Shoe Carnival, Inc. (SCVL) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Good morning, and welcome to SHU Carnival's first quarter 2026 earnings conference call. Today's conference call is being recorded and is also being broadcast via webcast. Any reproduction or rebroadcast of any portion of this call is expressly prohibited. Management's remarks today contain certain forward-looking statements and certain non-GAAP financial measures. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause the company's actual results to be materially different from those projected in such statements. Forward-looking statements should also be considered in conjunction with the discussion of risk factors included in the company's SEC filings and today's earnings press release. Information about our use of adjusted or non-GAAP financial measures, including reconciliations to U.S. GAAP, can be found in our earnings materials that are available on our website. I will now turn the conference over to Mr. Cliff Sifford, Interim President and Chief Executive Officer of Shoe Carnival, for opening remarks. Mr. Sifford, you may begin. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. With me on the call are Kerry Jackson, our Chief Financial Officer, Tanya Gordon, our Chief Merchandising Officer, and Mark Chilton, our Chief Operating Officer. Tanya and Mark are both available to take your questions during the Q&A portion of the call. This is my second earnings call since returning as interim chief executive officer in late February. And I want to begin by thanking our board, our management team, and our associates across the company for their hard work during this period of transition. When I returned in late February, the board asked me to take a fresh look at the rebanner program and the broader strategic directio...