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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q/A

(Mark One)
QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2023
TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from _______ to _______

Commission file number: 001-38839

Shift Technologies, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware82-5325852
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)(IRS Employer Identification No.)
290 Division Street, Suite 400, San Francisco, California 94103-4893
(Address of principal executive offices)


Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (855) 575-6739
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act:

Title of each class
Trading
Symbol(s)
Name of each exchange on which registered
Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share
SFT
Nasdaq Capital Market

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act: None

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☒ No ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer”, “accelerated filer”, “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer
Accelerated filer
Non-accelerated filer
Smaller reporting company
Emerging growth company
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. ☐

If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b). ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No

As of May 16, 2023, the registrant had 16,956,933 shares of Class A common stock outstanding.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Shift Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”) is filing this Amendment No. 1 on Form 10-Q/A (the “Amendment”) to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three-month period ended March 31, 2023, which was originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on May 17, 2023 (the “Original Report”), for the sole purpose of amending Exhibits 31.1 and 31.2 (the "Exhibits") that were filed with the Original Report. The Exhibits were amended to include the required certifications of internal control over financial reporting in paragraph 4 of the Exhibits, which were omitted due to administrative oversight.

Except as described above, no other changes have been made to the Original Report and this Amendment does not modify or update disclosures in the Original Report and does not reflect subsequent events occurring after the date of the Original Report. Accordingly, this Amendment should be read in conjunction with the Original Report, which continues to speak as of the date of the Original Report, and the Company’s other filings with the SEC. The filing of this Amendment is not an admission that the Original Report, when filed, included any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make a statement not misleading.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

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CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Statements contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that reflect our current views with respect to future events and financial performance, business strategies, and expectations for our business constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Our forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our or our management’s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would,” “will,” “approximately,” “shall,” the negative of any of these and any similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.

Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include, but are not limited to:

general business and economic conditions and risks related to the larger automotive ecosystem, including, but not limited to, unemployment levels, consumer confidence, fuel prices, changes in the prices of used vehicles, and interest rates;
competition, and the ability of the Company to grow and manage growth profitably;
our history of losses and ability to achieve or maintain profitability in the future;
our ability to establish our software as a platform to be used by automotive dealers;
risks relating to our inspection, reconditioning and storage facilities;
impacts of COVID-19 and other pandemics;
our reliance on third-party carriers for transportation;
our current geographic concentration where we provide reconditioning services and store inventory;
cyber-attacks or other privacy or data security incidents;
the impact of copycat websites;
failure to adequately protect our intellectual property, technology and confidential information;
our reliance on third-party service providers to provide financing;
the impact of federal and state laws related to financial services on our third-party service providers;
risks that impact the quality of our customers' experience, our reputation, or our brand;
changes in the prices of new and used vehicles;
our ability to correctly appraise and price vehicles;
access to desirable vehicle inventory;
our ability to expeditiously sell inventory;
our ability to expand product offerings;
risks that impact the affordability and availability of consumer credit;
changes in applicable laws and regulations and our ability to comply with applicable laws and regulations;
risks related to income taxes and examinations by tax authorities;
access to additional debt and equity capital;
ii

potential dilution resulting from future sales or issuances of our equity securities;
risks related to compliance with Nasdaq listing standards;
risks related to compliance with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act;
changes in government regulation of ecommerce;
changes in technology and consumer acceptance of such changes;
risks related to online payment methods;
risks related to our marketing and branding efforts;
our reliance on internet search engines, vehicle listing sites and social networking sites to help drive traffic to our website;
any restrictions on the sending of emails or messages or an inability to timely deliver such communications;
seasonal and other fluctuations in our quarterly results of operations;
changes in the auto industry and conditions affecting automotive manufacturers;
customers choosing not to shop online;
natural disasters, adverse weather events and other catastrophic events;
adequacy and availability of insurance coverage;
our dependence on key personnel;
increases in labor costs and compliance with labor laws;
our reliance on third-party technology and information systems;
our use of open-source software;
claims asserting that our employees, consultants or advisors have wrongfully used or disclosed alleged trade secrets of their current or former employers;
significant disruptions in service on our platform;
impairment charges;
our level of indebtedness, changes in interest rates, and our reliance on our Flooring Line of Credit with Ally Bank;
volatility in the price of our common stock;
issuances of our Class A common stock and future sales of our Class A common stock;
anti-takeover provisions under Delaware law;
risks related to our financial guidance and coverage by securities analysts;
our ability to establish and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting;
the effect of the announcement of the Restructuring Plan on our ability to retain and hire key personnel and maintain relationships with our customers, suppliers and others with whom we do business;

our ability to successfully realize the anticipated benefits of the Restructuring Plan;

our ability to successfully integrate Fair Dealer Services, LLC’s operations, technologies and employees;

iii

our ability to realize anticipated benefits and synergies of the Fair acquisition, including the expectation of enhancements to our products and services, greater revenue or growth opportunities, operating efficiencies and cost savings;

our ability to realize anticipated benefits and synergies of the CarLotz Merger, including the expectation of enhancements to our products and services, greater revenue or growth opportunities, operating efficiencies and cost savings;

our ability to ensure continued performance and market growth of the combined company’s business; and

other economic, business and/or competitive factors, risks and uncertainties, including those described in Part II, Item 1A. "Risk Factors.”

We do not undertake, and expressly disclaim, any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. We caution you not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this filing.
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Part I - Financial Information
1

ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)
SHIFT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
(unaudited)

As of March 31, 2023As of December 31, 2022
ASSETS  
Current assets:  
Cash and cash equivalents$58,784 $96,159 
Restricted cash, current7,907 10,632 
Marketable securities at fair value 1,264 
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $603 and $93
4,393 4,558 
Inventory34,019 40,925 
Prepaid expenses and other current assets6,257 7,657 
Operating and finance lease assets, property and equipment, accounts receivable, and other assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations12,749 17,226 
Total current assets124,109 178,421 
Restricted cash, non-current1,030 1,055 
Marketable securities at fair value, non-current 707 
Property and equipment, net2,012 6,797 
Operating lease assets28,366 44,568 
Finance lease assets, net112 152 
Capitalized website and internal use software costs, net9,633 10,657 
Goodwill2,070 2,070 
Deferred borrowing costs193 268 
Other non-current assets1,971 3,323 
Total assets$169,496 $248,018 
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable$14,280 $12,085 
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities23,136 33,872 
Operating lease liabilities, current5,490 8,865 
Finance lease liabilities, current50 271 
Flooring line of credit22,165 24,831 
Operating and finance lease liabilities and other liabilities associated with assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations18,159 15,432 
Total current liabilities83,280 95,356 
Long-term debt, net163,879 163,363 
Operating lease liabilities, non-current27,245 44,985
Finance lease liabilities, non-current1,496 3,989
Other non-current liabilities65 111 
Total liabilities275,965 307,804 
Commitments and contingencies (Note 10)
Stockholders’ deficit:
Preferred stock – par value $0.0001 per share; 1,000,000 shares authorized at March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively
  
Common stock – par value $0.0001 per share; 500,000,000 shares authorized at March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively; 17,227,910 and 17,212,130 shares issued and outstanding at March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively
2 2 
Additional paid-in capital554,379 552,968 
Accumulated other comprehensive loss (3)
Accumulated deficit(660,850)(612,753)
Total stockholders’ deficit(106,469)(59,786)
Total liabilities and stockholders’ deficit$169,496 $248,018 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
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Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
(unaudited)

Three Months Ended
March 31,
 20232022
Revenue  
Retail revenue, net$48,907 $183,081 
Other revenue, net1,652 8,712 
Wholesale vehicle revenue3,549 27,787 
Total revenue54,108 219,580 
Cost of sales50,944 208,792 
Gross profit3,164 10,788 
Operating expenses:
Selling, general and administrative expenses42,591 63,537 
Depreciation and amortization4,399 1,680 
Loss on impairment931  
Total operating expenses47,921 65,217 
Loss from operations(44,757)(54,429)
Interest and other expense, net(2,791)(2,578)
Loss before income taxes(47,548)(57,007)
Provision for income taxes55 41 
Net loss from continuing operations(47,603)(57,048)
Loss from discontinued operations494  
Net loss and comprehensive loss$(48,097)$(57,048)
Net loss and comprehensive loss per share, basic and diluted$(2.84)$(6.97)
Weighted-average number of shares outstanding used to compute net loss per share, basic and diluted16,920,600 8,182,525 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
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Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity (Deficit)
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
(unaudited)
Common StockAdditional
Paid in
Capital
Accumulated DeficitAccumulated Other Comprehensive LossTotal Stockholders’ Deficit
SharesAmount
Balance at December 31, 202217,212,130 $2 $552,968 $(612,753)$(3)$(59,786)
Vesting of early exercised options— — 14 — — 14 
Stock-based compensation— — 1,416 — — 1,416 
Issuance of common stock under stock-based compensation plans, net of shares exchanged for withholding tax15,780 — (19)— — (19)
Other comprehensive income, net of tax— — — — 3 3 
Net loss and comprehensive loss— — — (48,097)— (48,097)
Balance at March 31, 202317,227,910 $2 $554,379 $(660,850)$ $(106,469)

Common StockAdditional
Paid in
Capital
Accumulated DeficitAccumulated Other Comprehensive LossTotal Stockholders’ Equity
SharesAmount
Balance at December 31, 20218,136,931 $1 $515,982 $(440,711)$ $75,272 
Issuance of common stock upon exercise of vested options1,231 — 3 — — 3 
Repurchase of shares related to early exercised options(278)— — — — — 
Vesting of early exercised options— — 35 — — 35 
Stock-based compensation— — 4,517 — — 4,517 
Issuance of common stock under stock-based compensation plans, net of shares exchanged for withholding tax130,029 — (2,162)— — (2,162)
Net loss and comprehensive loss— — — (57,048)— (57,048)
Balance at March 31, 20228,267,913 $1 $518,375 $(497,759)$ $20,617 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

