BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc.

Hello everyone and welcome to the BJ's Wholesale Club Q1 2023 earnings conference call. My name is Carla and I will be coordinating your call today. After the speaker's remarks there will be a question and answer session. To register a question please press star followed by one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to revoke your question you can press star followed by two. When preparing for your question please ensure your phone is unmuted locally. I'll now pass the call over to your host, Kathy Park.

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Good morning and thank you for joining BJ's Wholesale Club's first quarter fiscal 2023 earnings conference call. On the call today are Bob Eddy, President and Chief Executive Officer, Laura Felice, Chief Financial Officer, and Bill Werner, Executive Vice President, Strategy and Development. Please remember that during this call, we may make forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements are based on our current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations described on this call. Please see the risk factors sections of our most recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Q files with the SEC for a description of those risks and uncertainties. Finally, please note that on today's call, we will refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures that we believe will provide useful information for investors. The presentation of this information is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the financial information presented in accordance with GAAP. Please refer to today's press release and the latest investor presentation posted on our IR site for a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. With that, I'll turn the call over to Bob.