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| That helps us lean into both, we're strongest and also where we have the strongest ROI then based on that marketing investment |
| But we're seeing continued strength in overall fixed AOV, which hit a multiyear high for the second quarter in a row |
| So I feel confident that the performance of our national brands will similarly improve over time |
| I feel good about some of the initial results that we've seen from this increased focus in pricing science |
| Our leadership in personalization technology, combined with our passionate and skilled stylists continues to create an innovative and exciting way to shop |
| In the back half of the year, we expect gross margin to increase to between 44% and 45% as a result of the ongoing efforts to drive improvement in our inventory position and efficiencies in our transportation costs |
| And as we reimagine our experience and optimize our media investment, I'm confident that we'll be able to do that over the long-term |
| I'm already encouraged by the increase in revenue per active client that we've seen of recent, and now our opportunity remains to continue to improve our conversion metrics |
| And as I just noted previously, at Stitch Fix on Day Zero, we know our clients better than many retailers can aspire to know their customers over the course of their relationship |
| We believe the execution of these priorities will enable the company to return to sustainable, profitable growth |
| That optimized or reimagined experience is also one that helps us deepen the relationship with our existing clients as well, so that we can better understand how their style preferences, value orientation and fit changes over time, so that we can continue to keep our active and loyal clients for a longer tenure and generate even greater revenue from them |
| These actions contributed to our expanding gross margins year-over-year and will provide the opportunity for us to realize additional efficiencies in our operations |
| The amount of data that we have from our clients, both through the onboarding experience, as well as through our continued relationships with them, not only helps us develop some of the best private brand product on the market, but it's also information that we're able to work back with our national brands to continue to perform -- to continue to improve the performance of the buys that make with them |
| As Matt said, we continue to see strength in our newer client cohorts with both order value and fixed frequency up year-over-year for those clients |
| Extensive ongoing client feedback enables us to offer private brands that perform better and more profitably than our national brands |
| As I continue to immerse myself further in the business, my confidence in our future success, it continues to grow |
| And that's an extremely powerful differentiator and asset that we have |
| One that unlocks cost reductions from our operations, while also improving the client experience |
| So that gives me a lot of confidence |
| Overall, I am confident in our ability to maintain profitability today and I'm excited about the work we are doing to strengthen the foundation of our business and reimagine the client experience |
| All of the need states that we meet -- that we're able to satisfy so much better than many other retailers |
| We're doing a good job within video right now in terms of storytelling that calls out the unique differentiators of our business model and the manners in which we can uniquely serve clients relative to other retail options that might be at their disposal |
| Gross margin for the quarter was 43.4%, down 20 basis points quarter-over-quarter and up 250 basis points year-over-year, driven by strong product margins, improvement in inventory health, and transportation leverage |
| And as I mentioned in the prepared remarks, we're currently reimagining the onboarding experience so that we can continue to engage with both our perspective and our current clients to make it fun and easy so that they remain extremely confident in the service that we provide |
| Additionally, our 90-day revenue per active client had its third consecutive quarter of sequential growth |
| And we're really excited about that work and believe that it will attract and retain more of those high-value clients |
| Finally, we have a powerful value proposition that combines a strong network of stylists, carefully curated merchandise assortment and advance the data science and technology to create an experience that only Stitch Fix can deliver |
| We believe that these strategic priorities tied to strengthening our foundation and reimagining the client experience will lead to sustainable, profitable growth over time |
| It's a competitive strength and advantage for us and how that manifests through the experience, well, that needs to evolve |
| We're still very encouraged by the results we're seeing in the new clients we're acquiring that have higher order value and higher frequency |
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| For the full year, we are lowering our expectations for net revenue to reflect the current trends we are seeing in active clients |
| Q2 net revenue was $330 million, down 18% year-over-year and down 9% compared to last quarter Net Active clients ended the quarter down 6% compared to last quarter at approximately 2.8 million clients |
| Advertising was 7% of revenue in the quarter down 19% quarter-over-quarter due to our typical lower seasonal spending around the holidays |
| As expected, free cash flow was negative, $26.1 million in the quarter due to the timing of receipts related to our inventory purchases in Q1 |
| And second, as Matt mentioned in the earlier comments, client conversion was below our expectation, and we continue to have an opportunity there |
| And we had gross adds and reactivations that were down quarter-over-quarter |
| I think that's deterioration from the prior quarter's growth |
| Active client count was down about 17% year-on-year |
| Revenue per active client ended the quarter at $515, down 3% year-over-year, but up 2% quarter-over-quarter |
| First, Q2 is typically our softest quarter for active clients |
| In the back half of the year, we don't specifically guide to active clients, but we do expect the sequential decline in active clients to continue in the back half of the year |
| The trailing 12 months is still down |
| That are -- in many ways, disrupting others in the market today |
| The service that we offer at Stitch Fix, it solves many of those frustrations for the customer |
| We expect Q3 adjusted EBITDA will be between negative $5 million and breakeven |
| As is topical now, the physical retail experience, it remains extremely cumbersome |
| Really what we're seeing is a continued deceleration of the top line which seems like pretty much at odds with what you're saying about structurally improving the quality of the business, the client metrics you're seeing and heavier investment into marketing because you're seeing that working |
| And we're very mindful in terms of the retention and reactivation campaigns |
| And our work here is not done |
| Net inventory decreased 22% quarter-over-quarter as expected due to the front-loading of our inventory at the beginning of this fiscal year |
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