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Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(in thousands)
(unaudited)
Three Months Ended
March 31,
 20232022
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES  
Net loss$(48,097)$(57,048)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization4,447 2,019 
Stock-based compensation expense1,233 4,192 
Amortization of operating lease right-of-use assets3,388 2,162 
Contra-revenue associated with milestones601 159 
Amortization of debt discounts591 365 
Loss on impairment931  
Loss on disposal of long-lived assets3,460  
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable845 130 
Inventory6,379 (37,762)
Prepaid expenses and other current assets1,437 (2,179)
Other non-current assets101 (27)
Accounts payable1,934 (543)
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities(9,780)(6,243)
Operating lease liabilities(3,746)(1,925)
Other non-current liabilities(38)(1,670)
Net cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash used in operating activities(36,314)(98,370)
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES
Purchases of property and equipment(390)(1,444)
Proceeds from sale of property and equipment9  
Proceeds from sales of marketable securities806  
Proceeds from commutation of reinsurance contracts187  
Proceeds from sale of discontinued operations434  
Capitalized website internal-use software costs(1,991)(2,328)
Net cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash used in investing activities(945)(3,772)
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Proceeds from flooring line of credit facility33,229 126,903 
Repayment of flooring line of credit facility(35,895)(110,150)
Principal payments on finance leases(180) 
Proceeds from stock option exercises, including from early exercised options 3 
Payment of tax withheld for common stock issued under stock-based compensation plans(19)(2,162)
Repurchase of shares related to early exercised options(1)(10)
Net cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash provided by (used in) financing activities(2,866)14,584 
Net decrease in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash(40,125)(87,558)
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, beginning of period107,846 194,341 
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, end of period$67,721 $106,783 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

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Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(in thousands)


Three Months Ended
March 31,
20232022
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION
Cash paid for interest$1,114 $496 
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF NON-CASH INVESTING AND FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Capital expenditures in accounts payable$ $534 
Vesting of exercised options14 35 
Stock-based compensation capitalized to internal-use software183 325 
Imputation of debt discounts reducing consideration transferred in business acquisitions2,103  
Establishment of lease right of use assets and lease liabilities
Operating lease right of use assets$ $27,855 
Operating lease liabilities 28,631 
Other assets 1,716 
Other liabilities 2,492 
Termination of lease right of use assets and lease liabilities
Operating lease right of use assets$11,884 $ 
Operating lease liabilities11,744  
Finance lease right of use assets4,660  
Finance lease liabilities4,746  
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

1. DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS
Shift Technologies, Inc., which, together with its subsidiaries we refer to as Shift, we, us, our, SFT, or the Company, conducts its business through its wholly owned subsidiaries. Shift Platform, Inc., formerly known as Shift Technologies, Inc. (“Legacy Shift”) was incorporated in the State of Delaware on December 9, 2013.
Shift Technologies, Inc. is a consumer-centric omnichannel retailer transforming the used car industry by leveraging its end-to-end ecommerce platform and retail locations to provide a technology-driven, hassle-free customer experience.
The Company currently is organized into two reportable segments: Retail and Wholesale. The Retail segment represents retail sales of used vehicles through the Company’s ecommerce platform and fees earned on sales of value-added products associated with those vehicles sales such as vehicle service contracts, guaranteed asset protection waiver coverage, prepaid maintenance plans, and appearance protection plans. The Wholesale segment represents sales of used vehicles through wholesale auctions or directly to a wholesaler (“DTW”).
2. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Basis of Presentation
Our unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”). Intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated. In the opinion of management, the interim condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments, which are normal and recurring in nature, necessary for fair financial statement presentation.
The interim condensed consolidated balance sheets as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the interim condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, condensed consolidated statements of stockholders' equity for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, and condensed consolidated statements of cash flows for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, and amounts relating to the interim periods included in the accompanying notes to the interim condensed consolidated financial statements are unaudited. The unaudited interim financial statements have been prepared on the same basis as the audited consolidated financial statements contained in the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, and in management’s opinion, reflect all adjustments, which are normal and recurring in nature, necessary for the fair financial statement presentation of the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2023, and its results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022 and cash flows for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022. The results for the three months ended March 31, 2023 are not necessarily indicative of the results expected for the fiscal year or any other periods. These interim financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related notes for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on March 31, 2023.
At the Company’s Special Meeting of Stockholders held on December 7, 2022, the Company’s stockholders approved a proposal to authorize a reverse stock split of the Company’s Class A common stock, at a ratio within the range of 1-for-5 to 1-for-10. The Board approved a 1-for-10 reverse split ratio, and on March 7, 2023, the Company filed a Certificate of Amendment to its Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Charter Amendment”) to effect the reverse split effective March 8, 2023. All share and per-share amounts have been retrospectively adjusted to reflect the impact of the reverse stock split.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of expenses during the reporting period. On an ongoing basis, the Company evaluates its estimates and assumptions, including those related to the valuation of vehicle inventory, capitalized website and internal-use software development costs, fair value of Class A common stock, financial instruments, convertible debt, stock-based compensation and income taxes.
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
Management bases its estimates on historical experience and various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ materially from those estimates.
Accounts Receivable
Accounts receivable are primarily due from auction facilities and partner financial institutions that provide financing to our customers.
The Company maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts that is calculated under the current expected credit loss (“CECL”) model. The CECL model applies to financial assets measured at amortized cost, and requires the Company to reflect expected credit losses over the remaining contractual term of the asset. As the large majority of the Company’s receivables settle within 30 days, the forecast period under the CECL model is a relatively short horizon. The Company uses an aging method to estimate allowances for doubtful accounts under the CECL model as the Company has determined that the aging method adequately reflects expected credit losses, as corroborated by historical loss rates.
Marketable Securities
The Company acquired equity and debt security investments as a result of the CarLotz Merger on December 9, 2022. Equity and debt securities are classified as Level 1 and Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy, respectively. Substantially all of the debt and equity securities were sold between December 31, 2022 and March 31, 2023 and $3 thousand was reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss for net losses on marketable securities.
Discontinued Operations
We review the presentation of planned business dispositions in the condensed consolidated financial statements based on the available information and events that have occurred. The review consists of evaluating whether the business meets the definition of a component for which the operations and cash flows are clearly distinguishable from the other components of the business, and if so, whether it is anticipated that after the disposal the cash flows of the component would be eliminated from continuing operations and whether the disposition represents a strategic shift that has a major effect on operations and financial results. In addition, we evaluate whether the business has met the criteria as a business held for sale. In order for a planned disposition to be classified as a business held for sale, the established criteria must be met as of the reporting date, including an active program to market the business and the expected disposition of the business within one year.
Planned business dispositions are presented as discontinued operations when all the criteria described above are met. For those divestitures that qualify as discontinued operations, all comparative periods presented are reclassified in the condensed consolidated balance sheets. Additionally, the results of operations of a discontinued operation are reclassified to income from discontinued operations, net of tax, for all periods presented in the condensed consolidated statements of operations. Results of discontinued operations include all revenues and expenses directly derived from such businesses; general corporate overhead is not allocated to discontinued operations.
Fair Value Measurements
Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. As such, fair value is a market-based measurement that should be determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability.
The authoritative guidance on fair value measurements establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy for disclosure of fair value measurements as follows:
Level 1 — Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
Level 2 — Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities, quoted prices in markets that are not active, or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
Level 3 — Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.
Assets and liabilities measured at fair value are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The Company’s assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires management to make judgments and consider factors specific to the asset or liability. The Company recognizes transfers between the levels as of the actual date of the event or change in circumstances that caused the transfer. There were no transfers between levels during the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022. As of March 31, 2023, the Company had less than $0.1 million in assets and liabilities, respectively, measured at fair value.
Escrow Shares
In connection with the closing of the Company's merger with Insurance Acquisition Corp. on October 13, 2020, (the "IAC Merger"), 600,021 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock (the “Escrow Shares”) were deposited into an escrow account, with each former Legacy Shift stockholder listed as beneficiary in proportion to their percentage ownership of Legacy Shift common shares immediately prior to the IAC Merger. The Escrow Shares will be released to the beneficiaries if the following conditions are achieved following October 13, 2020, the date of the closing of the IAC Merger:
i.If at any time during the 12 months following the closing, the closing share price of the Company’s Class A common stock is greater than $120.00 over any 20 trading days within any 30 trading day period, 50% of the Escrow Shares will be released.
ii.If at any time during the 30 months following the closing, the closing share price of the Company’s Class A common stock is greater than $150.00 over any 20 trading days within any 30 trading day period, 50% of the Escrow Shares will be released.
iii.If, during the 30 months following the closing, there is a change of control (as defined in the IAC Merger Agreement) that will result in the holders of the Company’s Class A common stock receiving a per share price equal to or in excess of $100.00 per share (as equitably adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, special cash dividends, reorganizations, combinations, recapitalizations and similar transactions affecting the Class A common stock after the date of the IAC Merger), then all remaining Escrow Shares shall be released to the Legacy Shift stockholders effective as of immediately prior to the consummation of such change of control.
The Escrow Shares are legally outstanding and the beneficiaries retain all voting, dividend and distribution rights applicable to the Company’s Class A common stock while the shares are in escrow. If the conditions for the release of the Escrow Shares are not met, the shares and any dividends or distributions arising therefrom shall be returned to the Company. The Escrow Shares are not considered outstanding for accounting purposes, and as such are excluded from the calculation of basic net loss per share (see Note 17 - Net Loss Per Share).
The Escrow Shares meet the accounting definition of a derivative financial instrument. Prior to the cancellation of the first tranche on October 13, 2021, the number of Escrow Shares that would have ultimately been released was partially dependent on variables (namely, the occurrence of a change in control) that are not valuation inputs to a “fixed for fixed” option or forward contract, and therefore the Escrow Shares were not considered to be indexed to the Company’s Class A common stock and were therefore classified as a liability. The Company’s obligation to release the Escrow Shares upon achievement of the milestones was initially recorded to financial instruments liability on the condensed consolidated balance sheets at fair value as of the date of the IAC Merger. Subsequent changes in the fair value of the liability were recorded to change in fair value of financial instruments on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
As of the first anniversary of the IAC Merger on October 13, 2021, the first tranche of 300,011 Escrow Shares had failed to satisfy the $120.00 stock performance hurdle. As a result, the shares were returned to the Company for cancellation.
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
Following the return of the first tranche of the Escrow Shares to the Company on October 13, 2021, the Escrow Shares met the "fixed for fixed" option or forward contract criteria for equity classification. As such, changes in fair value of the Escrow Shares through October 13, 2021 were recorded in change in fair value of financial instruments on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. The fair value of the shares on October 13, 2021 of $6.3 million, measured using the Monte Carlo valuation model, was reclassified to additional paid-in capital on the condensed consolidated balance sheets.
On April 13, 2023 the second tranche of 300,010 Escrow Shares failed to satisfy the applicable stock performance hurdle. As a result, the shares were returned to the Company for cancellation.
Liquidity and Management's Plan
For the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company generated negative cash flows from operations of approximately $36.3 million and $98.4 million, respectively, and generated net losses of approximately $48.1 million and $57.0 million, respectively. As of March 31, 2023, the Company had unrestricted cash and cash equivalents of $58.8 million and total working capital of $40.8 million. Since inception, the Company has had negative cash flows and losses from operations which it has funded primarily through issuances of common and preferred stock and through a reverse recapitalization via the IAC Merger in October 2020. The Company has historically funded vehicle inventory purchases through its vehicle floorplan facilities (see Note 9 - Borrowings). The Company's current floorplan facility expires on December 9, 2023. The Company also continually assesses other opportunities to raise debt or equity capital.
The Company's plan is to raise capital to provide the liquidity necessary to satisfy its obligations over the next twelve months, and to secure a new or amended floorplan financing arrangement to provide continuity when the current floorplan expires. The Company may also pursue other strategic alternatives. The Company's ability to raise capital may be constrained by the price of and demand for the Company's Class A common stock. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to raise sufficient additional capital or obtain financing that will provide it with sufficient liquidity to satisfy its obligations over the next twelve months.
The Company continues to focus its strategy on improving unit economics and reducing selling, general, and administrative expenses and seeks to achieve these goals by eliminating less profitable fulfillment channels, consolidating operations into fewer physical locations, and reducing headcount accordingly. Please see Note 15 - Impairment, Restructuring and Discontinued Operations for additional information.
In accordance with Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-15, Disclosure of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern (Subtopic 205-40), the Company has evaluated whether there are conditions and events, considered in the aggregate, that raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date that the condensed consolidated financial statements are issued. Management determined as a result of this evaluation, the Company’s losses and negative cash flows from operations since inception, combined with its current cash, working capital position, and expiration of the current floorplan financing arrangement on December 9, 2023, raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
The condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a basis that assumes the Company will continue as a going concern which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities and commitments in the ordinary course of business. Accordingly, the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
Recently Adopted Accounting Standards
In June 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued guidance codified in Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") 2016-13, Financial instruments — Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments ("ASU 2016-13"), and subsequent related ASUs, which amends the guidance on the impairment of financial instruments by requiring measurement and recognition of expected credit losses for financial assets held. This ASU is effective for public and private companies’ fiscal years, and for interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2019, and December 15, 2022, respectively. The Company adopted ASU 2016-13 under the private company transition guidance beginning January 1, 2023. The adoption did not materially impact the Company's condensed consolidated financial statements.

