<SEC-DOCUMENT>0000745732-24-000030.txt : 20240529
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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000745732-24-000030
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	SD
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
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FILED AS OF DATE:		20240529
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20240528

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			ROSS STORES, INC.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000745732
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	RETAIL-FAMILY CLOTHING STORES [5651]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	07 Trade & Services
		IRS NUMBER:				941390387
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0203

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		SD
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-14678
		FILM NUMBER:		24993357

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		5130 HACIENDA DRIVE
		CITY:			DUBLIN
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94568
		BUSINESS PHONE:		9259654400

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		5130 HACIENDA DRIVE
		CITY:			DUBLIN
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94568

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	ROSS STORES INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703
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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="i815f222a208b4562bc5f1a76fcd86eb9_1"></div><div style="min-height:75pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:4.45pt;padding-left:4.85pt;padding-right:4.85pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:14pt;font-weight:700;line-height:115%">UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></div><div style="padding-left:5pt;padding-right:5pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:115%">Washington, D.C. 20549</font></div><div style="margin-top:0.15pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:4.92pt;padding-right:4.92pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:16pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Form SD</font></div><div style="margin-top:0.05pt;padding-left:4.92pt;padding-right:4.92pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Specialized Disclosure Report</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:4.87pt;padding-right:4.87pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:16pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">ROSS STORES, INC.</font></div><div style="margin-top:0.05pt;padding-left:4.97pt;padding-right:4.97pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt"><table 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Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:102%">0-14678</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="padding-left:20.8pt;padding-right:20.8pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:105%">(State or other jurisdiction</font></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="padding-left:22.02pt;padding-right:22.02pt;text-align:center;text-indent:-13.51pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:105%">(Commission</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="padding-left:20.8pt;padding-right:20.8pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:113%">of incorporation or organization)</font></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="padding-left:38.12pt;padding-right:38.12pt;text-align:center;text-indent:-13.51pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:113%">File Number)</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="9" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-top:5.7pt;padding-left:3pt;padding-right:3pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:108%">5130 Hacienda Drive, Dublin, California 94568-7579</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="9" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:102%">(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)</font></div></td></tr></table></div><div style="margin-top:0.2pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:4.55pt;padding-left:5.05pt;padding-right:5.05pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:115%">Ken Jew, Telephone&#58; (925) 965-4400</font></div><div style="padding-left:5.02pt;padding-right:5.02pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">(Name and telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact in connection with this report.)</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:15pt;padding-right:15.7pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Check the appropriate box to indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-top:0.05pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:97.899%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:4.080%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:93.720%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:right;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Wingdings',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#9745;</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="padding-left:4.05pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:114%">Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2023.</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:right"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Wingdings 2',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">&#9744;</font></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">&#160;&#160;Rule 13q-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13q-1) for the fiscal year ended _________.</font></div></td></tr></table></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:0.45pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:5.05pt;padding-right:5.05pt;text-align:center"><font><br></font></div><div style="height:14pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div><div id="i815f222a208b4562bc5f1a76fcd86eb9_4"></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:68pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-top:4pt;padding-left:14.95pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Section 1 &#8211; Conflict Minerals Disclosure</font></div><div style="margin-top:0.5pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:0.05pt;padding-left:15pt;padding-right:224.8pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:235%">Item 1.01 Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report Conflict Minerals Disclosure</font></div><div style="margin-top:0.2pt;padding-left:15pt;padding-right:1.05pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Ross Stores, Inc. (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) has prepared this Conflict Minerals Disclosure for calendar year 2023 in accordance with Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the &#8220;1934 Act&#8221;). Unless otherwise defined herein, please refer to Form SD and the 1934 Act Release No. 34-67716 for definitions of the terms used in this report.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:15pt;padding-right:5.2pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company conducted a Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry (&#8220;RCOI&#8221;) that was reasonably designed to determine whether, for products potentially involving a contract to manufacture (the Company does not manufacture any products), and where such products could contain conflict minerals that are necessary to their functionality or production, any of such conflict minerals originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country (which includes Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia) (together, the &#8220;Covered Countries&#8221;), or originated from recycled or scrap sources. Based on that inquiry, the Company determined that&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-top:0.05pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:0.05pt;padding-left:51pt;text-indent:-18.05pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.55pt">Those conflict minerals did not originate in the Covered Countries&#59; or</font></div><div style="margin-top:0.25pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:50.95pt;padding-right:9.65pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:132%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:132%;padding-left:14.5pt">The Company has no reason to believe that any necessary conflict minerals have originated in the Covered Countries.</font></div><div style="margin-top:0.15pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:0.05pt;padding-left:15pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Description of RCOI</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:4.55pt;padding-left:15pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company&#8217;s RCOI included&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-top:0.5pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:51pt;padding-right:7.95pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.5pt">Reviewing a list of its suppliers and products to identify merchandise the Company may have contracted to manufacture that may include conflict minerals that could be reasonably expected to be necessary to the functionality or production of the product&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-top:0.4pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:51pt;padding-right:5.7pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.5pt">Conducting a supply chain survey of identified suppliers and products, using the Responsible Minerals Initiative (&#8220;RMI&#8221;) Conflict Minerals Reporting Template, to identify conflict mineral sourcing information&#59; and</font></div><div style="margin-top:0.55pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:50.95pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.5pt">Evaluating and following up on information received.</font></div><div style="margin-top:0.45pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:14.95pt;padding-right:21.35pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">As a result of the measures and inquiries described above, the Company determined that none of the responses received reflected the use of conflict minerals from the Covered Countries, and no specific responses were noted that raised question regarding the validity of such responses. The Company is also not aware of any concerns associated with non-responding suppliers as relates to this determination.</font></div><div style="margin-top:0.1pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:0.05pt;padding-left:15pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company&#8217;s Conflict Minerals Disclosure is posted on its website, </font><font style="color:#0000ff;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">www.rossstores.com</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">.</font></div><div style="height:58pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div><div id="i815f222a208b4562bc5f1a76fcd86eb9_7"></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:68pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-top:4pt;padding-left:4.92pt;padding-right:4.92pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SIGNATURES</font></div><div style="margin-top:0.5pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:15pt;padding-right:1.05pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the duly authorized undersigned.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:0.45pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:23.360%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:98.900%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="padding-left:10pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:105%">ROSS STORES, INC.</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt 2px 11pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(Registrant)</font></td></tr></table></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:0.05pt;margin-top:0.4pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:96.823%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:34.138%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:17.153%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:45.409%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="padding-left:10pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:105%">Date&#58;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;May 29, 2024</font></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 3.9pt 2px 1pt;text-align:right;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">By&#58;</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="padding-left:1.25pt;padding-right:-6.5pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:105%;text-decoration:underline">&#160;&#47;s&#47;Ken Jew&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="padding-left:3.05pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Ken Jew</font></div><div style="padding-left:3.05pt;padding-right:9.05pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">Group Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary</font></div></td></tr></table></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="height:58pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div></body></html>
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