TJX is committed under long-term leases related to its continuing operations for the rental of real estate and certain service contracts containing embedded leases, all of which are operating leases. Real estate leases represent virtually all of the Company’s store locations as well as some of its distribution and fulfillment centers and office space. Most of TJX’s leases in the U.S. and Canada are store operating leases, generally for an initial term of ten years with options to extend the lease term for one or more five year periods. Leases in Europe generally have an initial term of ten to fifteen years and leases in Australia generally have an initial term of ten years, some of which have options to extend. Some of the Company's leases have options to terminate prior to the lease expiration date. The exercise of both lease renewal and termination options is at the Company’s sole discretion, as opposed to the landlord’s discretion, and is not reasonably certain at lease commencement. The Company has deemed that the expense of store renovations makes the renewal of the next lease option reasonably certain to be exercised after these renovations occur.

While the overwhelming majority of leases have fixed payment schedules, some leases have variable lease payments based on market indices adjusted periodically for inflation, or include rental payments based on a percentage of retail sales over contractual levels. In addition, for real estate leases, TJX is generally required to pay insurance, real estate taxes and certain other expenses including common area maintenance based on a proportionate share of premises as compared to the shopping center, and some of these costs are based on a market index, primarily in Canada. For leases with these payments based on a market index, the initial lease payment amount is used in the calculation of the operating lease liability and corresponding operating lease ROU assets included on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Future payment changes to these market index rate leases are not reflected in the operating lease liability and are instead included in variable lease cost. Variable lease cost also includes variable operating expenses for third party service centers and dedicated transportation contracts that are deemed embedded leases. The operating lease ROU assets also includes any lease payments made in advance of the assets’ use and is reduced by lease incentives received. Lease expense for lease payments is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

The following table is a summary of the Company’s components of net lease cost for the fiscal years ended:


		Fiscal Year Ended
In millions	Classification	January 31, 2026		February 1, 2025		February 3, 2024
						(53 weeks)
Operating lease cost	Cost of sales, including buying and occupancy costs	$	2,196	$	2,101	$	2,015
Variable and short term lease cost	Cost of sales, including buying and occupancy costs	1,618		1,555		1,490
Total lease cost		$	3,814	$	3,656	$	3,505

Supplemental cash flow information related to leases is as follows:


	Fiscal Year Ended
In millions	January 31, 2026		February 1, 2025		February 3, 2024
					(53 weeks)
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
Operating cash flows paid for operating leases	$	2,214	$	2,116	$	2,030
Lease liabilities arising from obtaining right of use assets	$	2,243	$	2,140	$	2,055

The following table as of January 31, 2026 summarizes the maturity of lease liabilities under operating leases:


In millions
Fiscal Year:
2027	$	2,259
2028	2,123
2029	1,886
2030	1,609
2031	1,312
Later years	2,930
Total lease payments(a)	12,119
Less: imputed interest(b)	1,499
Total lease liabilities(c)	$	10,620