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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
3. BUSINESS COMBINATIONS
Fair Dealer Services, LLC
On May 11, 2022, the Company completed the acquisition of certain automotive dealer marketplace assets and all of the issued and outstanding limited liability company interests of Fair Dealer Services, LLC (“Fair”), (collectively, the “Marketplace Assets”), from Fair Financial Corp., Fair IP, LLC (“Fair IP”), and (for limited purposes) Cayman Project 2 Limited (“SB LL Holdco”), pursuant to the terms of the Amended and Restated Purchase Agreement dated May 11, 2022. The Company purchased the Marketplace Assets in order to acquire software and other assets to enable the listing of inventory owned by third-party dealerships for sale on the Company’s ecommerce platform. The Company determined that the Marketplace Assets meet the definition of a business, and the purchase is properly accounted for as a business combination.
The Company incurred a total of $3.3 million of transaction related costs for the year ended December 31, 2022. There were no transaction costs incurred during the three months ended March 31, 2023 or 2022.
The consideration for the Marketplace Assets consisted of cash in the amount of $15.0 million (the “Cash Consideration”) and 206,698 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock (such shares being equal to 2.5% of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s Class A common stock as of immediately prior to the closing of the transactions contemplated by the Amended and Restated Purchase Agreement) (the “Stock Consideration”). The shares were issued and valued as of May 11, 2022 at a per share market closing price of $10.20.
The Company financed the acquisition of the Marketplace Assets through the issuance of the Senior Unsecured Notes to SB LL Holdco (see Note 9 - Borrowings). The stated interest rate on the Senior Unsecured Notes was determined to be below the market rate of interest, effectively providing a discount on the purchase price of the Marketplace Assets. Therefore, the Company recognized an imputed discount of $2.1 million on the Senior Unsecured Notes based on an estimated market rate of interest of 10.5%, and a corresponding reduction to the consideration transferred for the purchase of the Marketplace Assets.
The following table presents an estimate of consideration transferred:
(In thousands)
Cash consideration$15,000 
Fair value of shares of Shift Class A common stock issued2,481 
Allocation of proceeds from Senior Unsecured Notes(2,103)
Acquisition Consideration$15,378 
The intangible assets acquired were recorded at their fair values as of the acquisition date. Management estimated the fair value of intangible assets in accordance with the applicable accounting guidance for business combinations and utilized the services of third-party valuation consultants. The initial allocation of the consideration transferred is based on a preliminary valuation and is subject to adjustments. Balances subject to adjustment primarily include the valuations of acquired assets and tax-related matters. During the measurement period, the Company may record adjustments to the provisional amounts recognized.
Estimated Fair Value
Capitalized website and internal use software costs$12,500 
Other intangible assets - Trade name100 
Other intangible assets - Dealer network100 
Prepaid expenses and other current assets154 
Goodwill2,524 
Total fair value of purchase price$15,378 

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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
Identifiable Intangible Assets
The Company acquired intangible assets that consisted primarily of developed software, which had an estimated fair value of $12.5 million, and which is included in capitalized website and internal use software costs, net on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. The Company also acquired other intangible assets with a total estimated fair value of $0.2 million. The Cost to Recreate Method was used to value the acquired developed software asset. Management applied judgment in estimating the fair value of this intangible asset, which involved the use of significant assumptions such as the cost and time to build the acquired technology, developer’s profit and rate of return. The other intangible assets are included in other non-current assets on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. The Company began amortizing the intangible assets on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives of three years for the capitalized internal use software and trade name, and one year for the dealer network. During the fourth quarter of 2022, the Company fully impaired these assets.
Goodwill
The goodwill represents the excess of consideration transferred over the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed and is attributable to the benefits expected from combining the Company’s expertise with Fair’s technology, resource base, and ability to effectively integrate the Marketplace Assets with the Company's existing ecommerce platform. This goodwill is not deductible for income tax purposes.
Pro forma information (unaudited)
The unaudited pro forma results presented below include the effects of the Fair acquisition as if it had been consummated as of January 1, 2021, with adjustments to give effect to pro forma events that are directly attributable to the acquisition which includes adjustments related to the amortization of acquired intangible assets. The unaudited pro forma results do not reflect any operating efficiency or potential cost savings which may result from the integration of Fair. Accordingly, these unaudited pro forma results are presented for informational purposes only and are not necessarily indicative of what the actual results of operation of the combined company would have been if the acquisition had occurred as of January 1, 2021.
Three Months Ended March 31, 2022
Revenue$219,580 
Loss from operations(59,240)
Net loss$(62,196)
Net loss per share, basic and diluted$(7.69)
Weighted-average number of shares outstanding used to compute net loss per share, basic and diluted8,089,211 
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
CarLotz, Inc.
On December 9, 2022, the Company completed the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding equity interests of CarLotz, Inc. (“CarLotz”), a Delaware corporation, pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the "CarLotz Merger") dated as of August 9, 2022 (the “Merger Agreement”). The CarLotz Merger increased the liquidity available to the combined entity by adding the cash resources of legacy CarLotz to the combined entity and obviating the need for legacy CarLotz to invest in technologies already developed by Shift. The Company determined that the CarLotz Merger is properly accounted for as a business combination.
During the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Company incurred an additional $0.1 million of transaction related costs for a total of $16.3 million since the date of acquisition, which are included in selling, general and administrative expenses on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
The following table presents an estimate of Merger Consideration transferred to effect the CarLotz Merger at Closing:
(In thousands)
Fair value of shares of Shift Class A common stock issued to CarLotz stockholders$22,411 
Replacement of CarLotz equity awards562 
Merger Consideration$22,973 
The fair value of shares of Shift Class A common stock issued as Merger Consideration was based on approximately 8.6 million shares of Shift Class A common stock, including 0.1 million shares issued pursuant to accelerated vesting of certain CarLotz RSU Awards in connection with the CarLotz Merger, and the closing price of Shift Class A common stock of $2.62 per share on December 9, 2022.
Consideration transferred was allocated to the tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on their fair values as of the acquisition date. Management estimated the fair value of tangible and intangible assets and liabilities in accordance with the applicable accounting guidance for business combinations and utilized the services of third-party valuation consultants. The initial allocation of the consideration transferred is based on a preliminary valuation and is subject to adjustments. Balances subject to adjustment primarily include the valuations of acquired assets (tangible and intangible), liabilities assumed, as well as tax-related matters. During the measurement period, the Company may record adjustments to the provisional amounts recognized. The allocation of the consideration transferred will be finalized within the measurement period (up to one year from the acquisition date).
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
Estimated Fair Value
Cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities$97,710 
Accounts receivable3,321 
Inventory7,062 
Other current assets1,756 
Property and equipment7,009 
Operating lease right of use assets25,119 
Finance lease right of use assets4,176 
Developed technology3,190 
Trademarks970 
Other non-current assets364 
Total assets150,677 
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities(11,899)
Operating lease liabilities, current(4,127)
Finance lease liabilities, current(273)
Other current liabilities(694)
Operating lease liabilities (24,713)
Finance lease liabilities(8,940)
Other non-current liabilities(373)
Total liabilities(51,019)
Net assets acquired99,658 
Gain on Bargain purchase$(76,685)
Consideration transferred$22,973 
Identifiable Intangible Assets
The fair value of the trademarks and developed technology intangible assets has been determined using the relief-from-royalty method, which involves the estimation of an amount of hypothetical royalty savings enjoyed by the entity that owns the intangible asset because that entity is relieved from having to license that intangible asset from another owner. In using this method, third-party arm’s-length royalty or license agreements were analyzed. The licensing transactions were selected as reflecting similar risks and characteristics that make them comparable to the subject assets. The net revenue expected to be generated by the intangible asset during its expected remaining life was then multiplied by the selected royalty rate. The selected estimated royalty rates for the trademarks and developed technology were 0.3% and 1.5%, respectively. The estimated after-tax royalty streams were then discounted to present value using a discount rate of 19.4%, to estimate the fair value of the subject intangible assets.
The trademarks are included in other non-current assets on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. The developed technology is included in capitalized website and internal use software costs, net on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. The Company fully amortized the intangible assets on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives of three months, as the Company is decommissioning the acquired intangible assets in favor of equivalent legacy Shift assets.
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
Bargain Purchase
Any excess of fair value of acquired net assets over the purchase price (negative goodwill) has been recognized as a gain in the period the acquisition was completed. We have reassessed whether all acquired assets and assumed liabilities have been identified and recognized and performed remeasurements to verify that the consideration paid, assets acquired, and liabilities assumed have been properly valued. The remaining excess has been recognized as a gain in the consolidated statement of operations. Factors believed to contribute to the bargain purchase include i) the management turnover, restructuring, and other indicators of distress experienced by CarLotz prior to the CarLotz Merger, ii) successful cash conservation efforts by CarLotz during the period from the execution of the CarLotz Merger Agreement to the closing of the merger, and iii) a significant decline in the market price of the Company's Class A common stock during the period from the execution of the Merger Agreement to the closing of the merger, which reduced the fair market value of the stock paid as consideration for the merger.
Pro forma information (unaudited)
The unaudited pro forma results presented below include the effects of the CarLotz Merger as if it had been consummated as of January 1, 2021, with adjustments to give effect to pro forma events that are directly attributable to the acquisition. For the three months ended March 31, 2023, the pro forma adjustments include a reduction in stock-based compensation costs to reflect expected amortization of assumed equity awards and a reduction in amortization expense to reflect the revaluation of certain technology assets. For the three months ended March 31, 2022, the pro forma adjustments include a reduction in stock-based compensation expense to reflect expected amortization of assumed equity awards, non-recurring transaction costs, and a gain on bargain purchase.
The unaudited pro forma results do not reflect any operating efficiency or potential cost savings which may result from the integration of CarLotz. Accordingly, these unaudited pro forma results are presented for informational purposes only and are not necessarily indicative of what the actual results of operation of the combined company would have been if the acquisition had occurred as of January 1, 2021.
Three Months Ended March 31, 2022
Revenue$282,594 
Loss from operations(81,919)
Net loss$(80,305)
Net loss per share, basic and diluted$(4.88)
Weighted-average number of shares outstanding used to compute net loss per share, basic and diluted16,472,676 


