-changing assortment that combines quality, national brands and price in a way that can only be found at Ollie's. At the same time, we know that customers are prioritizing their spending around their needs and are looking for value. By focusing on value-driven consumable deals, we achieved mid-single-digit increase in comparable store transactions, attracting new customers and increasing engagement.์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์œ ์—ฐํ•œ ๊ตฌ๋งค ๋ชจ๋ธ๊ณผ ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ € ํ—ŒํŠธ(๋ณด๋ฌผ์ฐพ๊ธฐ) ์‡ผํ•‘ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์€ ์ƒํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์— ์žˆ์–ด ๋ฌดํ•œํ•œ ์œ ์—ฐ์„ฑ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด๋“ค์€ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ํƒ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ์ƒํ’ˆ์„ ์ฐพ์•„๋‚ด์–ด, ํ’ˆ์งˆ๊ณผ ์ „๊ตญ์  ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ Ollie's์—์„œ๋งŒ ์ฐพ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•œ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰์„ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์‹œ์—, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ํ•„์š”๋ฅผ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์ง€์ถœ์˜ ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„๋ฅผ ์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์˜ ์†Œ๋ชจํ’ˆ ๋”œ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๊ฑด์ˆ˜์—์„œ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์„ ์œ ์น˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๋„๋ฅผ ๋†’์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Our deal flow continues to be very strong and driven in part by the challenging retail environment. On top of this, our growing size and scale is starting to give us opportunity to steer our category mix. A good example of this is the increased investment we made in the seasonal category. As you may have seen in our stores, we dramatically increased the assortment of seasonal decor over the past year, with the most meaningful changes taking place in our fall harvest, Halloween and Christmas categories. We also grew our holiday gift programs that we initially successfully tested last year.์ €ํฌ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ํ๋ฆ„์€ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์†Œ๋งค ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์— ์˜ํ•ด ์ด‰์ง„๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์— ๋”ํ•ด, ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ๊ทœ๋ชจ์™€ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋Š” ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ๋ฏน์Šค๋ฅผ ์กฐ์ •ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ข‹์€ ์˜ˆ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ฆŒ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž ํ™•๋Œ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์žฅ์—์„œ ๋ณด์…จ์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋“ฏ์ด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ 1๋…„๊ฐ„ ์‹œ์ฆŒ ๋ฐ์ฝ”๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰์„ ๋Œ€ํญ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ€์„ ์ˆ˜ํ™•, ํ• ๋กœ์œˆ, ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ž‘๋…„์— ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธํ–ˆ๋˜ ํ™€๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์ด ์„ ๋ฌผ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ๋„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The changes have been well received by our consumers with seasonal being one of our top-performing categories in the quarter and throughout the year. Marketing continues to be a critical lever in fueling the growth of our business. And over the past year, we've been accelerating a major evolution in how we connect with our customers. As consumer attention shifts -- continues to shift towards digital platforms, our strategy is shifting as well. By moving from traditional linear and print-heavy approaches to a more dynamic digital-first strategy, we can deliver the right message to the right person in the right place at exactly the right time.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ข‹์€ ๋ฐ˜์‘์„ ์–ป์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์‹œ์ฆŒ ์ƒํ’ˆ์ด ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ฐ ์—ฐ์ค‘ ์ตœ๊ณ  ์‹ค์  ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์€ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์—… ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•˜๋Š” ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ ํ•œ ํ•ด ๋™์•ˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ์žˆ์–ด ๋Œ€๋Œ€์ ์ธ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์˜ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์ด ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์œผ๋กœ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋™ํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ „๋žต๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ์„ ํ˜• ๋ฐ ์ธ์‡„ ์ค‘์‹ฌ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์—์„œ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์—ญ๋™์ ์ธ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์šฐ์„  ์ „๋žต์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์—๊ฒŒ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์žฅ์†Œ์—์„œ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์‹œ์ ์— ์ „๋‹ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
A recent comprehensive review of our media mix model indicated a significant opportunity to further reallocate print spend to digital media. Acting on this data, we put a test in place and our strategic reallocation is already proving out. October was our strongest month of the quarter at a time when we meaningfully reduced our print campaign. This allowed us to leverage our media spend while driving sales above plan in the quarter. More importantly, this is in pursuit of a smarter, more targeted, more modern marketing ecosystem. To support the growth of our business, we continue to invest in our supply chain.์ตœ๊ทผ ์‹ค์‹œํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ๋ฏน์Šค ๋ชจ๋ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ข…ํ•ฉ์ ์ธ ๊ฒ€ํ†  ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ์ธ์‡„ ๋งค์ฒด ์ง€์ถœ์„ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด๋กœ ์žฌ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ „๋žต์  ์žฌ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„์€ ์ด๋ฏธ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ž…์ฆํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 10์›”์€ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ค‘ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•œ ๋‹ฌ์ด์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ธ์‡„ ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ์„ ์˜๋ฏธ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์ถ•์†Œํ•œ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ์ง€์ถœ์„ ํšจ์œจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€, ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ณด๋‹ค ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํ•˜๊ณ , ํƒ€๊ฒŸํŒ…์ด ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํ˜„๋Œ€์ ์ธ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์ƒํƒœ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์—… ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž๋„ ์ง€์†ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Over the next year, we plan to expand our Texas distribution center by 150,000 square feet and increase our service capacity by approximately 50 stores to 800. Next on the list is the expansion of our Illinois distribution center, which will start late next year. Our supply chain investments have driven throughput, leverage costs and expanded our capacity to buy any deal, anytime, anywhere as we continue on our path of contiguous growth. I would like to thank all of our dedicated and hard-working associates. Deep discount retail is not an easy business, and it requires continuous coordination and relentless execution.ํ–ฅํ›„ 1๋…„๊ฐ„ ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ๋ฅผ 150,000 ํ‰๋ฐฉํ”ผํŠธ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๊ณ , ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์•ฝ 50๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ ๋Š˜๋ ค ์ด 800๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ฆ๋Œ€ํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์Œ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ผ๋ฆฌ๋…ธ์ด ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ ํ™•์žฅ์ด ์˜ˆ์ •๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋‚ด๋…„ ๋ง์— ์ฐฉ์ˆ˜ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์ฆ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋น„์šฉ์„ ํšจ์œจํ™”ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ธ์ ‘ ์ง€์—ญ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ „๋žต์„ ์ง€์†ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์–ธ์ œ ์–ด๋””์„œ๋“  ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ๋งค์ž…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ—Œ์‹ ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๊ทผ๋ฉดํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ž„์ง์› ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋””์Šค์นด์šดํŠธ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ ์‚ฌ์—…์€ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ์‰ฌ์šด ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉฐ, ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์กฐ์œจ๊ณผ ๋Š์ž„์—†๋Š” ์‹คํ–‰๋ ฅ์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We came into this year with a very unique opportunity to accelerate our growth and capture abandoned market share from the store closures and distressed retailers. Our team was ready for the challenge and stepped up all year long. I want to wish everyone happy holidays and hope that all of our team members are able to enjoy time with friends and family. Now let me turn the call over to Rob. Robert Helm
Executive VP & CFO

Thanks, Eric, and good morning, everyone. We are very pleased with our third quarter results and the momentum in our business. New store openings, new store performance, sales and earnings were all ahead of our expectations for the quarter.
์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ดˆ ๋งค์žฅ ํ์‡„์™€ ์–ด๋ ค์›€์„ ๊ฒช๋Š” ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฒ„๋ ค์ง„ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋งž์ดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํŒ€์€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋„์ „์— ๋Œ€๋น„๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ  ์ผ๋…„ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ์ตœ์„ ์„ ๋‹คํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์šด ์—ฐํœด ๋ณด๋‚ด์‹œ๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ฉฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํŒ€์› ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์นœ๊ตฌ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ Rob์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Robert Helm
์žฌ๋ฌด๋‹ด๋‹น ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ CFO

