0001104659-22-094026.txt : 20221012 0001104659-22-094026.hdr.sgml : 20221012 20220824160553 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-22-094026 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 FILED AS OF DATE: 20220824 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001531152 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RETAIL-VARIETY STORES [5331] IRS NUMBER: 452936287 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0128 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 350 CAMPUS DRIVE CITY: MARLBOROUGH STATE: MA ZIP: 01752 BUSINESS PHONE: 774-512-7400 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 350 CAMPUS DRIVE CITY: MARLBOROUGH STATE: MA ZIP: 01752 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Beacon Holding Inc. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20110927 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm

 

 

August 24, 2022

 

Via EDGAR

 

Division of Corporation Finance

Office of Trade & Services

United States Securities and Exchange Commission

460 Fifth Street, NW

Washington, D.C. 20549-3561

Attn: Aamira Chaudhry
  Abe Friedman

 

  Re: BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc.
    Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended January 29, 2022
    Filed March 17, 2022
    File No. 001-38559

 

Dear Ms. Chaudhry and Mr. Friedman:

 

This letter is submitted on behalf of BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) in response to comments in the letter dated August 15, 2022 (the “Comment Letter”), from the Division of Corporation Finance Office of Trade & Services to Laura Felice, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, with respect to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 29, 2022, filed March 17, 2022. As indicated below, the Company intends to revise disclosure to address the matter raised in the Comment Letter in the Company’s forthcoming periodic reports, beginning with its quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended July 30, 2022, which is expected to be filed on or prior to August 26, 2022.

 

Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended January 29, 2022

 

Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures, page 34

 

1.             To avoid giving undue prominence to your non-GAAP results, please revise to present and discuss your Non-GAAP results after your discussion and analysis of GAAP results. Refer to Item 10(e)(1)(i)(A) of Regulation S-K and Question 102.10 of the staff’s Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations on Non-GAAP Financial Measures.

 

Response: In response to the Staff’s comment, the Company advises the Staff that it will revise its disclosure in future periodic filings in order to avoid giving undue prominence to our non-GAAP results.

 

 

 

Aamira Chaudhry and Abe Friedman

United States Securities and Exchange Commission

August 24, 2022

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If you have any questions or would like further information concerning the Company’s responses to your Comment Letter, please do not hesitate to contact me at (774) 512-7400 or by e-mail at lfelice@bjs.com.

 

  Sincerely,
   
  /s/ Laura L. Felice
  Laura L. Felice
  Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

 

cc: Graham Luce, Senior Vice President, General Counsel of BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc.
  John Mutkoski, Goodwin Procter LLP

 

 

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