Case 2: Bed Bath & Beyond (Ticker: BBBY)

The following is an excerpt from BBBYs 10-K report: Overview We are an omni-channel retailer that makes it easy for our customers to feel at home. We sell a wide assortment of merchandise in the Home, Baby, Beauty & Wellness markets and operate under the names Bed Bath & Beyond, buybuy BABY ("BABY"), and Harmon, Harmon Face Values, or Face Values (collectively, "Harmon"). We also operate Decorist ("Decorist"), an online interior design platform that provides personalized home design services.

We offer a broad assortment of national brands and a growing assortment of proprietary Owned Brand merchandise including eight new proprietary Owned Brands ("Owned Brands") launched in Fiscal 2021 in key destination categories including bedding, bath, kitchen food prep, home organization, indoor dcor, baby and personal care.

We operate a robust omni-channel platform consisting of various websites and applications and physical retail stores. Our e-commerce platforms include bedbathandbeyond.com, bedbathandbeyond.ca, harmondiscount.com, facevalues.com, buybuybaby.com, buybuybaby.ca and decorist.com. We also operate 953 retail stores, as of February 26, 2022, consisting of 771 Bed Bath & Beyond stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Canada, 130 BABY stores in 37 states and Canada and 52 Harmon stores in 6 states. During Fiscal 2021, we opened 4 new stores and closed 70 stores. As of February 26, 2022, our total store square footage, net of openings and closings, was approximately 27.9 million square feet. In addition to our U.S. and Canadian operations, we are a partner in a joint venture that operates 11 stores in Mexico under the name Bed Bath & Beyond.

Starting in late 2019, we have created a more focused portfolio through the divestiture of non-core assets, including businesses and real estate, as part of the ongoing business transformation underway. See "Transformation," "Strategy" and "Divestitures" below.

Our merchandise and services are offered to customers through an omni-channel platform across our portfolio of banners, which consist of:

Bed Bath & Beyond - a leading specialty home retailer in North America that sells a wide assortment of domestics merchandise and home furnishings. Bed Bath & Beyond is a preferred destination in the home space, particularly in key product categories including bedding, bath, kitchen food prep, home organization and indoor decor.

buybuy BABY - a leading specialty baby retailer in North America that sells a wide assortment of baby essentials and nursery furnishings. BABY strives to build trust with parents by supporting them with what they need so families can celebrate every milestone big and small together.

Harmon Health and Beauty - offers an expansive assortment of leading name brand and private label personal care and beauty brands at deep everyday value.

Decorist - an online interior design company that makes decorating a home easy and affordable. Executed entirely online, Decorist's roster of over 190 professional interior designers help beautifully design any room in the home, staying within a client's style and budget. For customers not ready to start a full design project, they can consult Decorist's Design Bar to have quick design questions answered by Decorist's team of interior designers, completely free of charge.

We are driving a digital-first, omni-always growth strategy and optimizing our digital and physical store channels to provide our customers with a seamless omni-channel shopping experience. Digital purchases, including web and mobile, can be shipped to a customer from our distribution facilities, directly from vendors, or from a store. Store purchases are primarily fulfilled from that store's inventory or may also be shipped to a customer from one of our distribution facilities, from a vendor, or from another store. Customers can also choose to pick up orders using our Buy Online Pickup In Store ("BOPIS") and contactless Curbside Pickup services, as well as return online purchases to a store, or have an order delivered through one of our delivery partners, including DoorDash and Uber. Customers can also make purchases through one of our customer contact centers and in-store through The Beyond Store, our proprietary web-based platform.

As of February 26, 2022, we had distribution facilities totaling approximately 4.4 million square feet, including our first regional distribution center, an approximately one million square foot facility in Frackville, Pennsylvania, which became operational during Fiscal 2021. We also executed a lease for our second regional distribution center in Jurupa Valley, California, which is expected to be operational by late 2022. Ryder Systems, Inc. will operate these two regional distribution centers under a strategic partnership, with the objective of reducing product replenishment times and improving the customer experience. All of these capabilities allow us to better serve customers across our omni-channel network.

Transformation

Since 2019, we have undertaken significant changes to transform our business and adapt to the dynamic retail environment and the evolving needs of our customers in order to position ourselves for long-term success. As part of these changes, our management team, led by President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mark Tritton, has been focused on driving an omni-always, customer-inspired strategy to re-establish our authority in the Home, Baby, Beauty & Wellness markets. We have created a more focused portfolio through the divestiture of non-core assets and further strengthened our financial flexibility through key actions such as corporate restructurings and operating expense control to re- set our cost structure and support our ongoing business transformation.

We are implementing a growth strategy that will harness the power of data and insights to engage customers across our four core banners (Bed Bath & Beyond, buybuy BABY, Harmon and Decorist) in an enterprise-wide plan to accelerate our omni-channel transformation. Our strategy is underpinned by five key pillars of strategic focus and investment: product, price, promise, place and people. Through this approach, we are becoming a digital-first, customer-focused omni-channel retailer with a more curated, inspirational and differentiated product collection across categories, and creating a more convenient and inspirational shopping experience.

You can access BBBYs 10-K reports on sec.gov. Use the information in the annual report to answer the following questions for BBBY for the years ended February 26, 2022 (FY 2021) and February 27, 2021 (FY 2020).

1. In BBBYs https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/static/environmentalsocialgovernance, the CEO states in the introduction, Everything we do at Bed Bath & Beyond starts with our three pillars of action: people, community, and planet. They represent the foundation around which Bed Bath & Beyond seeks to create value and I am proud to share updates to our commitment in our 2021 ESG Report.

On page 8 of the report, we find a summary of the goals and progress for each of these pillars. Under the pillar planet, discuss how the goals and progress may affect future financial statement results and/or market value of the firm.

10. Continuing to examine the ESG report, in the people section on pages 9-17, does this information make it more likely that you would shop or work for BBBY? Does it make it more likely that you would invest in BBBY? Use specific examples to support your answers.