Eric, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„ ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ๊ณผ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์— ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ๊ฐœ์ , ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ์‹ค์ , ๋งค์ถœ ๋ฐ ์ˆ˜์ต ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์˜ˆ์ƒ์„ ์ƒํšŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
With the better-than-expected results and a very good start to the fourth quarter, we're raising our full year sales and earnings outlook. Accelerating new unit growth and expanding the Ollie's Army loyalty program are 2 big priorities this year. We are delivering on both of these initiatives. We opened 32 new stores in the third quarter and ended the period with a total of 645 stores, an increase of more than 18% year-over-year. Ollie's Army members increased 12% to 16.6 million members strong, driven by new customer acquisition. With the consumer buying closer to need and prioritizing necessity over discretionary items, this has driven strength in consumer staples.์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋‚˜์€ ์‹ค์ ๊ณผ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์˜ ๋งค์šฐ ์ข‹์€ ์ถœ๋ฐœ๋กœ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๋งค์ถœ ๋ฐ ์ˆ˜์ต ์ „๋ง์„ ์ƒํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ •ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”์™€ Ollie's Army ๋กœ์—ดํ‹ฐ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ ํ™•๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ์˜ฌํ•ด์˜ ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ฃผ์š” ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ด ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— 32๊ฐœ์˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ์˜คํ”ˆํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์ด 645๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 18% ์ด์ƒ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Ollie's Army ํšŒ์› ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ํ™•๋ณด์— ํž˜์ž…์–ด 12% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ 1,660๋งŒ ๋ช…์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์ด ํ•„์š”์— ๊ฐ€๊น๊ฒŒ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ  ์žฌ๋Ÿ‰์  ํ’ˆ๋ชฉ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ•„์ˆ˜ํ’ˆ์„ ์šฐ์„ ์‹œํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ์ด๋Š” ์ƒํ•„ํ’ˆ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Our flexible buying model has allowed us to feed this trend, which has been very well received by customers. We have also taken advantage of a number of closeout deals that have fueled positive trends in customer acquisition, transactions and unit volumes. We intentionally pursued these deals to drive customer growth and engagement even as they put some pressure on average unit retail and basket size. Now let me run through our P&L numbers. Net sales increased 19% to $614 million, driven by new store openings and comparable store sales growth.์ €ํฌ์˜ ์œ ์—ฐํ•œ ๊ตฌ๋งค ๋ชจ๋ธ์€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ฃผ์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ๋ฐ˜์‘์„ ์–ป์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์žฌ๊ณ ์ •๋ฆฌ(closeout) ๋”œ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ํ™•๋ณด, ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ๊ฑด์ˆ˜ ๋ฐ ํŒ๋งค ์ˆ˜๋Ÿ‰์—์„œ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์ถ”์„ธ๋ฅผ ์ด๋Œ์–ด๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ‰๊ท  ๋‹จ์œ„ ์†Œ๋งค๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ(average unit retail)๊ณผ ์žฅ๋ฐ”๊ตฌ๋‹ˆ ๊ทœ๋ชจ(basket size)์— ๋‹ค์†Œ ์••๋ฐ•์„ ์ฃผ๋”๋ผ๋„ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๋„๋ฅผ ๋†’์ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์˜๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋”œ๋“ค์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์†์ต๊ณ„์‚ฐ์„œ(P&L) ์ˆ˜์น˜๋“ค์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์€ 19% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ 6์–ต 1,400๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ์˜คํ”ˆ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ(comparable store sales growth)์— ํž˜์ž…์€ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Comparable store sales increased 3.3%, driven by a mid-single-digit increase in transactions, which was partially offset by a decrease in average ticket price. Our top 5 performing categories were food, seasonal, hardware, stationery, and lawn and garden. Gross margin decreased 10 basis points to 41.3%. The slight decrease was better than our expectations and was driven by higher supply chain costs, primarily incremental tariff expenses, which were partially offset by higher merchandise margins.๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ์€ 3.3% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜๋Œ€์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ๊ฑด์ˆ˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์— ํž˜์ž…์€ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ, ํ‰๊ท  ๊ฐ๋‹จ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ์†Œ๋กœ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ƒ์‡„๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ์œ„ 5๊ฐœ ์‹ค์  ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์‹ํ’ˆ, ๊ณ„์ ˆ์ƒํ’ˆ, ์ฒ ๋ฌผ, ๋ฌธ๊ตฌ๋ฅ˜, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ž”๋”” ๋ฐ ์ •์›์šฉํ’ˆ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์€ 10bp ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ 41.3%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์†Œํญ ๊ฐ์†Œ๋Š” ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ์–‘ํ˜ธํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฃผ๋กœ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ด€์„ธ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ๋น„์šฉ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ์ƒํ’ˆ ๋งˆ์ง„ ๊ฐœ์„ ์œผ๋กœ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ƒ์‡„๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
SG&A expenses as a percent of net sales decreased 50 basis points to 29.4%, with the decrease primarily driven by lower professional fees, stock-based compensation and leverage from the continued optimization of our marketing ecosystem. Preopening expenses increased 3% to $7 million in the quarter, driven by new store growth and $1 million of dark rent expense associated with the former Big Lots locations that were acquired through the bankruptcy auction process. Moving down to the bottom line. Adjusted net income and adjusted earnings per share increased 29% to $46 million and $0.75, respectively, for the quarter.ํŒ๋งค๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„๋Š” ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ 29.4%๋กœ 50bp ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ฃผ๋กœ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ ๊ฐ์†Œ, ์ฃผ์‹๊ธฐ์ค€๋ณด์ƒ ๊ฐ์†Œ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์ƒํƒœ๊ณ„์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์ตœ์ ํ™”๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•œ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ ํšจ๊ณผ์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐœ์  ์ „ ๋น„์šฉ์€ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์™€ ํŒŒ์‚ฐ ๊ฒฝ๋งค ์ ˆ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ธ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ๊ตฌ Big Lots ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ 100๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์•”ํ‘์ž„๋Œ€๋ฃŒ(dark rent) ๋น„์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ค‘ 3% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ 700๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ์ข… ์‹ค์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด๋ ค๊ฐ€๋ฉด, ์กฐ์ • ์ˆœ์ด์ต๊ณผ ์กฐ์ • ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต์€ ๊ฐ๊ฐ 29% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ 4,600๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์™€ 0.75๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Lastly, adjusted EBITDA increased 22% to $73 million and adjusted EBITDA margin increased 30 basis points to 11.9% for the quarter. Turning to the balance sheet. Our total cash and investments increased by 42% to $432 million, and we had no meaningful long-term debt at the end of the quarter. Given the nature of our business, the strength of our balance sheet is a strategic asset. Our financial stability, the visibility of being a public company and our size and scale help distinguish us in the closeout and off-price space. As a result, we remain committed to a fortress type of balance sheet as it helps drive our business.๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ์กฐ์ • EBITDA๋Š” 22% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ 7,300๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์กฐ์ • EBITDA ๋งˆ์ง„์€ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ 30bp ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜์—ฌ 11.9%๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€์ฐจ๋Œ€์กฐํ‘œ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํ˜„๊ธˆ ๋ฐ ํˆฌ์ž์ž์‚ฐ์€ 42% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ 4์–ต 3,200๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ์žฅ๊ธฐ๋ถ€์ฑ„๋Š” ์—†์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ํŠน์„ฑ์ƒ, ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ƒํƒœํ‘œ๋Š” ์ „๋žต์  ์ž์‚ฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ, ์ƒ์žฅ๊ธฐ์—…์œผ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ๊ฐ€์‹œ์„ฑ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์™€ ์Šค์ผ€์ผ์€ ํด๋กœ์ฆˆ์•„์›ƒ ๋ฐ ์˜คํ”„ํ”„๋ผ์ด์Šค ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ์š”์†Œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์š”์ƒˆํ˜• ๋Œ€์ฐจ๋Œ€์กฐํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ณ„์† ์ „๋…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Inventories increased 16% year-over-year, primarily driven by our accelerating store growth and strong deal flow. Capital expenditures totaled $31 million for the quarter, with the majority of the spending going towards the opening of new stores, the build-out of the bankruptcy acquired stores and to a lesser degree, investments in both our supply chain and existing stores. We bought back $12 million worth of our common stock in the quarter and had $293 million remaining under our current share repurchase authorization at the end of the quarter. Lastly, let me run through our outlook for fiscal 2025. We're raising both our sales and earnings outlook for the full year.์žฌ๊ณ ๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 16% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ฃผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋˜๋Š” ๋งค์žฅ ํ™•์žฅ๊ณผ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ํ๋ฆ„์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ž๋ณธ์  ์ง€์ถœ์€ ์ด 3,100๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ง€์ถœ์˜ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ๊ฐœ์„ค, ํŒŒ์‚ฐ ์ธ์ˆ˜ ๋งค์žฅ์˜ ๊ตฌ์ถ•, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ƒ๋Œ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ ์€ ๋น„์ค‘์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์กด ๋งค์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž์— ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— 1,200๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๋งค์ž…ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค€ ํ˜„์žฌ ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž… ์Šน์ธ ํ•œ๋„ ์ค‘ 2์–ต 9,300๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ „๋ง์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๋งค์ถœ๊ณผ ์‹ค์  ์ „๋ง์„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ƒํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ •ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Our revised outlook flows through the upside in our third quarter results and mostly keeps our outlook for the fourth quarter in place. It also assumes the current tariffs remain in place for the balance of the year. Our updated guidance figures are contained in the table in our earnings release posted this morning and include 86 new store openings, net sales of $2.648 billion to $2.655 billion, comparable store sales growth of 3.2% to 3.5%. Gross margin in the range of 40.3%, operating income of $293 million to $298 million and adjusted net income and adjusted earnings per share of $236 million to $239 million and $3.81 to $3.87, respectively.์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ˆ˜์ •๋œ ์ „๋ง์€ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์˜ ์ƒ์Šน๋ถ„์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ „๋ง์€ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ๊ด€์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ ์œ ์ง€๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฐ€์ •์„ ์ „์ œ๋กœ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ์ˆ˜์น˜๋Š” ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์นจ ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๋œ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ์ž๋ฃŒ์˜ ํ‘œ์— ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ˆœ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ 86๊ฐœ ์˜คํ”ˆ, ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ 26์–ต 4,800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 26์–ต 5,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ, ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ  3.2%์—์„œ 3.5%, ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ  40.3% ๋ฒ”์œ„, ์˜์—…์ด์ต 2์–ต 9,300๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 2์–ต 9,800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ, ์กฐ์ • ์ˆœ์ด์ต๊ณผ ์กฐ์ • ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต์€ ๊ฐ๊ฐ 2์–ต 3,600๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 2์–ต 3,900๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  3.81๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 3.87๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
These estimates assume depreciation and amortization expenses of $55 million, inclusive of $15 million within cost of goods sold, preopening expenses of $25 million, which is slightly higher than the previous guidance with our pipeline for the first quarter now set. An annual effective tax rate of approximately 24%, which excludes the tax benefits related to stock-based compensation, diluted weighted average shares outstanding of approximately 62 million and capital expenditures of approximately $88 million, which includes the build-out of the former Big Lots locations and the initial expenses associated with the expansion of our DC in Texas.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ถ”์ •์น˜๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ์›๊ฐ€์— ํฌํ•จ๋œ 1,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์—ฌ 5,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๊ฐ๊ฐ€์ƒ๊ฐ๋น„๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ์ด ํ™•์ •๋จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ด์ „ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ณด๋‹ค ์†Œํญ ๋†’์€ 2,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๊ฐœ์  ์ „ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ์‹๊ธฐ์ค€๋ณด์ƒ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์„ธ๊ธˆ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ์ œ์™ธํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์œ ํšจ์„ธ์œจ์€ ์•ฝ 24%์ด๋ฉฐ, ํฌ์„ ๊ฐ€์ค‘ํ‰๊ท  ์œ ํ†ต์ฃผ์‹์ˆ˜๋Š” ์•ฝ 6,200๋งŒ ์ฃผ, ์ž๋ณธ์  ์ง€์ถœ์€ ์•ฝ 8,800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ด๋Š” ๊ตฌ Big Lots ๋งค์žฅ์˜ ์ธํ…Œ๋ฆฌ์–ด ๊ณต์‚ฌ์™€ ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ ํ™•์žฅ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ๊ธˆ์•ก์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Our fourth quarter comp outlook is now in the range of positive 2% to 3%. We will not be opening any additional stores in fiscal 2025, but our new openings in fiscal 2026 are set and will again be front-end weighted. Given the strength of our pipeline, we expect new store openings in 2026 to remain above our long-term growth algo, and we're targeting 75 new stores next year. In closing, let me thank my fellow team members for their work and dedication this year. We came into the year with unique opportunity to accelerate our growth and increase our market share.4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์ข…๋งค์žฅ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ  ์ „๋ง์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ์Šค 2%์—์„œ 3% ๋ฒ”์œ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์—๋Š” ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ๊ฐœ์ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ์˜ˆ์ •์ด์ง€๋งŒ, 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ฐœ์ ์€ ํ™•์ •๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์— ์ง‘์ค‘๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ์„ ๊ฐ์•ˆํ•  ๋•Œ, 2026๋…„ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ๊ฐœ์ ์€ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ƒํšŒํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋‚ด๋…„์— 75๊ฐœ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ๊ฐœ์ ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋์œผ๋กœ, ์˜ฌํ•ด ํ—Œ์‹ ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ผํ•ด์ค€ ๋™๋ฃŒ ํŒ€์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ํ•œ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This required a lot of coordination and effort across the organization, and I couldn't be more proud of how our teams have executed this year. With a strong assortment of both seasonal and everyday items, we feel good about our positioning heading into the holidays and are poised to finish the year strong. Happy holidays to all of our associates and team members around the country. Now let me turn the call back to Eric. Eric van der Valk
President, CEO & Director

Thanks, Rob. Looking ahead, we feel very good about our positioning. Customers are looking for value, manufacturer need ways to manage their supply chain and the retail sector is consolidating.
์ด๋Š” ์กฐ์ง ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋งŽ์€ ์กฐ์œจ๊ณผ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํŒ€๋“ค์ด ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ด๋ฅผ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋”ํ•  ๋‚˜์œ„ ์—†์ด ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์ฆŒ ์ƒํ’ˆ๊ณผ ์ผ์ƒ ์ƒํ’ˆ ๋ชจ๋‘์˜ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๊ณ , ์—ฐ๋ง์—ฐ์‹œ๋ฅผ ์•ž๋‘๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์˜ฌํ•ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•  ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๊ตญ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ง์›๊ณผ ํŒ€์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์šด ์—ฐํœด ๋ณด๋‚ด์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์—๋ฆญ์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—๋ฆญ ๋ฐ˜ ๋ฐ๋ฅด ๋ฐœํฌ
์‚ฌ์žฅ, CEO ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋กญ. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋‹ค๋ณผ ๋•Œ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์€ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ œ์กฐ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์€ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•  ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์†Œ๋งค ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์€ ํ†ตํ•ฉ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Ollie's benefits from these powerful secular trends, which are reflected in our fundamentals. Our customer base is expanding. Our deal flow has never been better. Our store growth is accelerating. Our price gaps are widening and our margins are expanding. We are delivering strong and consistent results. We are winning the hearts and minds of customers. And most importantly, we are... Operator, we are ready for questions.์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์  ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํŽ€๋”๋ฉ˜ํ„ธ์— ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์€ ํ™•๋Œ€๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋”œ ํ”Œ๋กœ์šฐ(๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ํ๋ฆ„)๋Š” ๊ทธ ์–ด๋А ๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋งค์žฅ ์„ฑ์žฅ์€ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋Š” ํ™•๋Œ€๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋งˆ์ง„์€ ํ™•์žฅ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์ผ๊ด€๋œ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ๊ณผ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์–ป๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€... ์˜คํผ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ๋‹˜, ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ ์š”์•ฝ

# Ollie's Bargain Outlet Q3 2026 ์‹ค์  ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ ์š”์•ฝ

## ์ฃผ์š” ๋‚ด์šฉ

โ€ข **๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ์ƒํ–ฅ**: 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ 19% ์ฆ๊ฐ€($614M), ๋™์ผ์ ํฌ๋งค์ถœ(comp) 3.3% ์„ฑ์žฅ, ์กฐ์ • EPS $0.75(์ „๋…„ๆฏ” 29% ์ฆ๊ฐ€). 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ดˆ๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ๊ณผ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ํ˜ธ์กฐ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ์ƒํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ • - ๋งค์ถœ $2.648B~$2.655B, ์กฐ์ • EPS $3.81~$3.87, comp 3.2%~3.5% ์ „๋ง.

