Leases

12 Months Ended

Feb. 28, 2022

LEASE COMMITMENTS

Our leases primarily consist of operating and finance leases related to retail stores, office space, land and equipment. We also have stores subject to sale-leaseback transactions that do not qualify for sale accounting and are accounted for as financing obligations. For more information on these financing obligations see Note 13.

The initial term for real property leases is typically 5 to 20 years. For equipment leases, the initial term generally ranges from 3 to 8 years. Most leases include one or more options to renew, with renewal terms that can extend the lease term from 1 to 20 years or more. We include options to renew (or terminate) in our lease term, and as part of our right-of-use ("ROU") assets and lease liabilities, when it is reasonably certain that we will exercise that option.

ROU assets and the related lease liabilities are initially measured at the present value of future lease payments over the lease term. As most of our leases do not provide an implicit rate, we use our collateralized incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at the commencement date in determining the present value of future payments. We include variable lease payments in the initial measurement of ROU assets and lease liabilities only to the extent they depend on an index or rate. Changes in such indices or rates are accounted for in the period the change occurs, and do not result in the remeasurement of the ROU asset or liability. We are also responsible for payment of certain real estate taxes, insurance and other expenses on our leases. These amounts are generally considered to be variable and are not included in the measurement of the ROU asset and lease liability. We generally account for non-lease components, such as maintenance, separately from lease components. For certain equipment leases, we apply a portfolio approach to account for the lease assets and liabilities.

Our lease agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees or material restricted covenants. Leases with a term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the balance sheet; we recognize lease expense for these leases on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

The components of lease expense were as follows:


	Years Ended February 28 or 29
(In thousands)	2022		2021		2020
Operating lease cost (1)	$	75,629	$	57,325	$	57,656
Finance lease cost:
Depreciation of lease assets	13,230		8,362		5,769
Interest on lease liabilities	17,015		10,724		7,678
Total finance lease cost	30,245		19,086		13,447
Total lease cost	$	105,874	$	76,411	$	71,103

(1) Includes short-term leases and variable lease costs, which are immaterial.

Supplemental balance sheet information related to leases was as follows:


		As of February 28
(In thousands)	Classification	2022		2021
Assets:
Operating lease assets	Operating lease assets	$	537,357	$	431,652
Finance lease assets	Property and equipment, net (1)	127,183		109,665
Total lease assets		$	664,540	$	541,317
Liabilities:
Current:
Operating leases	Current portion of operating lease liabilities	$	44,197	$	30,953
Finance leases	Accrued expenses and other current liabilities	10,290		9,422
Long-term:
Operating leases	Operating lease liabilities, excluding current portion	523,269		423,618
Finance leases	Other liabilities	145,179		120,094
Total lease liabilities		$	722,935	$	584,087

(1) Finance lease assets are recorded net of accumulated depreciation of $30.7 million as of February 28, 2022 and $17.5 million as of February 28, 2021.

Lease term and discount rate information related to leases was as follows:


	As of February 28
Lease Term and Discount Rate	2022		2021
Weighted Average Remaining Lease Term (in years)
Operating leases	17.31		19.37
Finance leases	12.42		13.56

Weighted Average Discount Rate
Operating leases	4.80	%	5.36	%
Finance leases	14.35	%	15.09	%

Supplemental cash flow information related to leases was as follows:


	Years Ended February 28 or 29
(In thousands)	2022		2021		2020
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
Operating cash flows from operating leases	$	72,371	$	56,762	$	57,145
Operating cash flows from finance leases	$	11,194	$	8,517	$	4,027
Financing cash flows from finance leases	$	11,923	$	7,424	$	4,151

Lease assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations:
Operating leases	$	50,911	$	14,010	$	27,136
Finance leases	$	32,052	$	45,857	$	53,111

Maturities of lease liabilities were as follows:


	As of February 28, 2022
(In thousands)	Operating Leases (1)		Finance Leases (1)
Fiscal 2023	$	70,500	$	26,474
Fiscal 2024	69,983		32,059
Fiscal 2025	69,475		28,830
Fiscal 2026	63,946		29,778
Fiscal 2027	57,050		25,427
Thereafter	571,431		191,876
Total lease payments	902,385		334,444
Less: interest	(334,919)		(178,975)
Present value of lease liabilities	$	567,466	$	155,469

(1) Lease payments exclude $43.9 million of legally binding minimum lease payments for leases signed but not yet commenced.