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10-K ITEM 1A · FY2025 → FY2026

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Information is provided herein with respect to our operations related to our fiscal years ended on January 31, 2026 (“fiscal 2025”), February 1, 2025 (“fiscal 2024”) and February 3, 2024 (“fiscal 2023”) .
(“CITITRENDS” or the “Company”) is a highly differentiated off-price value retailer known for trendy fashions, great brands and amazing prices.
We are the leading off-price retailer specifically focused on Black customers, delivering the styles, brands, and trends at amazing prices that resonate with our primary and secondary customers.
Our product offering is Women’s, Men’s and Children’s apparel, family footwear, accessories and products for the home, with a three-tiered mix of product.
At the opening price point, we offer value-focused basics for our most budget-conscious customers.
The core of our business is our ‘better’ tier- quality products with breadth of selection and fresh styles.
At the top end, we’re expanding our ‘best’ tier with two distinct approaches.
First, we’re adding more trend-relevant product at prices well below specialty retail.
Second, we’re building our extreme value capabilities, offering well-known branded product at 50% to 75% off MSRP.
Our research shows this treasure hunt element resonates particularly well with our core customer, who views shopping as both a practical necessity and an enjoyable activity, fostering deep customer loyalty and high shopping frequency in the communities in which we operate.
They understand that value is more than price and are willing to spend more when the style is for them, the fashion is on trend and the quality is right.
Our brand promise is clear: Styles that see you, prices that amaze you and trends that tell your story.
Our stores are strategically located in vibrant Black communities with product offerings for the entire family.
As of January 31, 2026, we operated 590 stores in 33 states.
We believe the combination of product curated for the Black consumer at amazing prices, and the large scale of our 590 community stores is extremely hard to duplicate which gives us a defensible moat against competition.
Competitive Strengths and Strategies CITITRENDS is the leading off-price retailer specifically focused on Black customers.
With 590 stores located in the communities we serve, our customers rely on us as their off-price value retailer of apparel, accessories and home trends.
Because of our long-term presence in the Black community, our customers are highly engaged and loyal to CITITRENDS.
Community Store Locations are a key point of differentiation.
We locate our stores in high-traffic outdoor community shopping centers that are convenient to Black families.
We believe that these community locations are difficult to duplicate, creating a competitive moat for our brand.
We generally utilize previously occupied store sites in locations where we are often the brightest and cleanest store in the shopping center, which enables us to obtain attractive rents while establishing ourselves as community cornerstones.
We curate our merchandise assortment to be trend right styles at amazing prices, recognizing that our customers use style as a form of personal expression.
Our creative department is focused on identifying emerging trends and ensuring that our wide assortment of apparel and non-apparel merchandise is curated to appeal to the preferences of Black customers.
We seek to offer high quality, fashionable merchandise.
The majority of our product is sold at ticketed price with compare at pricing to demonstrate our pricing superiority against competition.
We do not employ high-low or point of sale discounting pricing strategies; instead, our everyday ticketed low price points offer superior value, enabling our customers to purchase multiple items per visit.
We rely on regular in-store deliveries of the latest trends at great prices which drives word-of-mouth awareness and excitement in the communities we serve, which in turn creates customer visit frequency.
We offer Women’s, Men’s and Children’s apparel, family footwear, accessories and products for the home which makes us a family destination in our communities.
We offer a trendy assortment of culturally relevant fashions, core products and opening price products, making us appealing to wide range of income and style taste levels.
We believe that our approximately 11,000 square feet store formats, combined with a neat, clean and organized in-store experience, friendly customer service where we often know our customers’ names, and breadth of merchandise, distinguishes our stores from many competitors and creates an exciting and welcoming environment that encourages high frequency repeat visits from the local community.
We believe that our access to the Black customer drives vendor interest.
Many of our store associates live in the communities where our stores are located and frequently shop our stores themselves.
We have a long heritage of a diverse and inclusive workplace; 74% of our store associates are Black, and more than 90% of our store management positions are filled by women.
Our management team plans and drives our growth strategy, which is based on our constant focus on providing trend-driven merchandise anchored in value to the Black customer.
Business Strategy With our focus on culturally-relevant fashion, exciting brands, and accessible pricing in each of our community locations, we believe that CITITRENDS is in a unique position to serve our loyal customer base, with a long runway for comp sales growth, store unit growth, profit margin expansion and a strong leadership team supported by a healthy, debt free balance sheet.
We have identified the following areas of focus to continue to improve the Company’s financial performance and to maximize long-term growth: Offer Compelling Value Proposition .
Our customers understand that value is more than price and are willing to spend more when the style is for them, the fashion is on trend and the quality is right.
We offer a balanced assortment of good, better, and best products that resonates with our customer base across income levels, all focused on the wants and needs of our Black customers.
This approach differentiates our model while driving customer loyalty and repeat visits.