โ€ข **๊ณต๊ฒฉ์  ์ ํฌ ํ™•์žฅ ๋ฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ**: 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ 32๊ฐœ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์ ํฌ ์˜คํ”ˆ(์—ฐ๊ฐ„ 86๊ฐœ, 18% ์„ฑ์žฅ)์œผ๋กœ ์—ญ๋Œ€ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ๊ธฐ๋ก ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ. 2026๋…„ 75๊ฐœ ์ ํฌ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„ํš์œผ๋กœ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๋ชฉํ‘œ(1,300๊ฐœ ์ ํฌ) ํ–ฅํ•ด ์—ฐ 10% ์ด์ƒ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ง€์†. Ollie's Army ๋กœ์—ดํ‹ฐ ํšŒ์› 12% ์ฆ๊ฐ€(16.6M), ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ฐ€์ž… 30% ๊ธ‰์ฆํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ํš๋“ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”.

โ€ข **์†Œ๋น„์žฌ ์ค‘์‹ฌ ์ „๋žต ๋ฐ ๋งˆ์ง„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ**: ์†Œ๋น„์ž์˜ ํ•„์ˆ˜ํ’ˆ ์„ ํ˜ธ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ์— ๋งž์ถฐ ์†Œ๋ชจํ’ˆ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ํ™•๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ๊ฑด์ˆ˜ ์ค‘๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ ํ•œ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ. ์ด๋งˆ์ง„ 41.3%๋กœ 10bp ์†Œํญ ๊ฐ์†Œ(๊ด€์„ธ ๋น„์šฉ ์ฆ๊ฐ€)ํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜ ์ƒํ’ˆ ๋งˆ์ง„ ๊ฐœ์„ ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ์‡„. SG&


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Operator: [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Chuck Grom from Gordon Haskett.**Operator:** 5000

[์šด์˜์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด] ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๊ณ ๋“  ํ•ด์Šค์ผ“์˜ ์ฒ™ ๊ทธ๋กฌ ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Charles Grom: Gordon Haskett Research Advisors I was hoping you could frame out the state of your consumer in light of your basket commentary. DG also spoke about some ticket compression during times of consumer duress recently and also historically. And then bigger picture, can you talk about your vendor relationships, both on the closeout front, but more importantly, the steps you're taking to drive deeper CPG relationships? Eric van der Valk President, CEO & Director Sure. Thanks, Chuck. Yes, I'll start with your -- the second part of your question. In terms of relationships, it's been a difficult environment for many traditional retailers with bankruptcy, store closures, disruptions from tariffs. Customers continue to seek value, and we continue to grow our share of the order book of many vendors kind of regardless of the space that they're in. In CPG has certainly been a big component of that. Our food business is an indication of the strength of not only the customer looking for value in products they need, but also a deal flow that has been particularly strong in large part as a result of abandoned product or order book -- space in CPG order books that used to be sold to some of these companies that are no longer around or have consolidated. So that has been very good for us. It's helped us to open up new relationships as well. You would think at our size and scale that we know everyone, and that's really not true. We still have opportunities to work more directly with various vendors even in the CPG space, and we've been able to open up some new relationships over the past year that have been very meaningful for us, and it's meeting that customer need to buy to get extreme value in product that they need. In terms of the state of the consumer, we're seeing that the strength -- we're seeing strength in the higher income consumer above $100,000 in household income. Strength in upper middle, it's $65,000 and above. It's solid lower middle, and we've seen a little bit of -- I don't know if it's trade out or a little bit of softness in the lower income consumer, which we could potentially attribute to the government shutdown and some of the disruption that happened as a result of that. But we're seeing on the whole that the strength of the upper middle and upper income consumer more than offsets a little bit of the weakness with that lower income consumer and that low middle has been hanging in there. And as we indicated, we've been able to attract a lot more customers and convert them in the loyalty program as well, and we think in part driven by deal flow in CPG product.**Charles Grom:** ๋„ค, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์งˆ๋ฌธ์˜ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ด€๊ณ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ํŒŒ์‚ฐ, ๋งค์žฅ ํ์‡„, ๊ด€์„ธ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ํ˜ผ๋ž€ ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŽ์€ ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์ด ์ง€์†๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์€ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—…์ข…์— ๊ด€๊ณ„์—†์ด ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฒค๋”๋“ค์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰์—์„œ ์ ์œ ์œจ์„ ๊ณ„์† ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. CPG๊ฐ€ ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ํฐ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ์‹ํ’ˆ ์‚ฌ์—…์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ํŠนํžˆ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ์ง€ํ‘œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹น ๋ถ€๋ถ„ ๋” ์ด์ƒ ์กด์žฌํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ†ตํ•ฉ๋œ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์— ํŒ๋งค๋˜๋˜ CPG ์ฃผ๋ฌธ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰์˜ ์œ ํœด ์ œํ’ˆ์ด๋‚˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์—์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งค์šฐ ์ข‹์€ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ๋„ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ ์š”. ์ €ํฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ผ๋ฉด ๋ชจ๋“  ์—…์ฒด๋ฅผ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์ง€๋งŒ, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ CPG ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ๋„ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฒค๋”๋“ค๊ณผ ๋” ์ง์ ‘์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ง€๋‚œ ํ•œ ํ•ด ๋™์•ˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งค์šฐ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ด€๊ณ„๋“ค์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ๊ทน๋„๋กœ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹ˆ์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ์ถฉ์กฑ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์ƒํ™ฉ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ๋Š”, ๊ฐ€๊ตฌ ์†Œ๋“ 10๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๊ณ ์†Œ๋“ ์†Œ๋น„์ž์ธต์—์„œ ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 6๋งŒ 5์ฒœ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์ค‘์ƒ์œ„์ธต๋„ ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ ์š”. ์ค‘ํ•˜์œ„์ธต์€ ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ•œ ํŽธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ์ €์†Œ๋“ ์†Œ๋น„์ž์ธต์—์„œ๋Š” ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ดํƒˆ์ด๋‚˜ ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋ถ€์ง„ํ•œ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ •๋ถ€ ์…ง๋‹ค์šด๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ํ˜ผ๋ž€์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ •๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ค‘์ƒ์œ„์ธต๊ณผ ๊ณ ์†Œ๋“์ธต ์†Œ๋น„์ž์˜ ๊ฐ•์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์ €์†Œ๋“์ธต ์†Œ๋น„์ž์˜ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ์•ฝ์„ธ๋ฅผ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์ƒ์‡„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ค‘ํ•˜์œ„์ธต์€ ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ•œ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์„ ์œ ์น˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋กœ์—ดํ‹ฐ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ ์œผ๋กœ CPG(์†Œ๋น„์žฌ) ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜ ํšจ๊ณผ์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ํŒ๋‹จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Matthew Boss from JPMorgan.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ JP๋ชจ๊ฑด์˜ ๋งคํŠœ ๋ณด์Šค๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Matthew Boss: JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division So could you elaborate on the components of the third quarter comp, particularly the growth in transactions maybe relative to the second quarter versus drivers of the basket decline? And just how this fits into your customer acquisition strategy? And separately, could you speak to the cadence of monthly comps that you saw in the third quarter and just help define the strong start that you cited in the fourth quarter, maybe notably trends that you saw before and after Black Friday weekend?**Matthew Boss:** 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ (comp)์˜ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ ์š”์†Œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ํŠนํžˆ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ๊ฑด์ˆ˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์™€ ๊ฐ๋‹จ๊ฐ€(basket) ๊ฐ์†Œ ์š”์ธ์€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š”์ง€์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ณ ๊ฐ ํ™•๋ณด ์ „๋žต๊ณผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ถ€ํ•ฉํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ณ„๋„๋กœ, 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ์˜ ์›”๋ณ„ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ  ์ถ”์ด์™€ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์ถœ๋ฐœ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์‹  ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ข€ ๋” ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ํŠนํžˆ ๋ธ”๋ž™ํ”„๋ผ์ด๋ฐ์ด ์ฃผ๋ง ์ „ํ›„๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚œ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋• ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Robert Helm: Executive VP & CFO Matt, I'll chime in on the first part, and then Eric will take the second part about the customer acquisition. We were very pleased with our comp in the third quarter. The positive 3.3% is above our guidance of the positive 3% for the entire quarter. We saw a mid-single-digit positive transaction trend, which is actually an acceleration off of Q2 when you normalize it for the incremental Ollie's Army Night Event that we added during that quarter. Basket was the piece that was down. That was down low single digits, and that was driven by a decline in AUR that was in the high single digits. From a cadence perspective, we were pleased with the flow of the quarter. We saw a little bit of slowdown midway through the quarter. It was at a time when unseasonably warm weather and the initial government shutdown took place. So I'm not sure how much is attributable to either component. But we saw momentum return in October when the weather changed. We exited the quarter with very strong momentum. That momentum has carried into November. Quarter-to-date trends are currently running ahead of our guidance. And that AUR that was a high single-digit decline is now a positive low single-digit increase to our AUR. So all in all, between the assortment and where we're running from a momentum perspective, we feel very confident to deliver our guidance in the fourth quarter and deliver the year. Eric van der Valk President, CEO & Director Matt, I'll just add a little bit of color on AUR. We really don't overtly manage AUR at Ollie's. We manage price gaps. We saw an opportunity in Q3, and it speaks a little bit to Chuck's question about CPG and strength in CPG. We saw an opportunity to invest in price, especially in consumables. We also had opportunities to buy some very compelling low AUR deals in craft and seasonal in a couple of other categories. And we took the opportunity to invest in lower AUR deals that we believe customers would respond very favorably to, and they did, and that really drove our traffic over the course of Q3. It also made us a lot of friends and it helps us to win hearts and minds and helps us to win loyal customers that will be customers for life. So we like this investment in price. We like this investment in low AUR. We're in this for the long haul in terms of customer acquisition and retention, and we were very happy with the outcome.**Robert Helm:** 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์— ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3.3%์˜ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์€ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ „์ฒด ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค์ธ 3%๋ฅผ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ๊ฑด์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค ์•„๋ฏธ ๋‚˜์ดํŠธ ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ(Ollie's Army Night Event)๋ฅผ ์ •๊ทœํ™”ํ•ด์„œ ๋น„๊ตํ•˜๋ฉด ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฅ๋ฐ”๊ตฌ๋‹ˆ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ฎ์€ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ๊ฐ์†Œ์˜€๊ณ , ์ด๋Š” ํ‰๊ท  ๋‹จ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋†’์€ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฝํ•œ ๋ฐ ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ํ๋ฆ„ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š” ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ค‘๋ฐ˜์— ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋‘”ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฉด ์—๋ฆญ์ด ๊ณ ๊ฐ ํ™•๋ณด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ„์ ˆ์— ๋งž์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋‚ ์”จ์™€ ์ •๋ถ€ ์…ง๋‹ค์šด์ด ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ–ˆ๋˜ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์˜ ์š”์ธ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์ณค๋Š”์ง€๋Š” ํ™•์‹คํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ 10์›”์— ๋‚ ์”จ๊ฐ€ ๋ณ€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์ด ๋Œ์•„์˜ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์œผ๋กœ ๋งˆ๊ฐํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ด ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์€ 11์›”๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ˆ„๊ณ„ ์ถ”์ด๋Š” ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ํ›„๋ฐ˜ ๊ฐ์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€๋˜ ํ‰๊ท ํŒ๋งค๋‹จ๊ฐ€(AUR)๋Š” ์ด์ œ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข…ํ•ฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณผ ๋•Œ, ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰๊ณผ ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ํ™•์‹ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋งคํŠธ, ํ‰๊ท ํŒ๋งค๋‹จ๊ฐ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ์„ค๋ช…์„ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” Ollie's์—์„œ ํ‰๊ท  ๋‹จ๊ฐ€(AUR)๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜์ฃ . 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” Chuck์ด ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•œ CPG์™€ CPG ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ ๊ฐ•์„ธ์™€๋„ ๊ด€๋ จ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์†Œ๋ชจํ’ˆ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํˆฌ์ž ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ํฌ์ฐฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ณต์˜ˆํ’ˆ๊ณผ ๊ณ„์ ˆ ์ƒํ’ˆ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ช‡๋ช‡ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๋งค์šฐ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์ €๋‹จ๊ฐ€ ๋”œ์„ ๋งค์ž…ํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ํŒ๋‹จํ•œ ์ €๋‹จ๊ฐ€ ๋”œ์— ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์„ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•œ ์›๋™๋ ฅ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋˜ํ•œ ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋งŽ์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค๊ณผ ์šฐํ˜ธ์  ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ˜•์„ฑํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์‚ฌ๋กœ์žก๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ‰์ƒ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ด ๋  ์ถฉ์„ฑ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ๋„ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํˆฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋‹จ๊ฐ€ ํˆฌ์ž ์ „๋žต์ด ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ ํ™•๋ณด์™€ ์œ ์ง€ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ด€์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Steven Zaccone from Citi.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ์”จํ‹ฐ์˜ ์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธ ์ž์ฝ”๋‹ˆ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Steven Zaccone: Citigroup Inc., Research Division I wanted to follow up there. The customer acquisition trends, can you talk about the growth you're seeing with new customers and then overall customer retention? And then as it relates to the Ollie's Army Night in December, how is your planning for that event changed at all based on the learnings from adding an additional night in June this year? Eric van der Valk President, CEO & Director Sure. Thanks, Steve. In terms of customer acquisition, very happy, one of the strongest from an acquisition standpoint, we've ever experienced as a company. Our retention is also very good. Customer reactivations are also strong. So we're hitting on all cylinders in terms of Ollie's Army. Acquisition remains a key focus. It's product, newness, brands, new brands, great pricing, the investing in price that we've done. It improved store experience. The digital marketing, we believe, also is helping to drive a new customer into our stores. We're seeing -- in terms of the makeup of new customers that were acquired to the Army, we're seeing a younger customer. Our strongest cohort was 18 to 34 years old, which was -- which really blew us away because typically, it's more in the mid-30s to mid-40s. That was our second strongest cohort from an acquisition standpoint, was 35 to 44. And then from an income standpoint, I commented a little bit when Matt asked his question, but upper middle and higher income were the strongest in terms of acquisition of the Army. In terms of Ollie's Army Night, I kind of made the comment on the call about our learning from the summer event. We had such an enthusiastic response from customers about the earlier start time of the event. If you remember, we started -- we started the event at 5:00 p.m. So we made an adjustment, given the time of the year and the weather in a lot of places to start this event at 4:00 p.m. The event is actually 1 hour longer runs until 9:00. Many of the customers that commented favorably about the earlier start time in June were older customers, are the kind of customers like the dinner at 5:30 and watch Jeopardy at 7:00. That's a shout out to my 84-year-old dad because that's him, but he -- that's the customer that appreciates the earlier start time. In terms of how we're thinking about it, we're not actually thinking about the outcome any differently. Currently, it's all accounted for in our guidance. And so we're not banking on any significant incremental contribution from the day itself.**Steven Zaccone:** ๊ณ ๊ฐ ํ™•๋ณด ์ถ”์„ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์„ธ์™€ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์œ ์ง€์œจ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฝ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ํ™•๋ณด ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์œ ์ง€์œจ๋„ ๋งค์šฐ ์–‘ํ˜ธํ•˜๊ณ , ์žฌํ™œ์„ฑํ™”๋œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ˆ˜๋„ ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ•œ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค ์•„๋ฏธ(Ollie's Army) ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์ข‹์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์…ˆ์ด์ฃ .

