householding. To do so, mark the designated box on each proxy card for which you wish to discontinue receiving an Annual Report and proxy statement. If you are voting via the Internet
or by telephone, you can either follow the prompts when you vote or give instructions to discontinue duplicate mailings of future Annual Reports and proxy statements. Street name stockholders who wish to discontinue receiving duplicate mailings of
future Annual Reports should review the information provided in the proxy materials mailed to them by their bank or broker. If, now or in the future, you wish to receive a separate copy of the Annual Report or proxy statement, please notify us by
sending a written request to our Corporate Secretary at our principal executive offices, 5455 East High Street, Suite 111, Phoenix, Arizona 85054, and we will deliver a separate copy.
Attending the Annual Meeting
Due to the public health
impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and to protect the health and well-being of our team members, directors and stockholders, we will hold the Annual Meeting in a virtual meeting format only via the internet site
set forth above. Stockholders will not be able to attend the Annual Meeting physically.
To be admitted to the Annual Meeting webcast, stockholders
must enter the 16-digit voting control number found on their proxy card, voting instruction form or notice of internet availability of proxy materials. Once properly admitted, stockholders may listen to the
meeting, vote their shares and submit questions during the meeting through the meetings website. Questions that meet the boards guidelines will be addressed by the board or management during the meeting. Technical support will be
available to stockholders prior to and during the Annual Meeting by accessing the internet site set forth above.
We intend to return to in-person annual meetings in future years once the COVID-19 crisis passes.
Availability of our Filings with the SEC
Our 2020 Annual
Report to Stockholders, which was made available to stockholders with or preceding this proxy statement, contains financial and other information about our company, but is not incorporated into this proxy statement and is not to be considered a part
of these proxy materials or subject to Regulations 14A or 14C or to the liabilities of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act. The information contained in the Compensation Committee
Report and the Report of the Audit Committee shall not be deemed filed with the SEC or subject to Regulations 14A or 14C or to the liabilities of Section 18 of the Exchange Act.
Through our investor relations website, investors.sprouts.com, we make available free of charge all of our SEC filings, including our proxy
statements, our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and our Current Reports on Form 8-K, as well as
Form 3, Form 4 and Form 5 reports of our directors, officers, and principal stockholders, together with amendments to these reports filed or furnished pursuant to Sections 13(a), 15(d), or 16 of the Exchange Act. We will also provide upon written
request, without charge to each stockholder of record as of the record date, a copy of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2021 (referred to as the Form 10-K), as filed with the SEC. Any exhibits listed in the Form 10-K report also will be furnished upon request at the actual expense we incur in furnishing such
exhibits. Any such requests should be directed to our Corporate Secretary at our principal executive offices set forth in this proxy statement.
Other
Information
We report our results of operations on a 52- or
53-week fiscal year ending on the Sunday closest to December 31. Our last three completed fiscal years ended on December 30, 2018, December 29, 2019 and January 3, 2021. For ease of
reference, we identify our fiscal years in this proxy by reference to the calendar year ending closest to the last day of such fiscal year. For example, we refer to our fiscal years ended December 30, 2018, December 29, 2019 and
January 3, 2021 and our fiscal year ending January 2, 2022 as fiscal 2018, fiscal 2019, fiscal 2020 and fiscal 2021, respectively.
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