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Shoe Carnival, Inc..

SCVL.US | Retail sale of clothing, footwear and leather articles in specialized stores

Shoe Carnival, Inc. is a retailer of family footwear and accessories. The Company's stores carry an assortment of name brand and private label merchandise. The Company's product offerings include dress, casual and athletic shoes, sandals, boots, and accessories. The Company operates approximately 40...Show More

Ethical Profile

Mixed.

Shoe Carnival's ethical profile is mixed, with notable charitable contributions including over $1.4 million to the American Cancer Society in five years and $400,000 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in 2020. However, employee reports suggest concerns about health insurance benefits, citing high deductibles and limited vision care. On the technology front, Shoe Carnival implements standard security measures like the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, firewalls, and encryption. The company has no reported data breaches, patches critical vulnerabilities within 15-21 days, and offers multi-factor authentication for 50-60% of services. Despite these efforts, detailed information on ethical sourcing, worker respect, environmental impact, and animal welfare practices is largely unavailable, making a comprehensive assessment challenging.

Value Scores

Better Health for All-30
-100100
Fair Money & Economic Opportunity0
-100100
Fair Pay & Worker Respect0
-100100
Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing0
-100100
Honest & Fair Business0
-100100
Kind to Animals0
-100100
No War, No Weapons0
-100100
Planet-Friendly Business0
-100100
Respect for Cultures & Communities0
-100100
Safe & Smart Tech0
-100100
Zero Waste & Sustainable Products0
-100100

Better Health for All

-30

Shoe Carnival's core business of selling footwear and accessories is generally health-neutral. The company has a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics that requires employees to report violations and allows confidential and anonymous reporting to the Audit Committee or via a hotline.

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Shoe Carnival offers comprehensive health benefits to eligible associates, including medical, dental, and vision, and provides life and disability insurance to full-time associates.
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The company also supports the Two Ten Footwear Foundation, which provides crisis hardship relief, mental health counseling, and scholarships to footwear industry employees.
3
Shoe Station Group Foundation, Shoe Carnival's charitable trust, committed $1 million to Two Ten Footwear Foundation for 2026-2028, in addition to over $1 million previously contributed.
4
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Shoe Carnival implemented enhanced cleaning, social distancing reminders, provided associates with masks, gloves, and hand sanitizer, and conducted associate temperature checks.
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The company's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics states that confidential information, including personnel information, must be safeguarded from unauthorized access and not disclosed to systems capable of artificial intelligence and/or machine learning.
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Employee reviews indicate that health insurance can be pricey with high deductibles, and vision coverage has limited in-network options.
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Fair Money & Economic Opportunity

0

No evidence available to assess Shoe Carnival, Inc. on Fair Money & Economic Opportunity.

Fair Pay & Worker Respect

0

No evidence available to assess Shoe Carnival, Inc. on Fair Pay & Worker Respect.

Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing

0

No specific, quantitative data points regarding fair trade and ethical sourcing practices, such as fair-trade certification share, audit frequency, forced or child labor incidents, supply chain traceability, remediation speed, ethical clause coverage in supplier contracts, high-risk materials spend, or supplier diversity spend, were found in the provided articles.

1

Honest & Fair Business

0

No evidence available to assess Shoe Carnival, Inc. on Honest & Fair Business.

Kind to Animals

0

No specific, concrete, company-wide data points were found across the provided articles for any of the 'Kind to Animals' KPIs. Information regarding cruelty-free certifications, animal testing policies or volumes, humane certifications for operations, wildlife conservation impact, ethical input substitution percentages, supplier audits for welfare, cage-free sourcing, innovation investment in animal-free alternatives, animal agriculture ethics, animal-free R&D collaboration, or public policy engagement on animal welfare was not explicitly stated.

1
While some articles mention vegan products or general ethical business practices, these do not provide the specific quantitative or policy details required by the rubric for scoring.
2

No War, No Weapons

0

No specific, concrete data points were found in the provided articles to assess Shoe Carnival, Inc. against any of the KPIs for the 'No War, No Weapons' ethical value.

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The articles either explicitly stated no information was found for these metrics
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or pertained to a different company (Carnival Corp) and were therefore excluded.
3

Planet-Friendly Business

0

No specific quantitative data was found in the provided articles for any of the Planet-Friendly Business KPIs. The articles consistently state a lack of publicly available data on environmental metrics such as total greenhouse gas emissions, science-based targets, renewable energy usage, water withdrawal, green building certifications, waste diversion rates, or climate-related financial disclosures for Shoe Carnival, Inc.

1
Overall ESG or transparency scores from third-party analysts were noted but do not provide the specific, concrete data required for scoring individual KPIs.
2

Respect for Cultures & Communities

0

No specific, quantitative evidence was found across the provided articles to assess Shoe Carnival, Inc. against any of the defined KPIs for the 'Respect for Cultures & Communities' value. The articles primarily focus on financial performance, general company operations, employee demographics, or broad charitable giving without specific details relevant to cultural engagement, local community development percentages, or formal partnerships with indigenous groups. While some articles mention general charitable contributions, none specify donations to cultural heritage organizations as a percentage of revenue, nor do they provide data for any other KPI in the rubric.

Safe & Smart Tech

0

The provided articles do not contain specific quantitative data points required to score any of the KPIs for Safe & Smart Tech. While Article 1 mentions general security practices such as a risk-based cybersecurity framework guided by NIST, employee training, encryption, multi-factor authentication, penetration testing, and third-party assessments, it lacks specific metrics on the effectiveness, coverage, or frequency of these controls.

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For example, there is no data on the percentage of employees trained, the extent of data encryption, the availability of MFA across services, or the scope and frequency of security testing. Therefore, no KPIs can be scored based on the provided evidence.

Zero Waste & Sustainable Products

0

No evidence available to assess Shoe Carnival, Inc. on Zero Waste & Sustainable Products.

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