12์›” ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค ์•„๋ฏธ ๋‚˜์ดํŠธ ํ–‰์‚ฌ ๊ณ„ํš๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ๋Š”, ์˜ฌํ•ด 6์›”์— ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์–ป์€ ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ํ™•๋ณด๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ณผ์ œ๋กœ ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œํ’ˆ, ์‹ ์ œํ’ˆ, ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ, ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ, ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ •์ฑ…, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•ด์˜จ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํˆฌ์ž์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ๋งค์žฅ ๊ฒฝํ—˜๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ ์š”. ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์—ญ์‹œ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์„ ๋งค์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ์ž…์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ Army์— ์ƒˆ๋กœ ์œ ์ž…๋œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋” ์ Š์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ธต์ด ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์ฝ”ํ˜ธํŠธ๋Š” 18์„ธ์—์„œ 34์„ธ์˜€๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๊ฑด ์ •๋ง ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋†€๋ผ๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณดํ†ต์€ 30๋Œ€ ์ค‘๋ฐ˜์—์„œ 40๋Œ€ ์ค‘๋ฐ˜์ด ๋” ๋งŽ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ํš๋“ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋กœ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์ฝ”ํ˜ธํŠธ๋Š” 35์„ธ์—์„œ 44์„ธ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์†Œ๋“ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š”, ๋งคํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์งˆ๋ฌธํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ์ค‘์ƒ์œ„ ์†Œ๋“์ธต๊ณผ ๊ณ ์†Œ๋“์ธต์ด Army ํš๋“์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค ์•„๋ฏธ ๋‚˜์ดํŠธ(Ollie's Army Night)์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ, ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐฐ์šด ์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ ์‹œ์ž‘ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์•ž๋‹น๊ธด ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ •๋ง ์—ด๊ด‘์ ์ธ ๋ฐ˜์‘์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ๋ฅผ ์˜คํ›„ 5์‹œ์— ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์—ˆ์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ๊ณ„์ ˆ๊ณผ ๋งŽ์€ ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ๋‚ ์”จ๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด์„œ ์˜คํ›„ 4์‹œ์— ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋„๋ก ์กฐ์ •ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ๋Š” 1์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋” ๊ธธ์–ด์ ธ์„œ 9์‹œ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ง„ํ–‰๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 6์›”์— ์กฐ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ˜ธ์˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹  ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค ์ค‘ ์ƒ๋‹น์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ์‹  ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, 5์‹œ ๋ฐ˜์— ์ €๋… ๋“œ์‹œ๊ณ  7์‹œ์— ์ œํผ๋””(Jeopardy) ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ธต์ด์‹œ์ฃ . ์ œ 84์„ธ ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๊ป˜ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ธ์‚ฌ์ธ๋ฐ, ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋ถ„์ด์‹œ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ์กฐ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค์— ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ํ•ด๋‹น ๋‚ ์งœ ์ž์ฒด๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Brad Thomas from KeyBanc Capital Markets.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ KeyBanc Capital Markets์˜ Brad Thomas๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Bradley Thomas: KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., Research Division You did a nice job here of driving leverage even with such a large increase in stores here this quarter. I was hoping you could talk a little bit more about some of the levers that you're pulling in SG&A and perhaps an early look at how to think about that into next year.**Bradley Thomas:** ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋งค์žฅ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ž˜ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒ๋งค๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„(SG&A)์—์„œ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹  ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ , ๋‚ด๋…„ ์ „๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๊ฒฌํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋“ค๋ ค์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
Robert Helm: Executive VP & CFO Sure. I'll take that question. It's Rob. We have an incredible white space opportunity ahead. We have a predictable, portable and profitable model that's unlike anything else in the marketplace. The model itself generates an incredible amount of free cash flow, and its unique operating model that can be scaled over time. Our focus is really positioning the business not for next year, but for the next 5 to 10 years to deliver consistent sales and earnings growth over time. But to your point, we're also focused on delivering near-term results. Thinking ahead to 2026, we anticipate benefiting from the full year annualization of the step change in the new stores that we opened. We expect to benefit from a favorable real estate environment, setting up another year of strong and elevated growth. Our new store openings being front-loaded for next year is also a positive. And we also should have the roll-off of the dark rent that we incurred for the Big Lots locations that we acquired. At the same time, we're going to continue to reinvest in the business to support growth and do face some cost pressures like medical, which are still remain at elevated levels. But what that means for earnings in 2026 is we will be able to leverage this business, leverage the SG&A, assuming no radical changes in the environment and drive double-digit top line growth with mid-teens bottom line growth. Eric van der Valk President, CEO & Director Maybe I could just comment on the marketing aspect of it because that was a highlight from Q3. As we move forward, I commented in the script a bit that the business has so much potential digital has the ability to reshape how we reach and engage with our customers. And we've been on a multiyear path now to transform our marketing to be much more digital first, applying data analytics to ensure we get the right return out of our marketing spend, especially in the digital space. We did learn that there is a significant opportunity to reallocate print dollars into digital. It was a [indiscernible] in Q3 on a go-forward basis to the point of your question, Brad, how do we look at this in future years? It's more of a reallocation of print into digital. The reallocation in Q3 specifically was cutting postcards from nonresponders. So those are solo mail delivered postcards, and we virtually saw no impact. October was the best performing month, and that's the month in which we cut the postcards. So longer term, we're looking at continuing that transformation, accelerating the movement out of print and linear media into digital, which should be great for driving top line. We don't look at it as necessarily an SG&A opportunity.**Robert Helm:** ๋„ค, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ๋ฏธ๊ฐœ์ฒ™ ์‹œ์žฅ ๊ธฐํšŒ(white space opportunity)๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ์ธก ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ณ , ํ™•์žฅ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์–ด๋–ค ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ๋„ ๋น„๊ตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ชจ๋ธ ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํ™•์žฅ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ์šด์˜ ๋ชจ๋ธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ดˆ์ ์€ ๋‚ด๋…„์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ํ–ฅํ›„ 5๋…„์—์„œ 10๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๋งค์ถœ๊ณผ ์ˆ˜์ต ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋Œ€๋กœ, ๋‹จ๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ์—๋„ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026๋…„์„ ๋‚ด๋‹ค๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์˜คํ”ˆํ•œ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค์˜ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์‹ค์  ์ „์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ํฐ ํญ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ˆ„๋ฆด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์˜ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ๋ฐ›์œผ๋ฉด์„œ ๋˜ ํ•œ ํ•ด ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ๋†’์€ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ด์–ด๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๋…„ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ์˜คํ”ˆ์ด ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์— ์ง‘์ค‘๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ๋„ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ Big Lots ๋งค์žฅ ์ธ์ˆ˜๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ณต์‹ค ์ž„๋Œ€๋ฃŒ(dark rent) ๋ถ€๋‹ด๋„ ํ•ด์†Œ๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์‹œ์— ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์‚ฌ์—…์— ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์žฌํˆฌ์žํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜๋ฃŒ๋น„์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋น„์šฉ ์••๋ฐ•์—๋„ ์ง๋ฉดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ 2026๋…„ ์‹ค์  ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์— ๊ธ‰๊ฒฉํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฐ€์ • ํ•˜์— ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ํŒ๋งค๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„(SG&A)๋ฅผ ํšจ์œจํ™”ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ 10%๋Œ€ ์ค‘๋ฐ˜์˜ ์ˆœ์ด์ต ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์ธก๋ฉด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์˜ ํ•˜์ด๋ผ์ดํŠธ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœํ‘œ์—์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด ์ด ์‚ฌ์—…์€ ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ๋„๋‹ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์žฌํŽธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์„ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์šฐ์„ ์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•ด์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํŠนํžˆ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์˜์—ญ์—์„œ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์ง€์ถœ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ถ„์„์„ ์ ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐฐ์šด ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ธ์‡„ ๋งค์ฒด ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ์„ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ๋กœ ์žฌ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ด๋ฅผ ์‹คํ–‰ํ–ˆ๊ณ , Brad๋‹˜์˜ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ด๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณผ ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š”, ์ธ์‡„ ๋งค์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ๋กœ ์žฌ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์˜ ์žฌ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„์€ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌด๋ฐ˜์‘ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ์†กํ•˜๋Š” ์—ฝ์„œ๋ฅผ ์ค„์ธ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹จ๋… ์šฐํŽธ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌ๋˜๋Š” ์—ฝ์„œ์˜€๋Š”๋ฐ, ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ์—†์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 10์›”์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ข‹์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ธ ๋‹ฌ์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ ๋‹ฌ์— ์—ฝ์„œ๋ฅผ ์ค„์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ „ํ™˜์„ ์ง€์†ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ธ์‡„ ๋ฐ ์ „ํ†ต ๋งค์ฒด์—์„œ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ๋กœ์˜ ์ „ํ™˜์„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ํฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํŒ๋งค๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„(SG&A) ์ ˆ๊ฐ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Sarah Morin from Piper Sandler.**Operator:** 200000

๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Piper Sandler์˜ Sarah Morin์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Sarah Morin: Piper Sandler & Co., Research Division This is Sarah on for Peter. What kind of opportunities do you see to improve sales productivity? And then how are you thinking about ability to optimize category mix? And then as you do lean more into consumables, I'm wondering what does this imply for the longer-term gross margin? Is 40% still kind of that right target? Eric van der Valk President, CEO & Director Sure, Sarah. I'll take the first part of your question. Rob will take the consumable mix impact to gross margin. Closeouts are the lifeblood of our business, and we still look at it as the most important way in which we demonstrate and deliver value to our customer. As we continue to grow, though, we're seeing opportunities to leverage our size and scale to more overtly steer our category mix, whether that's steering our closeout mix into new brands, new vendors, new categories or emphasizing categories, we're much more in the driver seat than we've been in the past. Given the sheer amount of product that's being presented to us on an ongoing basis, given our size and scale, the most challenging decisions we have to make is what not to buy, and that's becoming more and more challenging as we continue to move forward. A good example of this in Q3 is that we were able to drive consumer staples, including our food category to a new level, which we'll get to your question about impact on gross margin, we're seeing that we are one of the few buyers out there of substance in that business, the closeout excess inventory space for CPG. Seasonal was the other example where we were -- we steered our category mix to have much more emphasis on seasonal. So we're going to continue steering as we move into future years and maximizing our sales productivity as we go forward.**Sarah Morin:** ๋„ค, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์˜ ์ฒซ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , Rob์ด ์†Œ๋ชจํ’ˆ ๋ฏน์Šค๊ฐ€ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํด๋กœ์ฆˆ์•„์›ƒ(closeouts)์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์ƒ๋ช…์„ ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ž…์ฆํ•˜๊ณ  ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„์† ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ๋ฏน์Šค๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์กฐ์ •ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋“ค์ด ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฌ๊ณ ์ •๋ฆฌ ์ƒํ’ˆ ๋ฏน์Šค๋ฅผ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฒค๋”, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๋“ , ํŠน์ • ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๋“ , ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์— ๋น„ํ•ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ์ฃผ๋„์ ์ธ ์œ„์น˜์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์•ˆํ•  ๋•Œ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ œ์•ˆ๋ฐ›๋Š” ์ƒํ’ˆ์˜ ์–‘์ด ์—„์ฒญ๋‚˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฒฐ์ •์€ ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์‚ฌ์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒฐ์ •์€ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐˆ์ˆ˜๋ก ์ ์  ๋” ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์˜ ์ข‹์€ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์‹ํ’ˆ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์ƒํ•„ํ’ˆ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์„ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, CPG ์žฌ๊ณ ์ •๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ ์ดˆ๊ณผ์žฌ๊ณ  ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์ธ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ๋ช‡ ์•ˆ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์ฆŒ ์ƒํ’ˆ๋„ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋ก€์ธ๋ฐ, ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ๋ฏน์Šค๋ฅผ ์กฐ์ •ํ•ด์„œ ์‹œ์ฆŒ ์ƒํ’ˆ ๋น„์ค‘์„ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๋†’์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ •์„ ์ง€์†ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋งค์ถœ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์„ ๊ทน๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Robert Helm: Executive VP & CFO So let me touch on the gross margin for a moment. Our guidance of 40.3% is above our long-term algo of 40%. We have quite a number of tailwinds within gross margin this year. The first one to speak to is really our size and scale in the closeout environment, which has been quite good. Markdowns and shrink has also been lower, and that's been offset to some degree by higher supply chain costs and tariff expenses. We have -- we're not giving guidance for 2026 today, and that's something we'll give in a couple of months. But what I would say broadly about gross margin is we manage this business, as Eric said, to price gaps to the fancy stores. Our price gaps have extended at a time that we've also expanded margins. So that feels quite good, but we do have a flexible buying model where if we can't be the lowest price in the market and we can't have that wide of a price gap, we simply won't buy the item, and we'll move on to the next item.**Robert Helm:** ์ด๋งˆ์ง„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค์ธ 40.3%๋Š” ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์น˜์ธ 40%๋ฅผ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ค€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ด๋งˆ์ง„์—๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๋งŽ์€ ๊ธ์ •์  ์š”์ธ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒƒ์€ ํด๋กœ์ฆˆ์•„์›ƒ(closeout) ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ์˜ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์™€ ์Šค์ผ€์ผ์ธ๋ฐ, ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์ข‹์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆํฌ๋‹ค์šด(markdowns)๊ณผ ์žฌ๊ณ  ์†์‹ค(shrink)๋„ ๋‚ฎ์•˜๊ณ , ์ด๋Š” ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ๋†’์•„์ง„ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ๊ด€์„ธ ๋น„์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ์‡„๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2026๋…„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋Š” ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ช‡ ๋‹ฌ ํ›„์— ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ์ด๋งˆ์ง„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์—๋ฆญ์ด ๋งํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋Š” ํ™•๋Œ€๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋™์‹œ์— ๋งˆ์ง„๋„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ๊ฝค ์ข‹๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๋ผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์œ ์—ฐํ•œ ๊ตฌ๋งค ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŒ์•ฝ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์ตœ์ €๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๊ณ  ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ํ•ด๋‹น ํ’ˆ๋ชฉ์„ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๋‹ค์Œ ํ’ˆ๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Lorraine Hutchinson from Bank of America.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๋ฑ…ํฌ์˜ค๋ธŒ์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นด์˜ ๋กœ๋ ˆ์ธ ํ—ˆ์นœ์Šจ ์• ๋„๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Mary Smart: This is [ Mary Smart ] on for Lorraine. Could you talk a little bit about what you're seeing from your new stores? Are they still performing ahead of expectations, particularly those in bankruptcy locations? And then also, you talked a little bit in the past about making changes to more of a soft opening versus a grand opening, especially for the new stores in bankruptcy locations. Is there any update on how the soft openings are going? And is that a strategy that you expect to continue to employ moving forward?**Mary Smart:** ๋กœ๋ ˆ์ธ ๋Œ€์‹  [๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธ]์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ์‹ค์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ํŠนํžˆ ํŒŒ์‚ฐ ๋งค์žฅ ์œ„์น˜์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์— ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ, ํŠนํžˆ ํŒŒ์‚ฐ ๋งค์žฅ ์œ„์น˜์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๊ทธ๋žœ๋“œ ์˜คํ”„๋‹๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ ์˜คํ”„๋‹ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์‹  ์ ์ด ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ ์˜คํ”„๋‹ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ์‹ ์ง€์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๊ณ„์† ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์‹ค ์ „๋žต์ธ์ง€ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Robert Helm: Executive VP & CFO Sure. This is Rob. I'll take this question. New store performance has been extremely strong. We've been essentially beat plan across 85% of the stores that we've opened this year. So we're very pleased with that. With respect to the "reverse waterfall" that we've had historically, we are now getting our first looks at the comping stores when we really started that exercise of soft opening versus grand opening with the 99 Cents Only Stores in the fall of 2024. So far, what we're seeing in results is that the reverse waterfall has flattened quite a bit. So the second year typically in our model was a comp decline, and we're seeing that second year for those 99 Cents Only Stores certainly being much flatter, which bodes for a flatter comp in years 3 and 4 as well.**Robert Helm:** ๋„ค, ์ €๋Š” Rob์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ์‹ค์ ์€ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ์˜คํ”ˆํ•œ ๋งค์žฅ์˜ 85%๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์ดˆ๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ญ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ ์›Œํ„ฐํด(reverse waterfall)๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ๋Š”, 2024๋…„ ๊ฐ€์„ 99 Cents Only ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋žœ๋“œ ์˜คํ”ˆ ๋Œ€์‹  ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ ์˜คํ”ˆ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ์ดํ›„ ๋™์ผ์ ํฌ๋งค์ถœ(comp)์„ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์—ญ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ ์›Œํ„ฐํด์ด ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ํ‰ํƒ„ํ•ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์กด ๋ชจ๋ธ์—์„œ๋Š” 2๋…„์ฐจ์— ๋™์ผ์ ํฌ๋งค์ถœ์ด ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ด์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, 99 Cents Only ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ 2๋…„์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ํ‰ํƒ„ํ•œ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” 3๋…„์ฐจ์™€ 4๋…„์ฐจ์—๋„ ๋” ํ‰ํƒ„ํ•œ ๋™์ผ์ ํฌ๋งค์ถœ์„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Scot Ciccarelli from Truist.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Truist์˜ Scot Ciccarelli๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Joshua Young: Truist Securities, Inc., Research Division This is Joshua on for Scot. So could you just give us an update on the performance you're seeing from your stores that are in a similar market to the now closed Big Lots locations? And then as we think about new stores and you've kind of accelerated the pace of openings here, has there been any operational stresses you've had to work through whether that might be supply chain or labor, anything to call out there?**Joshua Young:** Joshua๊ฐ€ Scot์„ ๋Œ€์‹ ํ•ด์„œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ํ์ ํ•œ Big Lots ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค๊ณผ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ์‹œ์žฅ์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ๊ท€์‚ฌ ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค์˜ ์‹ค์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ, ์ตœ๊ทผ ์ถœ์  ์†๋„๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ๋ฐ, ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง์ด๋‚˜ ์ธ๋ ฅ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์šด์˜์ƒ์˜ ์–ด๋ ค์›€์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€, ํŠน๋ณ„ํžˆ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์‹ค ์‚ฌํ•ญ์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹ ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Robert Helm: Executive VP & CFO Sure. I'll take the first part with Big Lots. I think Eric can take the second part with the operations. We're excited about the performance we're seeing where the Bigs have closed. These stores continue to outperform the rest of the chain. The best performers are roughly the, call it, 290 stores within 5 miles of a Big Lots closure where it has not reopened. Those stores remain to be running low single digit -- between low single-digit and mid-single-digit lift versus the rest of the chain. The, call it, 110 locations where Big Lots closed and then a variety of wholesalers reopened the stores, we're roughly seeing the same trends there and maybe a tick lower, but still better performance than the balance of the chain. Eric van der Valk President, CEO & Director Yes, Joshua, I'll take the second part of your question. I think dovetailing on to the first part of your question, the question asked earlier about soft openings and reverse waterfall that we went into this year not only investing in infrastructure, supply chain infrastructure, project management teams, real estate, store development, the construction teams, the store leadership teams to ensure that we could grow at this accelerated pace. But we also went into this year with the soft open approach, which takes some of the stress out of the process in that with the hard opening dates, you centered all of your efforts around hitting this one exact date, and it results in a lot of extraordinary. What we call it Ollie's muscle through it type moments where the teams get pushed to their limit and they become exhausted. We also paced our openings out over the course of the first 3 quarters so that we weren't opening too many stores in any given week, which allowed us to spread our resources out across the fleet. And it allowed us to successfully deliver the 86 stores. We're tired. It was a tremendous effort for the team. So I'm not indifferent to what it took to accomplish this, but we went in with a plan. We executed the plan and it worked out well, successful. We're ready to do it again for 2026.**Robert Helm:** ๋น…๋ž์ธ  ๊ด€๋ จ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ์šด์˜ ๊ด€๋ จ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ์—๋ฆญ์ด ๋‹ต๋ณ€ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น…๋ž์ธ ๊ฐ€ ํ์ ํ•œ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹ค์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด๋‹น ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค์€ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ์ฒด์ธ์ ๋“ค์„ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ข‹์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๊ณณ์€ ๋น…๋ž์ธ ๊ฐ€ ํ์ ํ–ˆ๊ณ  ์žฌ๊ฐœ์ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ณณ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 5๋งˆ์ผ ์ด๋‚ด์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ์•ฝ 290๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค ๋งค์žฅ์€ ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ์ฒด์ธ์  ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋‚ฎ์€ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜์—์„œ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๋งค์ถœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น…๋ž์ธ ๊ฐ€ ํ์ ํ•œ ํ›„ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋„๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์žฌ๊ฐœ์ ํ•œ ์•ฝ 110๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ๋Œ€๋žต ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์ถ”์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์•„๋งˆ๋„ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ๋‚ฎ์„ ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ „์ฒด ์ฒด์ธ์  ํ‰๊ท ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ๋‚˜์€ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„ค, Joshua, ์งˆ๋ฌธ์˜ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„๊ณผ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•ด์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์•ž์„œ ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ ์˜คํ”ˆ๊ณผ ์—ญ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ ์›Œํ„ฐํด(reverse waterfall)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์˜ฌํ•ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ธํ”„๋ผ์— ํˆฌ์žํ–ˆ์„ ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ์ธํ”„๋ผ, ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํŒ€, ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ, ๋งค์žฅ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ, ๊ฑด์„คํŒ€, ๋งค์žฅ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญํŒ€์—๋„ ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋œ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์†๋„๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋˜ํ•œ ์˜ฌํ•ด๋Š” ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ ์˜คํ”ˆ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๋„์ž…ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค์˜ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๋œ์–ด์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜๋“œ ์˜คํ”ˆ ๋‚ ์งœ๋ฅผ ์ •ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ชจ๋“  ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๊ทธ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ๋‚ ์งœ๋ฅผ ๋งž์ถ”๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๋งŽ์€ ๋น„์ •์ƒ์ ์ธ ์ƒํ™ฉ๋“ค์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ•˜๋Š” '์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ทผ์„ฑ ๋ฐœํœ˜' ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒ€์›๋“ค์ด ํ•œ๊ณ„๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ฐ€์–ด๋ถ™์—ฌ์ง€๊ณ  ์ง€์ณ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋“ค์ด์š”. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ฒซ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์˜คํ”ˆ ์ผ์ •์„ ๋ถ„์‚ฐ์‹œ์ผœ์„œ ํŠน์ • ์ฃผ์— ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์€ ๋งค์žฅ์ด ๋™์‹œ์— ์˜คํ”ˆ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋„๋ก ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ „์ฒด ๋งค์žฅ๋ง์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ž์›์„ ํšจ์œจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์ฃ . ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ 86๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์˜คํ”ˆํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์†”์งํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํŒ€์€ ์ง€์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •๋ง ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ์ด๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฌด์—‡์ด ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์ €๋„ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณ„ํš์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์‹คํ–‰ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026๋…„์—๋„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•ด๋‚ผ ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Anthony Chukumba from Loop Capital Markets.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Loop Capital Markets์˜ Anthony Chukumba๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Anthony Chukumba: Loop Capital Markets LLC, Research Division So you talked in your prepared remarks about the fact that you have this increased seasonal merchandise assortment as well as an expanded holiday gift program. If I remember correctly, last year, a lot of the holiday gifts were essentially a closeout from Big Lots. But I'm assuming -- and correct me if I'm wrong, but with a lot of the seasonal gift, it's direct sourced from Asia. I guess, first off, let me know if that's correct or not. And then also just what are the margin implications of direct sourcing with the seasonal and the holiday gift as opposed to close out? Eric van der Valk President, CEO & Director Yes, Anthony. The seasonal gifts are a combination of direct source and closeout. To your point, though, they tend to be a little bit more direct source depending on the category, especially true of seasonal. We were fortunate this year to have the ability to buy closeouts in seasonal as a result of some of the retail bankruptcies and some of the store closures. So we had more closeouts as a percentage of our seasonal assortment than we typically see. Yes, but a lot of it is direct source. Gifts, you're remembering a specific closeout we bought last year that was kind of stocking stuffer-oriented gifts. That's true. There's a combination of produced for us and closeouts in gifts tends to be a little bit more produced. What we're seeing with our continued increase in -- as we've accelerated our growth and our continued increase in size and scale and leverage, we are able to buy this product at an even better margin. And it's not a headwind.**Anthony Chukumba:** ์ค€๋น„๋œ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์—์„œ ๊ณ„์ ˆ ์ƒํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์—ฐ๋ง ์„ ๋ฌผ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ๋„ ํ™•์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์ œ ๊ธฐ์–ต์ด ๋งž๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ž‘๋…„์—๋Š” ์—ฐ๋ง ์„ ๋ฌผ ์ƒํ’ˆ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด Big Lots์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜จ ์žฌ๊ณ  ์ •๋ฆฌ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰์ด์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ณ„์ ˆ ์„ ๋ฌผ ์ƒํ’ˆ ์ƒ๋‹น์ˆ˜๋Š” ์•„์‹œ์•„์—์„œ ์ง์ ‘ ์†Œ์‹ฑํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ •๋˜๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์šฐ์„  ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ๋งž๋Š”์ง€ ํ™•์ธํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žฌ๊ณ  ์ •๋ฆฌ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ๊ณ„์ ˆ ์ƒํ’ˆ๊ณผ ์—ฐ๋ง ์„ ๋ฌผ์„ ์ง์ ‘ ์†Œ์‹ฑํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์˜ ๋งˆ์ง„ ์ธก๋ฉด ์˜ํ–ฅ์€ ์–ด๋–ค์ง€ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋„ค, Anthony. ๊ณ„์ ˆ ์„ ๋ฌผ ์ƒํ’ˆ์€ ์ง์ ‘ ์†Œ์‹ฑ๊ณผ ์žฌ๊ณ  ์ •๋ฆฌ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰์„ ํ˜ผํ•ฉํ•ด์„œ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ์ ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ, ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ธด ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ง์†Œ์‹ฑ(direct source) ๋น„์ค‘์ด ์ข€ ๋” ๋†’์€ ํŽธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์‹œ์ฆŒ ์ƒํ’ˆ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋”์šฑ ๊ทธ๋ ‡์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด๋Š” ์šด ์ข‹๊ฒŒ๋„ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์˜ ํŒŒ์‚ฐ๊ณผ ๋งค์žฅ ํ์‡„๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์‹œ์ฆŒ ์ƒํ’ˆ ์žฌ๊ณ ์ •๋ฆฌ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋งค์ž…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ํ†ต์ƒ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ์‹œ์ฆŒ ์ƒํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰์—์„œ ์žฌ๊ณ ์ •๋ฆฌ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰์ด ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋น„์ค‘์ด ๋” ๋†’์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„ค, ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ƒ๋‹น ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์ง์†Œ์‹ฑ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ ๋ฌผ ์ƒํ’ˆ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์ž‘๋…„์— ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์ž…ํ–ˆ๋˜ ํŠน์ • ์žฌ๊ณ ์ •๋ฆฌ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์Šคํƒ€ํ‚น ์Šคํ„ฐํผ(stocking stuffer) ํ˜•ํƒœ์˜ ์„ ๋ฌผ ์ƒํ’ˆ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ ๋ฌผ ์ƒํ’ˆ์€ ์ž์ฒด ์ƒ์‚ฐ๊ณผ ์žฌ๊ณ ์ •๋ฆฌ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰์ด ํ˜ผํ•ฉ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ž์ฒด ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๋น„์ค‘์ด ์ข€ ๋” ๋†’์€ ํŽธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”์™€ ๊ทœ๋ชจ ํ™•๋Œ€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋”์šฑ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋งˆ์ง„์œผ๋กœ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ๋งค์ž…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์—ญํ’์ด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Mark Carden from UBS.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ UBS์˜ Mark Carden๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Mark Carden: UBS Investment Bank, Research Division So building on your marketing spend commentary on the dollar shift from print to digital, you noted you cut on some of the post cards. How are you thinking about the traditional print flyers role going forward in your advertising strategy? And would you expect to make any incremental changes on that front in the coming quarters? Eric van der Valk President, CEO & Director We still do believe in the flyer events. How we deliver the message to the customer is where we'll continue to evolve. We primarily use shared mail for the print piece, but that flyer is also distributed in various digital channels, and we get a tremendous amount of engagement from those traditional channels around our digital channels around the -- those flyer events. So we're still flyer event-driven. We're less print delivered flyer event-driven. We'll continue to shift dollars away from print into digital to ensure that the message gets out there to our customers and we continue to drive these events. We'll shift at a somewhat accelerated pace given we have a tremendous amount of data, and we've learned a lot over the last couple of years about digital, and we'll make smart decisions about ensuring that our flyers still get the exposure, but we're using a more form of media that's going to reach more people long term. I call print, especially for shared mail, it's the kind of the inevitable decline of print media. Like ultimately, it's declining whether we like it or not. So we need to get -- make sure we stay ahead of that.**Mark Carden:** UBS ์ธ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ๋จผํŠธ ๋ฑ…ํฌ, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ: ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์ง€์ถœ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ง์”€๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ, ์ธ์‡„์—์„œ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ๋กœ์˜ ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ ์ด๋™์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ถ€ ์šฐํŽธ ์—ฝ์„œ๋ฅผ ์ค„์ด์…จ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ, ํ–ฅํ›„ ๊ด‘๊ณ  ์ „๋žต์—์„œ ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ์ธ์‡„ ์ „๋‹จ์ง€์˜ ์—ญํ• ์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋ช‡ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์—์„œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”?