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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
4. PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET
Property and equipment, net consists of the following (in thousands):
As of March 31, 2023As of December 31, 2022
Equipment$3,841 $4,545 
Furniture and fixtures332 1,278 
Leasehold improvements929 4,334 
Total property and equipment5,102 10,157 
Less: accumulated depreciation(3,090)(3,360)
Property and equipment, net$2,012 $6,797 
Depreciation expense related to property and equipment was $0.5 million and $0.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Depreciation expense related to reconditioning facilities for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022 was less than $0.1 million and $0.3 million, respectively. Depreciation expense related to reconditioning facilities is included in cost of sales with the remainder included in depreciation and amortization in the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
We classified $2.4 million and $0.2 million of gross property and equipment and accumulated depreciation, respectively, as held-for-sale at March 31, 2023. In addition, the Company recognized an impairment charge that was partly allocated to property and equipment. See Note 15 - Impairment, Restructuring and Discontinued Operations for additional information.
5. LEASES
The Company is a tenant under various operating and finance leases with third parties, including leases of office facilities, vehicle inspection, reconditioning locations, storage locations, and vehicle leases. The Company assesses whether each lease is an operating or finance lease at the lease commencement date.
The Company’s real estate leases often require it to make payments for maintenance in addition to rent as well as payments for real estate taxes, and insurance. Maintenance, real estate taxes, and insurance payments are generally variable costs which are based on actual expenses incurred by the lessor. Therefore, these amounts are generally not included in the consideration of the contract when determining the right-of-use asset and lease liability, but are reflected as variable lease expenses in the period incurred.
Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets and expense for these leases are recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
As the rate implicit in the lease is generally not readily determinable for the Company’s operating leases, the discount rates used to determine the present value of the Company’s lease liabilities are based on the Company’s incremental borrowing rate at the lease commencement date and commensurate with the remaining lease term. The incremental borrowing rate for a lease is the rate of interest the Company would have to pay to borrow on a collateralized basis over a similar term for an amount equal to the lease payments in a similar economic environment. The Company uses its incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at commencement date in determining the present value of lease payments.
The Company recognized a loss on impairment of operating lease right of use assets of $0.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023. There was no loss on impairment of operating lease right of use assets for the three months ended March 31, 2022.
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
The balance sheet classification of leases is as follows (in thousands):

Balance Sheet ClassificationMarch 31, 2023December 31, 2022
Assets
Operating leasesOperating lease assets$28,366 $44,568 
Operating and finance lease assets, property and equipment, accounts receivable, and other assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations9,706 9,572 
Finance leasesFinance lease assets, net112 152 
Operating and finance lease assets, property and equipment, accounts receivable, and other assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations180 4,155 
Total lease assets$38,364 $58,447 
Liabilities
Operating leasesOperating lease liabilities, current$5,490 $8,865 
Operating and finance lease liabilities and other liabilities associated with assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations14,918 10,138 
Operating lease liabilities, non-current27,245 44,985 
Total operating lease liabilities$47,653 $63,988 
Finance leasesFinance lease liabilities, current$50 $271 
Operating and finance lease liabilities and other liabilities associated with assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations2,824 5,036 
Finance lease liabilities, non-current1,496 3,989 
Total finance lease liabilities$4,370 $9,296 
Total lease liabilities$52,023 $73,284 
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
The Company’s lease costs and activity were as follows (in thousands):

Three Months Ended March 31,
20232022
Lease cost
Operating lease cost$9,241 $2,162 
Finance lease amortization86  
Finance lease interest109  
Short-term lease cost168 832 
Variable lease cost455 185 
Sublease income(241) 
Total lease cost$9,818 $3,179 
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of operating lease liabilities
Operating leases - Operating cash flows$3,746 $1,925 
Finance leases - Operating cash flows$731 $ 
Finance leases - Financing cash flows$180 $ 
Lease assets derecognized with the sale of lease liabilities
Operating leases$11,884 $ 
Finance leases$4,660 $ 
Weighted average remaining lease term - operating leases (in years)5.655.14
Weighted average discount rate - operating leases8.53 %7.30 %
Weighted average remaining lease term - finance leases (in years)6.03— 
Weighted average discount rate - finance leases11.10 % %
Leases have remaining terms of 1 year to 13 years. There are no options that are reasonably certain to be exercised. Sublease income is derived from two subleases as of March 31, 2023
Operating and finance lease liabilities by maturity date from March 31, 2023 were as follows (in thousands):
Year ended December 31,Operating LeasesFinance
Leases
2023$9,198 $592 
202410,860 693 
20259,456 708 
20269,339 724 
20279,353 680 
Thereafter13,935 4,091 
Total minimum lease payments$62,141 $7,488 
Less: Imputed interest14,488 3,118 
Total lease liabilities$47,653 $4,370 

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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
As of December 31, 2022, the Company guaranteed the lease obligation of two of its closed locations assigned to a third-party that operates a used vehicle dealership. The Company continues as guarantor of such lease obligations with maximum total payments of $4,669 and will continue as the guarantor of one of the leases through March 2031 and the other lease through September 2031. The Company would be required to perform under the guarantee if the third-party is in default. As of March 31, 2023, the Company does not anticipate any material defaults under the forgoing leases, and therefore, no liability has been accrued.
6. CAPITALIZED WEBSITE AND INTERNAL-USE SOFTWARE COSTS, NET
Capitalized website and internal use software costs, net consists of the following (in thousands):
 As of March 31, 2023As of December 31, 2022
Capitalized website domain costs – nonamortizable$385 $385 
Capitalized website and internal-use software development costs – amortizable14,280 12,294 
Less: accumulated amortization(5,032)(2,022)
Capitalized website and internal-use software development costs, net$9,633 $10,657 
Amortization of capitalized software development costs is included in depreciation and amortization in the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. Amortization of capitalized software development costs amounted to $3.2 million and $1.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
As of March 31, 2023, the remaining weighted-average amortization period for internal-use capitalized software intangible assets was approximately 1.24 years.
The expected annual amortization expense to be recognized in future years as of March 31, 2023 consists of the following (in thousands):
As of March 31, 2023
2023$1,871 
20242,488 
20251,382 
202658 
Development in progress3,449 
Total amortizable costs9,248 
Nonamortizable costs385 
Total capitalized website and internal-use software development costs$9,633 
The Company recognized an impairment charge that was partly allocated to internal-use capitalized software at December 31, 2022. See Note 15 - Impairment, Restructuring and Discontinued Operations for additional information.
7. GOODWILL
On May 11, 2022 the Company acquired the Marketplace Assets for consideration totaling $15.4 million (see Note 3 - Business Combinations). The purchase price was allocated to tangible assets of $0.2 million and intangible assets of $12.7 million based on their fair values on the acquisition date. Goodwill represents the excess purchase price over the fair value of the net assets acquired. The excess of the purchase price over the amounts allocated to assets acquired was recorded to Goodwill, in the amount of $2.5 million, which was included in the retail segment.
Goodwill is not amortized but is tested at least annually or more frequently when events or circumstances change that would, more likely than not, reduce the fair value of a reporting unit below its carrying amount. The Company first assesses qualitative factors to determine if it is not more likely than not that the fair value of its reporting unit is less than its carrying amount.
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

