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Related Party Agreements and Transactions | 12 Months Ended
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Related Party Transactions [Abstract] |
Related Party Agreements and Transactions | NOTE 11. RELATED PARTY AGREEMENTS AND TRANSACTIONS At the time of the Separation, ESL beneficially owned significant portions of both the Company’s and Sears Holdings’ outstanding shares of common stock and therefore, Sears Holdings, the Company’s former parent company, was considered a related party. On February 11, 2019, Transform Holdco acquired from Sears Holdings substantially all of the go-forward retail footprint and other assets and component businesses of Sears Holdings as a going concern. The Company believes that ESL holds a significant portion of the membership interests of Transform Holdco and therefore considers that entity to be a related party as well. In connection with and subsequent to the Separation, the Company entered into various agreements with Sears Holdings which, among other things, (i) governed specified aspects of the Company’s relationship following the Separation, especially with regards to the Lands’ End Shops at Sears, and (ii) established terms pursuant to which subsidiaries of Sears Holdings provided services to the Company. Some of these agreements were assumed by and assigned to Transform Holdco, none of which remain in effect or are material to the Company. Lands’ End Shops at Sears All Lands’ End Shops at Sears closed by January 31, 2020 and accordingly there was no rent or retail operation related party transactions with Sears Holdings or Transform Holdco in Fiscal 2021 and Fiscal 2020. Total rent, retail services and other costs related to Lands’ End Shops at Sears were $7.7 million in Fiscal 2019. Sourcing The Company contracted with a subsidiary of Sears Holdings, which became a subsidiary of Transform Holdco, to provide agreed upon buying agency services, on a non-exclusive basis, in foreign territories from where the Company purchases merchandise. These sourcing services, primarily based upon quantities purchased, included quality-control functions, regulatory compliance, product claims management and new vendor selection and setup assistance. The Company’s contract for these services expired on June 30, 2020. There was no expense from these sourcing services in Fiscal 2021, $2.2 million in Fiscal 2020 and $7.5 million in Fiscal 2019. These amounts were capitalized into inventory and expensed through cost of goods sold over the course of inventory turns and included in Cost of sales in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. Additionally, a final payment of $1.0 million was paid to the affiliate of Transform Holdco associated with the transitioning of a sourcing office in Fiscal 2020. This was recorded in Other expense (income), net in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. In anticipation of the expiration of the buying agency service agreement, the Company established a sourcing office located in Hong Kong which became operational in April 2020.

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