Eric van der Valk, ์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ CEO ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ: ์ „๋‹จ์ง€ ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ๊ณ„์† ์ง„ํ™”์‹œ์ผœ ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ธ์‡„๋ฌผ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ฃผ๋กœ ๊ณต์œ  ์šฐํŽธ(shared mail)์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋™์ผํ•œ ์ „๋‹จ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์ฑ„๋„์„ ํ†ตํ•ด์„œ๋„ ๋ฐฐํฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ „๋‹จ์ง€ ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ์ฑ„๋„๊ณผ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์ฑ„๋„ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๋†’์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๋„๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ „๋‹จ์ง€ ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ์ธ์‡„ ์ „๋‹จ์ง€ ๋ฐฐํฌ ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜์กด๋„๋Š” ์ค„์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ๋“ค์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ธ์‡„ ๋งค์ฒด์—์„œ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ์„ ๊ณ„์† ์ „ํ™˜ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์œ ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์™€ ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ์ถ•์ ํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค์†Œ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋œ ์†๋„๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋‹จ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ๋…ธ์ถœ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋˜, ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋„๋‹ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋งค์ฒด ํ˜•ํƒœ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ˜„๋ช…ํ•œ ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๋‚ด๋ฆด ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ธ์‡„ ๋งค์ฒด, ํŠนํžˆ ๊ณต์œ  ์šฐํŽธ๋ฌผ(shared mail)์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ธ์‡„ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด์˜ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€ํ”ผํ•œ ์‡ ํ‡ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ข‹๋“  ์‹ซ๋“  ์ธ์‡„ ๋งค์ฒด๋Š” ์‡ ํ‡ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”์— ์•ž์„œ ๋‚˜๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: [Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from the line of Simeon Gutman from Morgan Stanley.**Operator:** 200000