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Information is provided herein with respect to our operations related to our fiscal years ended on February 1, 2025 ( “ fiscal 2024 ” ), February 3, 2024 ( “ fiscal 2023 ” ) and January 28, 2023 ( “ fiscal 2022 ” ) .
( “ Citi Trends ” or the “ Company ” ) is a highly differentiated off-price value retailer known for trendy fashions, great brands and amazing prices.
We offer culturally relevant fashion – what we call “ Cultural Cachet ” – in apparel, accessories and home goods, primarily for African American families in the United States.
We curate a three tiered mix of product featuring well-known brands, core product and opening price goods, with intermittent extreme value deals.
Our core product styles are curated trend-right, high quality, value for the price.
We offer an assortment of opening price product for the price conscious customer, all sold at competitive prices.
Plus, for the treasure hunters, we often have “ extreme value ” product deals on well-known branded product at 50% to 75% off MSRP.
Consumer insights research validates that our unique culturally relevant styling, and strong value for the price fosters deep customer loyalty and high shopping frequency in the neighborhoods in which we operate.
Our stores are strategically located in vibrant African American neighborhoods with product offerings for the entire family.
As of February 1, 2025, we operated 591 stores in 33 states.
We believe the combination of product curated with Cultural Cachet at amazing prices, and the large scale of our 591 neighborhood stores is extremely hard to duplicate which gives us a defensible moat against competition.
Competitive Strengths and Strategies Citi Trends is one of the largest national retailers focused on African American customers.
With 591 stores located in the neighborhoods we serve, our customers rely on us as a leading off-price value retailer of apparel, accessories and home trends.
Because of our long-term presence in the African American community, our customers are highly engaged and loyal to Citi Trends.
We curate our merchandise assortment to be fashionable and fresh, recognizing that our customers use style as a form of personal expression.
We devote considerable effort to identifying emerging trends and ensuring that our wide assortment of apparel and non-apparel merchandise is curated to appeal to the preferences of African American customers.
We seek to offer high quality, fashionable merchandise with Cultural Cachet and believe that our value proposition provides important access to trends for our customers.
The majority of our product is ticketed with compare at pricing to demonstrate our pricing superiority against competition.
We do not employ high-low pricing strategies; instead, our everyday ticketed low price points offer superior value, enabling our customers to purchase multiple items per visit.
We do not rely on promotion-driven sales and instead seek to build our reputation through a steady stream of weekly in-store deliveries of the latest trends at great prices which drives word-of-mouth awareness and excitement in the neighborhoods we serve.
We merchandise our stores to create a specialty store environment that serves as a destination that meets the apparel and non-apparel needs of the entire family.
Every store offers a comprehensive selection of always-changing, curated products for men, women and children with a range of size options in each category.
In addition, we offer home goods and consumables.
We believe that our small-footprint stores, combined with a specialty store experience, friendly customer service where we often know our customers ’ names, and breadth of merchandise, distinguishes our stores from many competitors and creates an exciting and welcoming environment that encourages repeat visits from the local community.
We believe that our access to the African American customer drives vendor interest.
Many of our store associates live in the neighborhoods where our stores are located and frequently shop our stores themselves.
We have a long heritage of a diverse and inclusive workplace; 91% of our store associates are African American or multicultural, and more than 90% of our store management positions are filled by women.
Compelling, Convenient and Cost-Effective Neighborhood Store Locations .
We locate our stores in high-traffic outdoor neighborhood shopping centers that are convenient primarily to African American families.
We believe that these neighborhood locations are difficult to duplicate, creating a competitive moat for our brand.
We generally utilize previously occupied store sites in locations where we are often the brightest and cleanest store in the shopping center, which enables us to obtain attractive rents while establishing ourselves as neighborhood cornerstones.
Our management team plans and drives our growth strategy, which is based on our constant focus on providing trend-driven merchandise anchored in value to the mid to lower income African American populations.
Business Strategy With our focus on culturally-relevant fashion, exciting brands, and accessible pricing in each of our neighborhood locations, we believe that Citi Trends is in a unique position to serve our loyal customer base, with a long runway for comp sales growth, store unit growth and a motivated leadership team supported by a healthy balance sheet.
We have identified the following areas of focus to restore the Company ’ s financial performance and to maximize long-term growth: Offer Compelling Value Proposition .
Our three-tiered product strategy of opening prices, core value product and familiar brands, all focused on the wants and needs of our African American customers, differentiates our model while driving customer loyalty and repeat visits.
We offer a balanced assortment of good, better and best products that resonates with our customer base across income levels.
We highlight our opening price point offerings consistently across departments, ensuring our value-conscious customers can easily identify these options.
We are one of the largest national retailers focused on African American customers.
The income capacity of our two most frequent tiers of customers is the biggest realization from our recent research, qualifying the previous assumption that our entire customer base was in the low-income category.
We believe that this refined understanding of our customer will strengthen our ability to predict their wants and needs, driving increased traffic and conversion in our stores.

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