Shawn Nelson
Analyst · Roth Capital
Thank you, Rachel. Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us on our first conference call as a public company. It's an exciting time at Lovesac and as we continue to build the brand, grow our showrooms, digital presence, drive profitability and start to realize a significant potential we believe exists for this business.
I will begin today's call by discussing the highlights of our second-quarter results, after which I'll spend a few moments elaborating on what differentiates Lovesac; and Jack Krause, our President and COO will outline our key growth initiatives; and we'll turn it over to Donna Dellomo, our CFO, to review our financial results and a few items related to our outlook in more detail.
We're very pleased with our second-quarter financial performance. Net sales in the second quarter of this year we call fiscal 2019 increased 60.3% to $33.2 million from $20.7 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2018, which was last year. Comparable sales, which includes showroom and Internet sales, increased by 41%, driven by a strong showroom comp increase of 34.2% and growth of our Internet business of 71.3%.
Our second-quarter fiscal 2019 comparable sales were driven by transaction and ticket growth as we continue to attract both new and existing customers alike to Lovesac through our marketing strategies, e-commerce platform and showroom presence.
We opened 5 and remodeled 2 showrooms in the second quarter, and as of the end of the second quarter, operated a total of 72 Lovesac showrooms across the country, representing an increase of 16.1% versus the prior-year period.
Our first off-mall location, which is also our first New York City showroom in the Flatiron neighborhood, soft-opened to great customer reception in Q2, and we look forward to the full grand opening of the showroom next week. Our experience with showrooms continue to be very productive for us, inclusive of marketing costs.
We are also leveraging the strong foot traffic at Costco with these 10-day pop-up shops at 133 Costco locations operated during the second quarter alone, up from 27 locations in the prior-year period. These shop-in-shops provide us the opportunity to expand our brand reach to areas and customers that our showrooms don't necessarily cover, and we are very pleased with the results. Jack will discuss our strategy around showrooms and shop-in-shops further in a few moments.
Adjusted EBITDA was a loss of $1.9 million for the second quarter compared to a loss of $1.6 million in the prior-year period. Donna Dellomo, our CFO, will review our financials in more detail.
Lovesac has an attractive financial profile, especially considering our high growth rate, and we have delivered strong results over the last few years. In fiscal 2018, last year, top line grew just over 33% with the top-line momentum continuing in the first half of this year, fiscal '19, where we delivered 56% top-line growth and a nearly 35% total comparable sales increase.
Notably, adjusted EBITDA turned positive last year in fiscal year 2018. We are confident that we will continue to achieve high growth rates on total company net sales with expansion in EBITDA on an annual basis.
Our results in the second quarter and our performance to-date speak to the strength of our differentiated product and disruptive direct-to-consumer business model. We believe we are well positioned in an attractive industry where there is still room for real disruption. Our patent-protected, modular Sactionals and premium Sacs are Designed for Life, which means that our products are built to last a lifetime and designed to evolve with the customer in each phase of life, given the ease of adding new pieces and customizing the shape and aesthetics of their Sactionals. The cover for our -- the covers for our products are durable, washable and easily changeable given our expansive offering in a variety of fabrics and colors. We believe our products are very appealing to customers since they are easily shippable and delivered free right to their door within days, given our always-in-stock inventory as a result of our uniquely limited SKU counts required to service such a large selection.
We have also recently expanded into new design accessories, including fitted tables and drink holders, amongst others, and we have just announced our first foray into embedded technology with a modular-powered charging accessory, which gives our customer the opportunity to add new functionality to their existing Sactional and new customers to adopt it as well while keeping them on the platform and within our customer fold.
We're establishing a cadence of new product introductions that will make our core platforms more appealing to new customers and add more utility and stickiness to those already on the platforms.
We are environmentally conscious at Lovesac, and we are also pleased to report that we have already repurposed at least 4,200,000 plastic water bottles from the waste stream into the upholstery fabric of our Sactionals couches, which upholstery is now made from 100% recycled materials. We believe that we have diverted more than 46,000 couches from the landfill just year-to-date by selling consumers our Designed for Life Sactionals instead of traditional ones.
Another very important distinguishing attribute of Lovesac is the connection and loyalty we have with our customers. While our target customer is the millennial generation, Lovesac has a broad demographic appeal, and our passionate customer base is comprised of all ages. We connect with our customers in various ways, including traditional marketing and through our strong digital presence, which has an attractive and growing community of passionate followers on Facebook and Instagram, in addition to driving strong customer acquisition.
We see significant opportunity to continue to drive share gains within the growing total addressable market of the couches, chairs and seating segment of the overall furniture category, which represents nearly 31 billion in sales. Our unique, innovative and disruptive direct-to-consumer business model positions us well to capitalize on this substantial marketing opportunity and grow our current market share, which, by the way, currently is very small.
As we focus on driving share gains, we will remain flexible and continue to utilize our proven digital marketing strategies to continue to acquire new customers.
As disclosed in our prospectus, as what -- as of the end of fiscal year 2018, our customer lifetime value, or CLV, of roughly $1,200 far exceeded our customer acquisition cost, or CAC, of $283, and resulted in what we believe is a very attractive and reliable CLV-to-CAC ratio of approximately 4.4x.
Looking ahead, we are focused on leveraging our distinct competitive advantages to realize a significant growth potential that exists for Lovesac. Jack will now discuss our key growth priorities which are: expanding TV, direct mail and digital marketing; two, continuing to update existing showroom formats; three, opening more showrooms; four, extending brand reach with shop-in-shop business; five, continuing social media engagement with our customers.
Before I turn the call over to Jack, I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone on this call and everyone who contributed to our very successful public offering, initial public offering, in June. We are happy to have you in our #LovesacFamily. We also want to thank our passionate team members. It is the dedication of our talented team of people here and the disciplined execution of our strategy that has resulted in our success to date and will drive our success going forward.
We have an open runway of growth ahead of us, and we are focused on delivering against the many opportunities to grow our brands as we continue to deliver sustainable top- and bottom-line growth.
I will now turn the call over to Jack, our President and COO, to go over our key priorities in more detail.