[์šด์˜์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด] ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๋ชจ๊ฑด์Šคํƒ ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‹œ๋ฉ”์˜จ ๊ตฌํŠธ๋งŒ ์• ๋„๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Lauren Ng: Morgan Stanley, Research Division This is Lauren Ng on for Simeon. First, can you maybe walk through your expectations for the Q4 comp? You mentioned quarter-to-date trends are currently ahead of the guide. So maybe how should we think about this in the context of Q4? And maybe what's driving your expectations for this acceleration? And then quickly, just following up on gross margins. Are you able to help us size the impact of the tariff-related expenses on the Q3? And it looks like the Q4 gross margin contracts pretty meaningfully year-over-year. Is this primarily driven by the tariff impacts?**Lauren Ng:** ๋ชจ๊ฑด์Šคํƒ ๋ฆฌ ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ ์‹œ๋ฉ”์˜จ์„ ๋Œ€์‹ ํ•ด์„œ ๋กœ๋ Œ ์‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ „๋ง์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ˆ„๊ณ„ ์ถ”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ, 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์—์„œ ์ด๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ดํ•ดํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ๊นŒ์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™” ์ „๋ง์„ ์ด๋„๋Š” ์š”์ธ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ›„์† ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๊ด€์„ธ ๊ด€๋ จ ๋น„์šฉ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋กœ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์ด ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์ถ•์†Œ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ด๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ฃผ๋กœ ๊ด€์„ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ธ๊ฐ€์š”?
Robert Helm: Executive VP & CFO Well, I'll try to address that question, but I think it was 6 parts. So if I forget part, let me know. From a comp perspective, I just want to clarify, we did not say that comps needed to accelerate to meet the guidance. We said that comps are currently running ahead of our guidance quarter-to-date. What gives us confidence in delivering that for the balance of the quarter is our strength in our transaction trends, which we've seen in the mid-single digits pretty much for all of the year this year as well as the complexion step change in our AUR, which is now positive low single digits versus a negative high single digits in the third quarter. In terms of gross margin for fourth quarter, we'd always planned the gross margin to be in the mid-39% range. That's kind of how we think about the fourth quarter historically. We do have a number of tailwinds this year in gross margin that I outlined between lower markdown rates, benefits from shrink, our ability to follow other retailers with price gaps and take price on tariff-impacted products. So all in all, we feel good in delivering the fourth quarter gross margin. We're just always going to be conservative so that we position our guidance that we can deliver to our shareholders, but we can also take the necessary actions that we need to manage our business and deliver to our customers.**Robert Helm:** ์Œ, ๊ทธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, 6๊ฐœ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜๋‰˜์–ด์ง„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋„ค์š”. ํ˜น์‹œ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋น ๋œจ๋ฆฐ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ๋จผ์ € ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ๋งค์ถœ(comp) ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฒƒ์€, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ๋งค์ถœ์ด ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋˜์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ์ ์ด ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ˆ„๊ณ„ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ๋งค์ถœ์ด ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ž”์—ฌ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ด๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ํ™•์‹ ์„ ๊ฐ–๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ๊ฑด์ˆ˜ ์ถ”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋‚ด๋‚ด ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜๋Œ€(mid-single digits)๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ด์™”๊ณ , ํ‰๊ท ํŒ๋งค๋‹จ๊ฐ€(AUR)๋„ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์— ์žˆ์–ด ๋‹จ๊ณ„์  ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋†’์€ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜๋Œ€ ๋งˆ์ด๋„ˆ์Šค์˜€๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ด์ œ๋Š” ๋‚ฎ์€ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜๋Œ€ ํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ์Šค๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ (gross margin)๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ๋Š”, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ 39% ์ค‘๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๊ณ„ํšํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ด€์ ์ด ๊ทธ๋ ‡์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ (gross margin)์—๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ธ์ •์  ์š”์ธ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋งˆํฌ๋‹ค์šด์œจ ๊ฐ์†Œ, ์žฌ๊ณ  ์†์‹ค ๊ฐ์†Œ ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ๋Ÿฌ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์กฐ์ • ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ด€์„ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ ๋“ฑ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข…ํ•ฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ  ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ ์ธ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ ์ทจํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ์ฃผ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜ ์•ฝ์†์„ ์ง€ํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ์„ค์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์—, ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์„ ์ทจํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ๋‘๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์ฃ .
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Ed Kelly from Wells Fargo.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Wells Fargo์˜ Ed Kelly๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Edward Kelly: Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division I was curious as to maybe just some early thoughts on the 2026 comp build. And I'm kind of thinking about it in the context of the big tailwind, which obviously you are benefiting from or taking advantage of that for some stores, does that normalize next year? Then as we think about the Big Lot -- the store openings from this year, which many of them were Big Lot conversions, do they act like the 99 Cents Only Stores, meaning flattish or low-ish comp in year 1? And then when you pull all that together, does that basically kind of mean that the highest probability outcome or way to start would be your traditional sort of like 1% to 2% comp guide? And then how do you think about like opportunity associated with that? Obviously, there's some fiscal stuff coming next year with tax cuts. And I'm curious as to how you think that might play out for you?**Edward Kelly:** 2026๋…„ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ (comp) ์ „๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๊ฒฌํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์—์„œ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด, ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค์ด ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ํฐ ์ˆœํ’ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด๋…„์—๋Š” ์ •์ƒํ™”๋˜๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ฌํ•ด ์‹ ๊ทœ ์˜คํ”ˆํ•œ ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค, ํŠนํžˆ ๋น…๋ž(Big Lot) ์ „ํ™˜ ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋“ค์ด 99์„ผํŠธ ์˜จ๋ฆฌ ์Šคํ† ์–ด(99 Cents Only Stores)์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ฒซ ํ•ด์—๋Š” ๋ณดํ•ฉ์„ธ๋‚˜ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์„ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”?

์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์„ ์ข…ํ•ฉํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด, ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ ๋†’์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋‚˜ ์ถœ๋ฐœ์ ์ด ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ 1~2% ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ  ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ๊ธฐํšŒ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€์š”? ๋‚ด๋…„์— ๊ฐ์„ธ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์žฌ์ • ์ •์ฑ…๋“ค์ด ์˜ˆ์ •๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ท€์‚ฌ์— ์–ด๋–ค ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Robert Helm: Executive VP & CFO Ed, this is Rob. I'll take that question. So listening to your question, and you answered it for me with a positive 1% to 2%. I was giggling a little bit when I was thinking about it. So from a comp guidance perspective for next year, we'll likely stay on algo. We like the beauty of the algo. It's how we manage our business. It's how we set our cost structure each year. But it's not lost on us that there are tailwinds, potential tailwinds to the comp guidance for next year. I think the potential for elevated tax money in the first half of the year is certainly a piece of it. Big Lots market share capture should be the gift that keeps giving. And we'd expect for that to be a multiyear share capture. AUR, which was a drag this year, potentially, we don't see those types of drags from year-to-year. So I think all in all, there's a number of factors to be positive about next year's comp guidance. But like you said in your question, we'll reset at the positive 1% to 2%, and then we'll seek to deliver from there. And you know what we say, we don't turn the registers off.**Robert Helm:** ๋„ค, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์งˆ๋ฌธ ์ฃผ์‹  ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋“ค์œผ๋ฉด์„œ, ํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ์Šค 1~2%๋ผ๊ณ  ์ง์ ‘ ๋‹ต์„ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์…”์„œ ์†์œผ๋กœ ์ข€ ์›ƒ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๋…„ ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๋งค์ถœ(comp) ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์•„๋งˆ๋„ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์˜ ์žฅ์ ์ด ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋“ค๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด๊ณ , ๋งค๋…„ ๋น„์šฉ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ์„ค์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚ด๋…„ ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๋งค์ถœ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค์— ์ˆœํ’ ์š”์ธ๋“ค, ์ž ์žฌ์ ์ธ ์ˆœํ’ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ๋„ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์ธ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์— ์„ธ๊ธˆ ํ™˜๊ธ‰๊ธˆ์ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ํ•œ ์š”์ธ์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๊ณ ์š”. ๋น…๋ž์ธ (Big Lots)์˜ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ ํ™•๋ณด๋Š” ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ์„ ๋ฌผ์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฑด ์ˆ˜๋…„์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ์ ์œ ์œจ ํ™•๋ณด๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. AUR์ด ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋ถ€๋‹ด ์š”์ธ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋‚ด๋…„์—๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ข…๋ฅ˜์˜ ๋ถ€๋‹ด ์š”์ธ๋“ค์ด ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด๋…„ ๊ธฐ์กด์  ๋งค์ถœ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์งˆ๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ์Šค 1~2%๋กœ ์žฌ์„ค์ •ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ , ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•„์‹œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณ„์‚ฐ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Kate McShane from Goldman Sachs.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๊ณจ๋“œ๋งŒ์‚ญ์Šค์˜ ์ผ€์ดํŠธ ๋งฅ์…ฐ์ธ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Unknown Analyst: This is [indiscernible] on for Kate McShane. For the 2026 pipeline of 75 stores, could you maybe expand more on the drivers behind this? And any color on the new store pipeline, like maybe anything you're doing differently? And what are you seeing in the real estate environment and unit growth longer term? Eric van der Valk President, CEO & Director Sure. Yes, we are guiding to 75 stores. We -- opening new stores remains our highest and best use of capital and the investments that we made in accelerating growth really paid off. We're pleased with how we executed getting to the 86 stores this year and the front-loading that we've been able to achieve of getting all the stores open by end of Q3, opening on budget, outperforming projections, et cetera. When we look at the environment moving into 2026, there's enough real estate to fuel growth, that the 75 is already set. We have the deals, most leases signed. There is still vacancy out there from all of the distressed retailers and bankrupt retailers that have gone out, including a disproportionate number of Big Lots vacancies that weren't available or were available to purchase, but not purchased it as part of the bankruptcy auction process that were then available for us to pick up on the open market. So a disproportionate number of the 75 are Big Lots stores, which we like a lot because those Big Lot stores, what we call warm boxes because they have a discount customer who was just shopping in that store literally 5 minutes ago, we reopened as an Ollie's. We've seen a lot of success over the past year with those stores. So we feel very good about the 75, and we'll continue to evaluate based on opportunities that are in the market and not seeking to extend past the 75. We feel like it's the right number at this point when we balance our accelerated growth with other strategic priorities that we have in place for 2026, but it's a very respectful number on 75.**Unknown Analyst:** 2026๋…„ 75๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ๋™์ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด, ํ˜น์‹œ ์ด์ „๊ณผ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹  ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹ ์ง€์š”? ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ ํฌ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€์š”?

