Petco Health and Wellness Company, Inc.

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to PECO's first quarter 2022 earnings conference call. All participants are currently in a listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please see a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To join the question queue, you may press star and then one. To withdraw your questions, you may press star and two. After today's presentation, Please note today's conference call is being recorded. At this time, I'd like to turn the conference call over to Benjamin Thiel-Long, Petco's Director of Executive and Business Communications.

Benjamin, you may begin.

Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining Petco's first quarter 2022 earnings conference call. In addition to the earnings release, there is a presentation and infographic available to download on our website at ir.petco.com. summarizing our first quarter 2022 results. On the call with me today, Mr. Ron Coughlin, Petco's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Mr. Brian LaRoche, Petco's Chief Financial Officer. In a few moments, I would invite Ron and Brian to provide their perspective on Petco's financial and operating performance for the quarter and their outlook and priorities for the quarters and year ahead. Before they begin, I would like to remind you that on this call, we will make forward-looking statements. regarding our current plans, beliefs, and expectations, which are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from results and events contemplated by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include those set out in our earnings release and our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date marked and except as required by law We undertake no obligation to update or revise any of them, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. In addition, today's presentation contains references to non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are included in our earnings release and our presentation, as well as in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. And finally, during the question and answer portion of today's call, and to allow us time for questions from as many participants as possible. We would be grateful if you could keep to one question and one follow-up. With that, let me turn it over to Ron.