During the three months ended March 31, 2023, there were no impairments or other changes in the carrying amount of goodwill. During the fourth fiscal quarter of 2022, management determined that indicators of impairment existed and performed a goodwill impairment test resulting in an impairment charge of $0.5 million. Management engaged third party valuation consultants to determine the fair value of the Retail segment (which also meets the definition of a reporting unit for goodwill impairment purposes). The fair value was determined using a market approach based on comparison to peer company valuation multiples.
8. ACCRUED EXPENSES AND OTHER CURRENT LIABILITIES
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consist of the following (in thousands):
 As of March 31, 2023As of December 31, 2022
Accrued payroll related costs$10,196 $14,048 
Provision for DMV refunds1,089 1,080 
Accrued sales taxes212 3,957 
Class A common stock subject to repurchase liability, current34 44 
Interest payable2,742 960 
Provision for sales returns and cancellations3,146 4,304 
Other accrued expenses5,717 9,479 
Total accrued expenses and other current liabilities$23,136 $33,872 
As of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, we classified $0.3 million and $0.1 million of accrued expenses associated with a long-lived asset disposal group as held-for-sale. See Note 15 - Impairment, Restructuring and Discontinued Operations for further information.
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
9. BORROWINGS
Senior Unsecured Notes
On May 11, 2022, in connection with the Fair acquisition (see Note 3 - Business Combinations), the Company entered into a Note Purchase Agreement (the “Note Purchase Agreement”) by and between the Company, each of the Company’s subsidiaries party thereto as guarantors (each, a “Guarantor” and, collectively, the “Guarantors”), and SB LL Holdco, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“SB LL Holdco”). Pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreement and the terms and conditions set forth therein, the Company agreed to issue and sell, and SB LL Holdco agreed to purchase, 6.00% Senior Unsecured Notes due May 11, 2025 with a principal amount of $20.0 million (the “Senior Unsecured Notes”) in a private placement in reliance on an exemption from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).
The Senior Unsecured Notes bear interest at a rate of 6.00% per annum and will mature on May 11, 2025. The Company may, at its option, prepay the Senior Unsecured Notes in their entirety (i) if prior to November 11, 2024, at 100% of the principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to (but excluding) such date and a premium specified therein, or (ii) if on or after November 11, 2024, at 100% of the principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to (but excluding) such date. The Senior Unsecured Notes are senior unsecured indebtedness of the Company.
As of March 31, 2023, discounts and deferred borrowing costs related to the Senior Unsecured Notes totaled $1.9 million and $0.2 million, respectively, and are included as a reduction to long-term debt, net on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. For the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Company had $0.3 million of contractual interest expense and $0.2 million of discount and deferred borrowing cost amortization, with both recorded to interest and other expense, net on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
The estimated fair value of the Senior Unsecured Notes (Level 2) as of March 31, 2023 was $17.1 million.
Convertible Notes
On May 27, 2021, the Company completed a private offering of its 4.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2026 (the “Notes”). The aggregate principal amount of the Notes sold in the offering was $150.0 million. The Notes are the Company’s senior unsecured obligations and will rank equally in right of payment with the Company’s future senior unsecured indebtedness, senior in right of payment to the Company’s future indebtedness that is expressly subordinated to the Notes and effectively subordinated to the Company’s future secured indebtedness, to the extent of the value of the collateral securing that indebtedness.
The Notes accrue interest payable semi-annually in arrears at a rate of 4.75% per year. The Notes will mature on May 15, 2026, unless earlier converted, redeemed or repurchased by the Company.
The Notes are convertible into shares of the Company’s Class A common stock at an initial conversion rate of 11.8654 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes (which is equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $84.28 per share of the Company’s Class A common stock). The initial conversion price represents a premium of approximately 27.47% over the last reported sale price of the Company’s Class A common stock on May 24, 2021, which was $66.10 per share. The conversion rate will be subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events prior to the maturity date. The Company will increase the conversion rate on a sliding scale to up to a maximum of 15.1284 per $1,000 principal amount for a holder who elects to convert its notes in connection with certain corporate events or the Company’s delivery of a notice of redemption, as the case may be, in certain circumstances.
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
Noteholders may convert their Notes at their option only in the following circumstances:
1.during any calendar quarter commencing after the calendar quarter ending on June 30, 2021, if the last reported sale price per share of our Class A common stock exceeds 130% of the conversion price for each of at least 20 trading days during the 30 consecutive trading days ending on, and including, the last trading day of the immediately preceding calendar quarter;
2.during the 5 consecutive business days immediately after any 10 consecutive trading day period (such 10 consecutive trading day period, the “measurement period”) in which the trading price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes for each trading day of the measurement period was less than 98% of the product of the last reported sale price per share of our Class A common stock on such trading day and the conversion rate on such trading day;
3.upon the occurrence of certain corporate events or distributions on our Class A common stock;
4.if we call such Notes for redemption; and
5.at any time from, and including, November 15, 2025 until the close of business on the second scheduled trading day immediately before the maturity date.
Conversions of the Notes will be settled in cash, shares of the Company's Class A common stock or a combination thereof, at the Company's election.
The Notes will be redeemable, in whole or in part (subject to a partial redemption limitation), at the Company’s option at any time, and from time to time, on or after May 20, 2024 and on or before the 40th scheduled trading day immediately before the maturity date, at a cash redemption price equal to the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date, but only if (i) the last reported sale price per share of the Company’s Class A common stock exceeds 130% of the conversion price on (1) each of at least 20 trading days, whether or not consecutive, during the 30 consecutive trading days ending on, and including, the trading day immediately before the date the Company sends the related redemption notice; and (2) the trading day immediately before the date the Company sends such notice; and (ii) a registration statement covering the resale of the shares of the Company’s Class A common stock, if any, issuable upon conversion of the Notes in connection with such optional redemption is effective and available for use and is expected, as of the date the redemption notice is sent, to remain effective and available during the period from, and including the date the redemption notice is sent to, and including, the business day immediately before the related redemption date, unless the Company elects cash settlement in respect of the conversions in connection with such optional redemption.
In addition, calling any Note for redemption will constitute a make-whole fundamental change with respect to that Note, in which case the conversion rate applicable to the conversion of that Note will be increased in certain circumstances if it is converted after it is called for redemption and on or prior to the business day immediately before the related redemption date. If the Company elects to redeem less than all of the outstanding Notes, at least $50.0 million aggregate principal amount of Notes must be outstanding and not subject to redemption as of the date the Company sends the related redemption notice.
Unamortized deferred borrowing costs at March 31, 2023 were $4.2 million, and are included as a reduction to long-term debt, net on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. For the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Company recorded $1.8 million of contractual interest expense and $0.3 million of deferred borrowing cost amortization, respectively. For the three months ended March 31, 2022, the Company recorded $2.1 million of contractual interest expense and $0.3 million, respectively, of deferred borrowing cost amortization. Contractual interest expense and deferred borrowing cost amortization was recorded to interest and other expense, net on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. The effective interest rate of the Notes is 5.73%.
The estimated fair value of the Notes (Level 2) at March 31, 2023 was $15.3 million.
The Company used a portion of the net proceeds from the sale of the notes to pay the cost of the Capped Call Transactions (see Note 11 - Stockholders' Deficit), and is using the remaining proceeds for working capital and general corporate purposes.
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
Ally Flooring Line of Credit
On December 9, 2021, the Company entered into a $100.0 million flooring line of credit facility with Ally Bank to finance its used vehicle inventory (the “Ally FLOC”), which is secured by substantially all of the Company’s assets. Borrowings under the Ally FLOC bear interest at the Prime Rate (as defined in the agreement) plus 1.50%.
Under the Ally FLOC, repayment of amounts drawn for the purchase of a vehicle should generally be made as soon as practicable after selling or otherwise disposing of the vehicles. Outstanding balances related to vehicles held in inventory for more than 180 days require monthly principal payments equal to 10% of the original principal amount of that vehicle until the remaining outstanding balance is 50% (or less) of the original principal balance. Prepayments may be made without incurring a premium or penalty. Additionally, the Company is permitted to make prepayments to the lender to be held as principal payments and subsequently reborrow such amounts.
The Ally FLOC requires the Company to maintain unrestricted cash and cash equivalents of not less than 20% of the total credit line, and to maintain an additional restricted cash balance equal to 10% of the total credit line. Additionally, the Ally FLOC requires the company to maintain at least 10% equity in the Company’s total inventory balance. As of March 31, 2023, the Company was in compliance with all covenants related to the Ally FLOC.
Additionally, the Company is required to pay an availability fee each calendar quarter if the average outstanding balance for such quarter is less than 50% of the average total credit line for such quarter. The Company was required to pay an upfront commitment fee upon execution of the Ally FLOC.
Effective as of February 7, 2023 (the “Effective Date”), the Company amended the Ally FLOC to (i) join the CarLotz Borrowers as borrowers under the Ally FLOC and terminate the inventory financing arrangement between the CarLotz Borrowers and the Ally Parties that was entered into prior to the Company’s acquisition of CarLotz, (ii) reduce the maximum available credit line under the Ally FLOC from $100 million to $75 million and (iii) require the Borrowers to make monthly principal reduction payments for each vehicle subject to the floor plan for more than 150 days rather than 180 days. In addition, effective February 1, 2023, the First Amendment increases the per annum interest rate applicable to Advances (as defined in the Ally Facility) to be equal to the prime rate designated from time to time by Ally Bank plus 175 basis points (from 150 basis points).
As of March 31, 2023, the interest rate on borrowings outstanding under the Ally FLOC was 9.50%. As of March 31, 2023, the Company had an outstanding balance under the facility of $22.2 million and $52.8 million of unused capacity. As of December 31, 2022, the Company had an outstanding balance under the facility of $24.8 million and $75.2 million in unused capacity.
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
10. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Litigation
The Company may be subject to legal proceedings and claims that arise in the ordinary course of business. Other than the matters discussed below, Management is not currently aware of any matters that will have a material effect on the financial position, results of operations, or cash flows of the Company.
Stifel matter
On May 7, 2021, we were named in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc. v. Shift Technologies, Inc. 21-cv-04135) by a former financial advisor, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc. (“Stifel”), claiming that we are required to pay the former financial advisor certain compensation as a result of the IAC Merger. In addition, the complaint seeks punitive damages as a result of alleged unjust enrichment for the amount of the benefits allegedly conferred on Shift by Stifel. On August 24, 2022, Stifel's suit was dismissed with prejudice. On September 16, 2022, Stifel filed a Notice of Appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and formally filed its appeal with the Second Circuit on January 20, 2023. Shift filed its responsive pleading on April 20, 2023. Following the dismissal of Stifel's initial suit, the probable incurred losses related to the claim are immaterial as of March 31, 2023. Based on such information as is available to us, the range of additional reasonably possible losses related to the claim does not exceed $4.0 million, excluding any punitive damages which the Company cannot currently estimate. The Company believes the claim is without merit and intends to defend itself vigorously; however, there can be no assurances that the Company will be successful in its defense.
CarLotz stockholder matters
On November 4, 2022, a lawsuit entitled Derek Dorrien v. CarLotz, Inc. et al., Case No. 1:22-cv-09463, was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against CarLotz and the members of the CarLotz board of directors (the “Dorrien Action”). On November 4, 2022, a lawsuit entitled Sholom D. Keller v. CarLotz, Inc. et al., Case No. 2022-1006-NAC, was filed in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware against CarLotz and the members of the CarLotz board of directors (the “Keller Action” and together with the Dorrien Action, the “Actions”). The Dorrien Action alleges that the defendants violated Sections 14(a) (and Rule 14a-9 promulgated thereunder) and 20(a) of the Exchange Act by, among other things, omitting certain allegedly material information with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement (the “Transactions”) in the registration statement on Form S-4 (the “Registration Statement”) filed by us with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 26, 2022. The Keller Action alleges that the members of the CarLotz board of directors and Lev Peker, in his capacity as an officer of CarLotz, breached their fiduciary duties in connection with the Transactions. The Actions seek, among other things, injunctive relief, money damages and the costs of the Actions, including reasonable attorneys’ and experts’ fees. We believe that the plaintiffs’ allegations in the Actions are without merit; however, litigation is inherently uncertain and there can be no assurance that CarLotz’s or our defense of the action will be successful.
In addition, on October 3, 2022, a purported stockholder of CarLotz sent a demand to CarLotz and us regarding the Registration Statement (the “CarLotz Stockholder Demand”). The CarLotz Stockholder Demand alleges the Registration Statement omits material information with respect to the Transactions and demands that CarLotz, the CarLotz board of directors, and Shift provide corrective disclosures. Shift disagrees with and intends to vigorously defend against any claim, if asserted, arising from the CarLotz Stockholder Demand.
Delaware Section 205 Petition
On March 6, 2023, Shift filed a petition in the Delaware Court of Chancery under Section 205 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”) to resolve potential uncertainty with respect to the Company’s share capital. Such uncertainty was introduced by a recent decision in Garfield v. Boxed, Inc., 2022 WL 17959766 (Del. Ch. Dec. 27, 2022) that potentially affects the Company and many other similarly situated companies that were formed and became publicly traded as a special purpose acquisition company (“SPAC”). Out of an abundance of caution, the Company elected to pursue the remedial actions described below. Concurrently with the filing of the Petition, the Company filed a motion to expedite the hearing on the Petition, which was subsequently granted on March 6, 2023.