๋„ค, 75๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ์˜คํ”ˆ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ตœ์šฐ์„  ์ž๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„์ฒ˜์ด์ž ์ตœ์„ ์˜ ํˆฌ์ž์ฒ˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ํˆฌ์žํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด 86๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ ์˜คํ”ˆ์„ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์— ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋งค์žฅ์„ ์˜คํ”ˆํ•˜๋Š” ์„ ์ œ์  ์ ‘๊ทผ, ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ ๋‚ด ์˜คํ”ˆ, ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋“ฑ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026๋…„์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•  ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ์ด ์žˆ๊ณ , 75๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์€ ์ด๋ฏธ ํ™•์ •๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋Š” ์™„๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์ž„๋Œ€ ๊ณ„์•ฝ๋„ ์ฒด๊ฒฐ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ€์‹ค ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค๊ณผ ํŒŒ์‚ฐํ•œ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์ฒ ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ณต์‹ค์ด ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ํŠนํžˆ Big Lots ๋งค์žฅ ๊ณต์‹ค์ด ์ƒ๋‹น์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค ๋งค์žฅ์€ ํŒŒ์‚ฐ ๊ฒฝ๋งค ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๋งค์ž…์ด ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ–ˆ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋งค์ž…๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ดํ›„ ๊ณต๊ฐœ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ™•๋ณดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ 75๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ ์ค‘ ์ƒ๋‹น์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ Big Lots ๋งค์žฅ์ธ๋ฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ ๋งค์šฐ ์„ ํ˜ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ Big Lots ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค์„ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” '์›œ๋ฐ•์Šค(warm boxes)'๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฅด๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋ง ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ 5๋ถ„ ์ „๊นŒ์ง€๋งŒ ํ•ด๋„ ๊ทธ ๋งค์žฅ์—์„œ ์‡ผํ•‘ํ•˜๋˜ ํ• ์ธ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ธต์ด ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ Ollie's ๋งค์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์žฌ์˜คํ”ˆํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ 1๋…„๊ฐ„ ํ•ด๋‹น ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค์—์„œ ๋งŽ์€ ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ ๊ฑฐ๋‘์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ 75๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ ๊ณ„ํš์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์‹œ์žฅ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ 75๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด์„œ๋Š” ํ™•์žฅ์€ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ณ„ํš์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026๋…„ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ „๋žต์  ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์˜ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ํ˜„ ์‹œ์ ์—์„œ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์ˆซ์ž๋ผ๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 75๊ฐœ๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ทœ๋ชจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Jeremy Hamblin from Craig-Hallum Capital Group.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Craig-Hallum Capital Group์˜ Jeremy Hamblin์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jeremy Hamblin: Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, Research Division Congrats on the sustained momentum. I wanted to just come back to the unit openings and get a sense, Rob, for what you're expecting in terms of preopening expense next year, given kind of the impacts of dark rent this year and the timing that you're suggesting with a bit more in the front half of the year than the back half of the year. That's kind of part one. And then two is just in terms of the DC expansions that you're looking at -- in looking at the Illinois facility next year, what type of impact do you see on margins, if any, related to those efforts?**Jeremy Hamblin:** ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์— ์ถ•ํ•˜๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์žฅ ์˜คํ”ˆ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€๋ฐ์š”, Rob, ๋‚ด๋…„ ๊ฐœ์  ์ „ ๋น„์šฉ(preopening expense)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์˜ฌํ•ด ์•”๋ฌต์  ์ž„๋Œ€๋ฃŒ(dark rent) ์˜ํ–ฅ๊ณผ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ์‹œ๊ธฐ์  ์š”์ธ, ์ฆ‰ ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์— ์ข€ ๋” ์ง‘์ค‘๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ์ด๊ฒŒ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด๊ณ ์š”.

๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋Š” ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ(DC) ํ™•์žฅ ๊ด€๋ จ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๋…„ ์ผ๋ฆฌ๋…ธ์ด ์‹œ์„ค์„ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ๋ฐ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ๋“ค์ด ๋งˆ์ง„์— ์–ด๋–ค ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€์š”?
Robert Helm: Executive VP & CFO I'll take both of those actually. So from a preopening perspective, I think the easiest way to think about it was we had $5 million of Big Lots dark rent in this year. When we acquired those stores, we're on the clock immediately. And so you subtract that out and then flex the preopening expense for the number of unit openings between the 86 and the 75, and you should be able to get reasonably close to where we're going to land the '26 guidance. From a margin perspective, on the expansion, back in the day when we were opening distribution centers and we were smaller with less of a sales base, it was a little bit more of an impact on gross margin in terms of drag when we either open a new distribution center or expanded distribution center. Now that the ship has gotten so big, we'd expect a nominal impact and would anticipate that we would be able to fully offset that through our guidance.**Robert Helm:** ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ์„  ๊ฐœ์  ์ค€๋น„ ๋น„์šฉ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ์˜ฌํ•ด Big Lots ๋งค์žฅ ๊ณต์‹ค ์ž„๋Œ€๋ฃŒ๋กœ 500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด๋‹น ๋งค์žฅ๋“ค์„ ์ธ์ˆ˜ํ•˜์ž๋งˆ์ž ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ž„๋Œ€๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ์ด ๊ธˆ์•ก์„ ์ œ์™ธํ•˜๊ณ , 86๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ ๊ฐœ์  ๊ณ„ํš์—์„œ 75๊ฐœ๋กœ ์กฐ์ •๋œ ์ ์„ ๊ฐ์•ˆํ•ด์„œ ๊ฐœ์  ์ค€๋น„ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด, 2026๋…„ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค์— ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๊ทผ์ ‘ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ๋„์ถœํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋งˆ์ง„ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ํ™•์žฅ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์„คํ•˜๋˜ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๊ฐ€ ์ž‘๊ณ  ๋งค์ถœ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜๋„ ์ ์—ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์˜คํ”ˆํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ธฐ์กด ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํ™•์žฅํ•  ๋•Œ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ (gross margin)์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋‹ด์ด ์ง€๊ธˆ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ปธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์ปค์กŒ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋ช…๋ชฉ์ƒ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋งŒ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด๋ฅผ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์ƒ์‡„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jeremy Hamblin: Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, Research Division If I could just one follow-up here on tariffs as well. As we look ahead to next year with the China tariffs being pulled down here by 10 percentage points, would you expect, as we look at kind of holiday season impacts around gross margins to be a bit lower next year if nothing else changes on policy front? Eric van der Valk President, CEO & Director I think, Jeremy, just consider we manage our price gaps. We're a fast follower in terms of price. And the whole world is experiencing the same impact of tariffs, 10% less across the entire industry, other retailers, other importers experience the same. So if they invest in price, adjust their price, lower their price, increase their price according to whichever direction the tariffs may move because there's still a little uncertainty around this at this point as well, then we're a fast follower. We're adjusting price, ensuring that we're maintaining our price gaps. So a long way of saying that I would expect if tariffs go down, eventually the market is adjusting price coming down some, we're coming down some to maintain our price gaps and not expecting it to be some sort of unexpected positive win from a gross margin standpoint in the same way that it wasn't a negative for us as tariffs were increased.**Jeremy Hamblin:** ๊ด€์„ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ๋” ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๋…„์— ์ค‘๊ตญ ๊ด€์„ธ๊ฐ€ 10%ํฌ์ธํŠธ ์ธํ•˜๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ •์ฑ… ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋‚ด๋…„ ํ™€๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์ด ์‹œ์ฆŒ์˜ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ  ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ์˜ฌํ•ด๋ณด๋‹ค ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋‚ฎ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์‹œ๋‚˜์š”?

์ œ๋ ˆ๋ฏธ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋น ๋ฅธ ์ถ”์ข…์ž(fast follower) ์ „๋žต์„ ์ทจํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๋™์ผํ•œ ๊ด€์„ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—…๊ณ„ ์ „์ฒด์— ๊ฑธ์ณ 10% ์ธํ•˜๊ฐ€ ์ ์šฉ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค๊ณผ ์ˆ˜์ž…์—…์ฒด๋“ค๋„ ๋™์ผํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŒ์•ฝ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์— ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ๊ด€์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋А ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์›€์ง์ด๋“  ๊ทธ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ธํ•˜ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ธ์ƒํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด - ํ˜„์‹œ์ ์—์„œ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ธ๋ฐ์š” - ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋น ๋ฅธ ์ถ”์ข…์ž๋กœ์„œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ธธ๊ฒŒ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ์ง€๋งŒ, ์š”์•ฝํ•˜์ž๋ฉด ๊ด€์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์ธํ•˜๋˜๋ฉด ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์‹œ์žฅ์ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ๋‚ฎ์ถ”๋Š” ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์กฐ์ •ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ , ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋„ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ ์œ ์ง€๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ์ธํ•˜ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ด€์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์ธ์ƒ๋  ๋•Œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ถ€์ •์  ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ์—†์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ์ด๋งˆ์ง„(gross margin) ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜ ๋ชปํ•œ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์ด์ต์„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: That concludes today's call. Thank you for participating. You may all now disconnect.**Operator:** ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ์ข…๋ฃŒํ•˜์…”๋„ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ ์š”์•ฝ

# Ollie's Bargain Outlet Q3 Earnings Call Summary

## ์ฃผ์š” ์žฌ๋ฌด ์‹ค์  ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค
- **3Q ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ๋งค์ถœ(comp) +3.3%** ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ, ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค +3%๋ฅผ ์ƒํšŒ. ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๊ฑด์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ค‘๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ ํ•œ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ๊ฐ๋‹จ๊ฐ€๋Š” ํ•œ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ํ›„๋ฐ˜ ๊ฐ์†Œ (์†Œ๋น„์žฌ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํˆฌ์ž ๋ฐ ์ €๊ฐ€ ์ƒํ’ˆ ํ™•๋Œ€ ์ „๋žต)
- **4Q ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ์œ ์ง€**: ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ดˆ ์‹ค์ ์ด ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ์ƒํšŒ ์ค‘์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ๋‹จ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ 3Q ๊ณ ๋‹จ์œ„ ํ•œ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ๊ฐ์†Œ์—์„œ 4Q ์ €๋‹จ์œ„ ํ•œ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜
- **์ด๋งˆ์ง„์œจ 40.3% ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค** ์œ ์ง€ (์žฅ๊ธฐ ๋ชฉํ‘œ 40% ์ƒํšŒ). ๊ทœ๋ชจ ํ™•๋Œ€ ๋ฐ ์žฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ์ถ• ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ๋น„์šฉ ๋ฐ ๊ด€์„ธ ๋ถ€๋‹ด ์ƒ์‡„
- **2026๋…„ ์ „๋ง**: ๋งค์žฅ 75๊ฐœ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์˜คํ”ˆ ๊ณ„ํš, ๋งค์ถœ ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋ฐ ์ˆœ์ด์ต ์ค‘๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ 10% ์„ฑ์žฅ ์˜ˆ์ƒ

## ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„ ํ†ค ๋ฐ ์ „๋žต
- **๊ณ ๊ฐ ํ™•๋ณด ๊ฐ•์„ธ**: ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์œ ์ž…์ด ์—ญ๋Œ€ ์ตœ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ค€, ํŠนํžˆ 18~34์„ธ ์ Š์€ ์ธต๊ณผ ์—ฐ์†Œ๋“ $65,000 ์ด์ƒ ์ค‘์ƒ์œ„์ธต์—์„œ ๊ฐ•์„ธ. ์ €์†Œ๋“์ธต์€ ์ •๋ถ€ ์…ง๋‹ค์šด ์˜ํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์†Œํญ ์•ฝ์„ธ
- **CPG ๋ฐ ์†Œ๋น„์žฌ ๊ฐ•ํ™”**: ์†Œ๋งค ํŒŒ์‚ฐ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋กœ CPG ์žฌ๊ณ  ํ™•๋ณด