Petco Health and Wellness Company, Inc. (WOOF)
Pet stores and services, 29,000 partners. Read October 3, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending January 31, 2026, filed March 13, 2026. Ranked 18 of the 75 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
23%
End of 2028
31%
Employees, annual report
29,000
Leading staffing pattern
Other Miscellaneous Retailers
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now23%
- End of 202729%
- End of 202831%
- End of 203031%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 68%
- Becomes checking a model's work 19%
- Handed over with lighter checks 12%
The filing states the total and the store count, so the store share is by count (a) and the remainder is read as distribution by description (c).
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 23% now, 29% at the end of 2027, 31% at the end of 2028, 31% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 31% desk work, 24% people work and 45% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 68% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 19% becomes checking a model's work and 12% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
29,000 employees as of January 31, 2026 (stated). Not stated; more than 1,500 pet care centers across the United States, Mexico and Puerto Rico.
The filing: “As of January 31, 2026, we had over 29,000 total partners. Our over 26,000 pet care center partners offer a level of customer engagement and content that is differentiated in retail and grounded in a true passion for pets.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Other Miscellaneous Retailers | 90% | Over 26,000 of over 29,000 partners work in the pet care centers, which BLS counts as pet and pet supplies stores among other miscellaneous retailers: by the filing's counts (a). |
| Warehousing and Storage | 10% | The remaining partners: seven primary and two regional distribution centers, with the support center inside the remainder; no count, so by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Over 29,000 partners, over 26,000 of them in pet care centers; none represented by labor unions; over 300,000 hours of training to pet care center partners in fiscal 2025; over 40% of store general manager and district manager openings filled internally.
What the filing says about AI
16 sentences in the filing name AI. Sixteen sentences, mostly risk factors: changes in search engines from AI, AI in cyber threats, and the company's own use of AI and the harm from managing it badly.
- “In addition, if there are changes in the usage and functioning of search engines or decreases in consumer use of search engines, for example, as a result of the continued development of AI technology, this could negatively impact our websites.”
- “Advances in computer capabilities, including as a result of artificial intelligence ("AI"), supercomputing, new technological discoveries, or other developments may result in the breach or compromise of the technology used or maintained by us to protect transactions or other sensitive data.”
- “We use artificial intelligence in our business, and challenges with properly managing its use could result in harm to our brand, reputation, business or customers, and adversely affect our results of operations.”
- “We are implementing the use of AI solutions, including machine learning and generative AI tools (both internal and external) that collect, aggregate, transcribe, and analyze data to assist in the development of our services and products and in the use of internal tools that support our business.”
- “AI algorithms are based on machine learning and predictive analytics, which can create accuracy issues, unintended biases, and discriminatory outcomes that could harm our brand, reputation, business, or customers.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 202310median 1
- Fiscal 202411median 4
- Fiscal 202516median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-31 | 29,000 | 2026-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2025-02-01 | 29,000 | 2025-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2024-02-03 | 29,000 | 2024-04-03 | 10-K |
| 2023-01-28 | 29,000 | 2023-03-28 | 10-K |
| 2022-01-29 | 28,495 | 2022-03-24 | 10-K |
| 2021-01-30 | 27,081 | 2021-04-05 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The collector's pick was the pet care center count (26,000); the total is the over 29,000 partners the filing states (rule 2).
- No count for distribution or the support center: the remainder is by description (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-106114, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
Questions about this company
- How much of Petco Health and Wellness Company, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 23% now and 31% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Petco Health and Wellness Company, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Petco Health and Wellness Company, Inc. employ?
- 29,000 as of January 31, 2026, as its annual report for the period ending January 31, 2026 states.
- What kinds of work make up Petco Health and Wellness Company, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Other Miscellaneous Retailers; by those patterns the work is about 31% desk work, 24% people work and 45% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Petco Health and Wellness Company, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 16 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 10, 11 and 16 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 3, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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