Macy's Inc

Good morning and welcome to Macy's Inc. second quarter 2020 earnings conference call. Today's 90 minutes long conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to Mike McGuire, head of investor relations. Please go ahead, sir.

Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us on this conference call to discuss our second quarter 2020 results. With me on the call today are Jeff Gannett, our chairman and CEO, and Felicia Williams, our interim CFO. Jeff and Felicia have several prepared remarks to share, after which we'll host a question and answer session. Given the time constraints and the number of people who want to participate, we ask that you please limit your questions to one with a quick follow-up. In addition to this call and our press release, we have posted a slide presentation on the investors section of our website, nacyinc.com. The presentation summarizes the information in our prepared remarks and includes some additional facts and figures. I do have two housekeeping items to share. First, with our third quarter results, we'll be resuming our normal earnings report cadence. We'll be releasing results and hosting the associated earnings call on Thursday, November 19th, before market opens. Second, Jeff and Felicia will be participating in a fireside chat at the Goldman Sachs Global Retailing Conference on Wednesday, September 9th at 7.30 a.m. Eastern Time. Both events will be webcast on our Investor Relations website, so please mark your calendars. Keep in mind that all forward-looking statements are subject to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations and assumptions mentioned today. A detailed discussion of these factors and uncertainties is contained in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In discussing the results of our operations, we will be providing certain non-GAAP financial measures. You can find additional information regarding these non-GAAP financial measures, as well as others used in our earnings release and our presentation located on the Investors section of our website. As a reminder, today's call is being webcast on our website. A replay will be available approximately two hours after the conclusion of this call. and it will be archived on our website for one year. Now I'd like to turn this over to Jeff.

Thanks Mike and good morning everyone and thank you for joining us. As you saw in our press release this morning, despite the challenging environment, Macy's Inc second quarter came in better than we had anticipated. I want to thank the Macy's, Bloomingdale's and Blue Mercury teams for their efforts in these extraordinary times. On today's call, Felicia will take you through the second quarter results and provide some perspective on how we're looking at the back half of the year. Then I will provide some context on holiday 2020 and give an update on the Polaris strategy, which we launched in February. We will then open up the line for your questions. With that, I'll hand it over to Felicia.