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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
In October 2020, the Company, which was then a SPAC named Insurance Acquisition Corp. (“IAC”), held a special meeting of stockholders (the “IAC Special Meeting”) to approve certain matters relating to the merger between IAC and a privately held company then called Shift Technologies, Inc. One of these matters was a proposal to amend and restate IAC’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “SPAC Charter”) in order to, among other things, increase the number of authorized shares of Class A common stock from 50,000,000 to 500,000,000 (such proposal, the “Share Increase Proposal” and, together with such other amendments to the SPAC Charter, the “Charter Proposals”). At the IAC Special Meeting, the Charter Proposals were approved by a majority of the outstanding shares of Class A common stock and a majority of the outstanding shares of Class B common stock of IAC as of the record date for the IAC Special Meeting, voting together as a single class. After the IAC Special Meeting, IAC and Shift Technologies, Inc. closed the merger pursuant to which the Company became the parent of Shift Technologies, Inc. (now named Shift Platform, Inc.), and the Company’s certificate of incorporation, as amended to give effect to the Charter Proposals and to change the Company’s name to Shift Technologies, Inc., became effective.
The recent ruling by the Delaware Court of Chancery in the Boxed case introduced uncertainty as to whether Section 242(b)(2) of the DGCL would have required the Share Increase Proposal to be approved by the vote of the majority of IAC’s then-outstanding shares of Class A common stock, voting as a separate class. The Company had been operating with the understanding that the Charter Proposals were validly approved at the IAC Special Meeting. In light of this recent ruling, however, to resolve potential uncertainty with respect to the Company’s share capital, the Company filed a petition in the Delaware Court of Chancery under Section 205 of the DGCL to seek validation of the Charter Proposals. Section 205 of the DGCL permits the Court of Chancery, in its discretion, to ratify and validate potentially defective corporate acts.
On March 6, 2023, the Court of Chancery granted the motion to expedite and set a hearing date for the Petition to be heard. On March 17, 2023, the hearing took place and the Court of Chancery approved the Company’s request for relief. The Court of Chancery then entered an order under Section 205 of the DGCL on March 17, 2023, declaring (i) the increase in aggregate number of authorized shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001, of the Company from 50,000,000 to 500,000,000 under the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) and the Certificate of Incorporation, including the filing and effectiveness thereof, are validated and declared effective retroactive to the date of its filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on October 13, 2020 and (2) all shares of capital stock of the Company issued in reliance on the effectiveness of the Certificate of Incorporation are validated and declared effective as of the date and time of the original issuance of such shares.
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
11. STOCKHOLDERS' DEFICIT
Nasdaq Deficiency Letter and Reverse Stock Split
On October 4, 2022, the Company received a deficiency letter from the Listing Qualifications Department (the “Staff”) of The Nasdaq Capital Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) notifying us that, for the last 30 consecutive business days, the bid price for our Class A common stock had closed below the $1.00 per share minimum bid price requirement for continued inclusion on the Nasdaq Global Market pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5450(a)(1) (the "Bid Price Requirement"). Under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A) (the "Compliance Period Rule"), we have a 180-calendar day grace period, or until April 3, 2023 (the “Compliance Date”), to regain compliance with the Bid Price Requirement. During this period, our Class A common stock will continue to trade on the Nasdaq Capital Market. If at any time before the Compliance Date the bid price of Class A common stock closes at or above $1.00 per share for a minimum of 10 consecutive business days as required under the Compliance Period Rule, the Staff will provide written notification to the Company that it has regained compliance with the Bid Price Requirement (unless the Staff exercises its discretion to extend this 10 business day period pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(H)).
At the Company’s Special Meeting of Stockholders held on December 7, 2022, the Company’s stockholders approved a proposal to authorize a reverse stock split of the Company’s common stock, at a ratio within the range of 1-for-5 to 1-for-10. The Board approved a 1-for-10 reverse split ratio, and on March 7, 2023, the Company filed a Certificate of Amendment to its Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Charter Amendment”) to effect the reverse split effective March 8, 2023. On March 22, 2023, the Company was notified by Nasdaq that the Company has regained compliance with the Bid Price Requirement.
Capped Call Transactions
On May 27, 2021, in connection with the issuance of the Notes (see Note 9 - Borrowings), the Company consummated privately negotiated capped call transactions (the “Capped Call Transactions”) with certain of the initial purchasers, their respective affiliates and other counterparties (the "Capped Call Counterparties"). The Capped Call Transactions initially cover, subject to anti-dilution adjustments substantially similar to those applicable to the Notes, the number of the Company’s Class A common shares underlying the Notes. The Capped Call Transactions are expected generally to reduce the potential dilution to holders of the Company’s Class A common stock upon conversion of the Notes and/or offset the potential cash payments that the Company could be required to make in excess of the principal amount of any converted Notes upon conversion thereof, with such reduction and/or offset subject to a cap. The Capped Call Transactions are settled from time to time upon the conversion of the Notes, with a final expiration date of May 15, 2026. The Capped Call Transactions are settled in the same proportion of cash and stock as the converted Notes. The proportion of cash and stock used to settle the Notes is at the discretion of the Company.
The cap price of the Capped Call Transactions was initially approximately $148.725 per share, which represents a premium of approximately 125% above the last reported sale price per share of Class A common stock on Nasdaq on May 24, 2021, and is subject to certain adjustments under the terms of the Capped Call Transactions.
The Capped Call Transactions are separate transactions entered into by the Company with the Capped Call Counterparties, are not part of the terms of the Notes and will not change any holder’s rights under the Notes. Holders of the Notes will not have any rights with respect to the Capped Call Transactions.
The Company used approximately $28.4 million of the net proceeds from the offering of the Notes to pay the cost of the Capped Call Transactions. The Capped Call Transactions do not meet the criteria for separate accounting as a derivative as they are indexed to the Company's stock. The premiums paid for the Capped Call Transactions have been included as a net reduction to additional paid-in capital on the condensed consolidated balance sheets.
The settlement amount of the Capped Call Transactions at March 31, 2023 was zero. The settlement amount shall be greater than zero if the volume weighted average price ("VWAP") of the Company's Class A common stock is above $84.30 at any time over the 40 consecutive trading days immediately prior to settlement.
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
At-the-Market Offering
On May 6, 2022, the Company entered into a Controlled Equity OfferingSM Sales Agreement (the “Sales Agreement”), with Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. (the “Agent”), pursuant to which the Company may offer and sell, at its option, shares of the Company’s Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, having an aggregate offering price of up to $150.0 million (the “Placement Shares”), through the Agent, as its sales agent, from time to time at prevailing market prices in an “at-the-market offering” within the meaning of Rule 415 of the Securities Act, including sales made to the public directly on or through The Nasdaq Capital Market and any other trading market for shares of our Class A common stock (the “Offering”). Due to the Company's change at December 31, 2022 to a non-accelerated filer, the amount that can be raised through an offering is limited by Nasdaq requirements.
Under the Sales Agreement, the Company may from time to time deliver placement notices to the Agent designating the number of Placement Shares and the minimum price per share thereof to be offered. However, subject to the terms and conditions of the Sales Agreement, the Agent is not required to sell any specific number or dollar amount of Placement Shares but will act as Agent using their commercially reasonable efforts consistent with their normal trading and sales practices and applicable state and federal laws, rules and regulations and the rules of The Nasdaq Stock Market. The Company or the Agent may suspend the offering of Placement Shares by notifying the other party. The Offering will terminate after the sale of all of the Placement Shares subject to the Sales Agreement, or sooner in accordance with the Sales Agreement, upon proper notice by us and/or the Agents or by mutual agreement. The Company will pay the Agent a commission of up to 3.0% of the gross sales price of the shares of the Placement Shares sold under the Sales Agreement.
As of March 31, 2023, the Company had not sold any shares pursuant to the Sales Agreement. The Company's ability to raise capital under the ATM is currently constrained by restrictions on the Company's use of shelf registration statements.
CarLotz Warrants
As part of the CarLotz Merger, the Company assumed 718,342 public and 428,385 private warrants to purchase the Company's common stock at an exercise price of $163.06 related to CarLotz's prior merger with Acamar Partners.
Additionally, former CarLotz equity holders at the closing of CarLotz's previous merger are entitled to receive up to an additional 489,841 earnout shares. The earnout period expires on January 21, 2026 (the "Forfeiture Date") and the earnout shares will be issued if any of the following conditions are achieved:
i.If at any time prior to the Forfeiture Date, the closing trading price of the common stock is greater than $177.24 over any 20 trading days within any 30 trading day period (the “First Threshold”), the Company will issue 50% of the earnout shares.
ii.If at any time prior to the Forfeiture Date, the closing trading price of the common stock is greater than $212.69 over any 20 trading days within any 30 trading day period (the “Second Threshold”), the Company will issue 50% of the earnout shares.
iii.If either the First Threshold or the Second Threshold is not met on or before the Forfeiture Date, any unissued earnout shares are forfeited. All unissued earnout shares will be issued if there is a change of control of the Company that will result in the holders of the common stock receiving a per share price equal to or in excess of $141.80 (as equitably adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, special cash dividends, reorganizations, combinations, recapitalizations and similar transactions affecting the common stock) prior to the Forfeiture Date.
The liabilities associated with the warrants and earnout shares were immaterial as of March 31, 2023. There was not a material change in the fair value of the liabilities between the Merger Date and March 31, 2023.
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12. SEGMENT INFORMATION
The Company currently is organized into two reportable segments: Retail and Wholesale. The Retail segment represents retail sales of used vehicles through the Company’s ecommerce platform and fees earned on sales of value-added products associated with those vehicles sales such as vehicle service contracts, guaranteed asset protection waiver coverage, prepaid maintenance plans, and appearance protection plans. The Wholesale segment represents sales of used vehicles through wholesale auctions or directly to a wholesaler (“DTW”).
No operating segments have been aggregated to form the reportable segments. The Company determined its operating segments based on how the chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) reviews the Company’s operating results in assessing performance and allocating resources. The CODM is the Chief Executive Officer. The CODM reviews revenue and gross profit for each of the reportable segments. Gross profit is defined as revenue less cost of sales incurred by the segment. The CODM does not evaluate operating segments using asset information as these are managed on an enterprise-wide group basis. Accordingly, the Company does not report segment asset information. During the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company did not have sales to customers outside the United States. As of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company did not have any assets located outside of the United States.
Information about the Company’s reportable segments are as follows (in thousands):
Three Months Ended March 31,
20232022
Revenue from external customers
