Company: SPWH
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-048890
Chunk: 58

Company: SPORTSMAN'S WAREHOUSE HOLDINGS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 58
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 investigations, fines, penalties, audits, inspections, and similar); litigation (including class-action claims); additional reporting requirements and/or oversight; bans on processing personal data; and orders to destroy or not use personal data. Any of these events could have a material adverse effect on our reputation, business, or financial condition, including but not limited to: loss of customers; inability to process personal data or to operate in certain jurisdictions; limited ability to develop or commercialize our products; expenditure of time and resources to defend any claim or inquiry; adverse publicity; or substantial changes to our business model or operations.

Our business depends on our ability to meet our labor needs and control our labor costs.

Our success depends in part upon our ability to attract, motivate and retain a sufficient number of qualified outfitters, including district managers, store managers, department managers and sales associates, who understand and appreciate our outdoor culture and are able to adequately represent this culture to our customers. Competition for non-entry level personnel, particularly for outfitters with retail experience, is highly competitive.  Additionally, our ability to maintain consistency in the quality of customer service in our stores is critical to our success.  Many of our store outfitters are in entry-level or part-time positions that historically have high rates of turnover, which can lead to increased training and retention costs and operational disruptions. We are also dependent on the outfitters who staff our distribution center, many of whom are skilled.  We may be unable to meet our labor needs and control our costs due to external factors such as the availability of a sufficient number of qualified persons in the work force of the markets in which we operate, competition, unemployment levels, demand for certain labor expertise, prevailing wage rates, wage inflation, changing demographics, health and other insurance costs and adoption of new or revised employment and labor laws and regulations.  If we are unable to hire, train and retain sales associates capable of consistently providing a high level of customer service, as demonstrated by their enthusiasm for our culture and knowledge of our merchandise, our business could be materially adversely affected. Although none of our outfitters are currently covered by collective bargaining agreements, our outfitters may elect to be represented by labor unions in the future, which could increase our labor costs. Additionally, competition for qualified outfitters could require us to pay higher wages to attract a sufficient number of outfitters. An inability to recruit and retain a sufficient number of qualified individuals in the future may delay the planned openings of new stores. Any such delays, any material increases in outfitter turnover rates at existing