Retail$50,559 $191,793 
Wholesale3,549 27,787 
Consolidated$54,108 $219,580 
Segment gross profit (loss)
Retail$3,929 $10,926 
Wholesale(765)(138)
Consolidated$3,164 $10,788 
The reconciliation between reportable segment gross profit to loss before income taxes is as follows (in thousands):
 Three Months Ended March 31,
 20232022
Segment gross profit$3,164 $10,788 
Selling, general and administrative expenses(42,591)(63,537)
Depreciation and amortization(4,399)(1,680)
Loss on impairment(931) 
Interest and other expense, net(2,791)(2,578)
Loss before income taxes$(47,548)$(57,007)
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13. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION PLANS
The Company’s 2014 Stock Option Plan (the “2014 Plan”) provides for the grant of restricted stock awards and incentive and non-qualified options and to purchase Class A common stock to officers, employees, directors, and consultants. Options granted to employees and non-employees generally vest ratably over four to five years, with a maximum contractual term of ten years. Outstanding awards under the 2014 Plan continue to be subject to the terms and conditions of the 2014 Plan. The number of shares authorized for issuance under the 2014 Plan was reduced to the number of shares subject to awards outstanding under the 2014 Plan immediately after the IAC Merger. As a result, no further awards will be made under the 2014 Plan. Shares reserved for awards that are subsequently expired or forfeited will no longer be returned to the pool of shares authorized for issuance under the 2014 Plan.
At the Company's special meeting of stockholders held on October 13, 2020, the stockholders approved the 2020 Omnibus Equity Compensation Plan (the "2020 Plan"). The 2020 Plan provides for the grant of incentive and non-qualified stock option, restricted stock units ("RSUs"), restricted share awards, stock appreciation awards, and cash-based awards to employees, directors, and consultants of the Company. Awards under the 2020 Plan expire no more than ten years from the date of grant. The 2020 Plan became effective immediately upon the closing of the IAC Merger.
In June 2022, the Company's Compensation Committee adopted the 2022 Employment Inducement Plan and granted at total of 46,165 inducement RSU awards to form Fair employees joining the Company following the acquisition of the Marketplace Assets (see Note 3 - Business Combinations). The grants of restricted stock units were promised to each of the employees in their employment agreements or offer letters with the Company as a material inducement to employment in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4). All awards will vest subject to continued employment and vest on May 20, 2023.
In December 2022, the Company assumed various stock plans in connection with the CarLotz Merger (the "CarLotz Plans"). Outstanding awards under the CarLotz Plans continue to be subject to the terms and conditions of the CarLotz Plans. The number of shares authorized for issuance under the CarLotz Plans was reduced to the number of shares subject to awards outstanding under the CarLotz Plans immediately after the CarLotz Merger.
Activity related to employee and non-employee stock options for all plans is set forth below:
Number of
Shares
Weighted
Average
Exercise Price
Weighted Average
Remaining
Contractual Life
(Years)
Aggregate Intrinsic Value (000’s)
As of December 31, 2022
519,323 $26.02 4.95$1 
Granted  
Exercised  
Forfeited(4,927)31.99 
Cancelled (expired)(117,025)70.05 
As of March 31, 2023
397,371$12.98 5.95$ 
Exercisable as of March 31, 2023
393,867$12.84 5.94$ 
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Activity related to employee and non-employee RSU awards is set forth below:
Number of
Shares
Weighted
Average
Grant Date Fair Value
Weighted Average
Remaining
Contractual Life
(Years)
Aggregate Intrinsic Value (000’s)
Unvested as of December 31, 2022
486,054 $29.30 1.01$724 
Granted123,688 2.16 
Vested(35,796)37.70 
Forfeited(89,298)20.69 
Unvested as of March 31, 2023
484,648$23.27 0.81$543 
Vested and unreleased22,673
Outstanding as of March 31, 2023
507,321
Stock-Based Compensation Expense
For the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company recorded stock-based compensation expense to selling, general and administrative expenses on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss of $1.2 million and $4.2 million, respectively. In addition, the Company capitalized stock-based compensation costs for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022 of $0.2 million and $0.3 million, respectively, to capitalized website and internal use software costs, net.
As of March 31, 2023, there was $9.0 million of unrecognized stock-based compensation expense that is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 1.21 years.
14. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
Sales to Related Parties
The Company operated a one-sided marketplace (“OSM”) program whereby the Company acquired cars from various sources in Oxnard, California and sold them directly and solely to Lithia. The Company invoiced Lithia based on the purchase price of the car plus an agreed upon margin. During the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company recognized zero and $4.7 million, respectively, of sales from the OSM agreement with Lithia. The OSM program was terminated in the second quarter of 2022 with the last sale to Lithia taking place in March 2022.
Accounts Receivable from Related Party
In September 2018, the Company entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) and a commercial agreement for Milestone 1 with Lithia and granted Lithia a warrant to purchase 8,666,154 shares of Legacy Shift common stock at an exercise price of $0.10 per share (the “Warrant Shares”). The Warrant Shares were scheduled to vest and become exercisable in six separate tranches of 1,444,359 shares each. Vesting and exercisability was dependent upon the achievement of the Milestones, as defined below. While the Warrant Agreement establishes general vesting terms for each of the six Milestones, each of the six Milestones contains substantive service or performance requirements, and were non-binding as neither the Company nor Lithia were obligated to perform until the commercial agreement associated with each Milestone was executed. All Warrant Shares became vested prior to the Vesting Termination Date and were exercised prior to the IAC Merger.
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In connection with the negotiations related to Milestone 5, Lithia facilitated an agreement with Automotive Warranty Services (“AWS”) to sell and market AWS’s service plans, whereby the Company receives commission rates from AWS of comparable terms to those received by Lithia. In substance the Company paid Lithia, in the form of Warrant Shares, to make an upfront payment to Company’s customers on behalf of the Company as the Company achieved favorable pricing from AWS. The benefits of this agreement were guaranteed by Lithia for an initial term of five years commencing on the signing date of the agreement. Such arrangement was the first of a number of agreements to be entered into under the terms of Milestone 5 (see further discussion below). The estimated fair value of the in substance upfront payment to AWS was $2.8 million with an offsetting entry recorded to additional paid-in capital, representing a capital transaction with a related party.
Milestone 5 was met in October 2019 and the Company recorded the warrants to additional paid-in capital based on a fair value of $4.3 million. Milestone 5 was achieved after a mutual signed agreement was entered into evidencing that Lithia provided commercially best efforts to help the Company secure and maintain access to four finance and insurance products on par with a typical Lithia store. The fair value of the in substance upfront payment, other than the $2.8 million for AWS discussed above, was $0.4 million and was recorded to other non-current assets on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. The combined asset recorded of $3.2 million is subject to amortization over a five-year period expected period of benefit. During the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022 the Company amortized $0.1 million and $0.2 million, respectively of the asset as a reduction to finance and insurance sales, which is recorded within other revenue, net on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. As of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the remaining asset, net of amortization, was zero and $0.6 million, respectively.
In February 2023, the contract obtained pursuant to Milestone 5 was terminated, and the remaining $0.5 million of the Milestone 5 asset was expensed to selling, general and administrative expenses on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
Accounts Payable Due to Related Party
As of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022 payables and accruals to Lithia consisted of other miscellaneous expenses of $0.2 million and $0.2 million, respectively.
15. IMPAIRMENT, RESTRUCTURING AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
During the fourth fiscal quarter of 2022, management identified indicators of impairment, including declines in our market capitalization, rising interest rates, and other unfavorable macroeconomic and industry factors, and performed a test for recoverability for each of the Company's pre-CarLotz Merger asset groups. Assets acquired as part of the CarLotz Merger were recorded at fair value on the acquisition date (see Note 3 - Business Combinations). Asset groups consisted of one asset group containing all operating assets and liabilities of the Company (the "Operating Asset Group"), and separate assets groups each containing a single closed facility that is subleased or held for sublease (the "Sublease Asset Groups"). The Operating Asset Group and certain Sublease Asset Groups were determined not to be recoverable, and as such management determined the fair value of these asset groups. The Operating Asset Group was valued with the assistance of third-party valuation specialists using a market approach based on comparison to peer company valuation multiples. The Sublease Asset Groups were valued using the income approach based on discounted estimated cash flows from subleasing the properties.
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The Operating Asset Group and one of the Sublease Asset Groups were determined to have carrying values in excess of their fair values. As such, the Company measured a loss on impairment equal to the difference between the carrying value and the fair value of each impaired asset group. The loss on impairment was allocated to the assets within each respective asset group, except that no individual asset was reduced below its individual fair value. Within the Operating Asset Group, the fair value of individual assets was determined with the assistance of third party valuation specialists. Right of use assets were valued using the market approach, based on comparison to similar leased properties. Capitalized internal use software was valued using the relief-from-royalty approach, which involves the estimation of an amount of hypothetical royalty savings enjoyed by the entity that owns an intangible asset because that entity is relieved from having to license that intangible asset from another owner. Property and equipment was valued using the cost approach based on secondary market values of similar assets. Within the impaired Sublease Asset Group, the fair value of the impaired right of use asset was determined using the income approach based on discounted estimated cash flows from subleasing the properties.
The Company recognized a loss on impairment of long-lived assets related to various Sublease Asset Groups of $0.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023. There was no loss on impairment of long lived assets for the three months ended March 31, 2022. All impaired asset groups were contained in the Retail segment.
Facility Closures and Reduction in Force
During the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Company reduced its total headcount by approximately 42% as a result of continued efforts to improve overhead efficiency and elimination of redundancies resulting from the CarLotz Merger. During the three months ended March 31, 2023, the reduction in force resulted in total new cash charges of approximately $0.9 million, consisting primarily of severance and related personnel reduction costs included in selling, general and administrative expenses on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. In addition, the Company closed its facility in Downers Grove, Illinois and the former CarLotz headquarters facility in Richmond, Virginia.
Restructuring Plan
On July 22, 2022, the Company's Board approved the implementation of the Restructuring Plan designed to position the Company for long-term profitable growth by prioritizing unit economics, reducing operating expenses and maximizing liquidity. As part of the Restructuring Plan, the Company consolidated Shift’s physical operations to three West Coast locations in Los Angeles, Oakland, and Portland, closing seven existing facilities. The Company also restructured its workforce around the reduced physical footprint, eliminating approximately 650 positions or 60% of its workforce. The restructuring was substantially complete as of September 30, 2022. There were no restructuring charges recognized for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022.
The following table is a reconciliation of the beginning and ending severance liability for the three months ended March 31, 2023 related to the Restructuring Plan:

Balance at December 31, 2022$794 
Accruals and accrual adjustments 
Cash payments(161)
Balance at March 31, 2023
$633 
Commutation of Reinsurance Contracts
During the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Company commuted all reinsurance contracts issued by the Company's Orange Peel Protection Reinsurance, Ltd. subsidiary. The commutation resulted in transfer of the Company's reinsurance-related assets and liabilities to the counterparty, in exchange for net cash consideration of $0.2 million. In connection with the commutation, the Company recognized a loss on disposal of $0.1 million included in selling, general and administrative expenses on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
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Assets and Liabilities Held for Sale and Discontinued Operations
In connection with the acquisition of CarLotz, the Company acquired several real estate leaseholds. A plan of sale related to several of these real estate leases as well as certain assets and liabilities of the Orange Grove Fleet Solutions, LLC ("Orange Grove") subsidiary was adopted in December 2022. Orange Grove and three retail locations sold during the three months ended March 31, 2023 were determined to meet the criteria for classification as discontinued operations. The discontinued operations are included in the Retail and Wholesale segments. The impact on net loss of these leases and subsidiaries held for sale was immaterial for the year ended December 31, 2022.
Additional leasehold and related assets were classified as held for sale during the three months ended March 31, 2023. None of the assets and liabilities initially classified as held for sale during the three months ended March 31, 2023 met the criteria to be classified as discontinued operations. The Company recognized a loss on disposal of $3.1 million in connection with assets classified as held for sale during three months ended March 31, 2023. The loss on disposal was recorded in selling, general and administrative expenses on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
On February 2, 2023, the Company entered into and closed on an Asset Purchase Agreement with a private dealership group, pursuant to which the counterparty agreed to purchase the inventory and the lease-related assets and liabilities of the three retail locations for net cash consideration of $0.4 million.
The following table presents the loss associated with the sale, presented in the results of our discontinued operations below, in thousands:
Gross purchase price$434 
Net assets sold(820)
Loss on disposal$(386)
The carrying value of the net assets classified as discontinued operations sold during the period were as follows, in thousands:
Assets
Inventory$606 
Security deposits57 
Property, plant, and equipment306 
Operating lease assets1,577 
Total assets$2,546 
Liabilities
Operating lease liabilities$1,726 
Total liabilities$1,726 
Net assets sold$820 
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The following table presents components making up the balance sheets line item consisting of the carrying amount of assets and liabilities classified as held for sale and the aggregate amounts of the classes of assets and liabilities of the facilities and entities classified as discontinued operations, in thousands:
March 31, 2023December 31, 2022
Assets
Held for sale:
Operating lease assets$7,813 $5,634 
Finance lease assets, net 3,960 
Total held for sale assets7,813 9,594 
Discontinued Operations:
Accounts receivable, net460689
Prepaid expenses and other current assets217226
Property and equipment, net2,1862,584
Operating lease assets1,8933,938
Finance lease assets, net180195
Total discontinued operations assets4,9367,632
Total held for sale and discontinued operations assets$12,749$17,226
Liabilities
Held for sale:
Operating lease liabilities$13,018 $6,016 
Finance lease liabilities2,641 4,843 
Total held for sale liabilities15,659 10,859 
Discontinued Operations:
Accounts payable6570
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities272131
Operating lease liabilities1,9004,122
Finance lease liabilities183193
Other non-current liabilities8087
Total discontinued operations liabilities2,5004,603
Total held for sale and discontinued operations liabilities$18,159$15,462
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The following table presents information regarding certain components of loss from discontinued operations:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2023
Retail revenue, net$2,123 
Other revenue, net270 
Wholesale vehicle revenue1,190 
Total revenue3,584 
Cost of sales3,210 
Gross profit374 
Selling, general and administrative expenses459 
Loss on disposal386 
Depreciation and amortization20 
Total Operating Expenses865 
Loss from operations(491)
Interest and other expense, net(3)
Loss from discontinued operations$(494)

Transaction costs related to the sale were immaterial for the three months ended March 31, 2023.

The following table presents non-cash items related to discontinued operations, in thousands:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2023
Depreciation and amortization$20 
16. INCOME TAXES
The Company recorded a provision for income taxes of $0.1 million and $41 thousand for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The Company continues to maintain a full valuation allowance for its net U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets.
17. NET LOSS PER SHARE
The following table sets forth the computation of net loss per share, basic and diluted:
 Three Months Ended
March 31,
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)20232022
Net loss$(48,097)$(57,048)
Weighted-average number of shares outstanding used to compute net loss per share, basic and diluted16,920,600 8,182,525 
Net loss per share, basic and diluted$(2.84)$(6.97)
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The following potentially dilutive shares were not included in the calculation of diluted shares outstanding for the periods presented as the effect would have been anti-dilutive:
 As of March 31,
 20232022
Escrow Shares300,010 300,010 
Public and private warrants1,146,727  
Earnout Shares489,841  
Convertible Notes1,779,834 1,779,834 
Stock options397,371 156,302 
Restricted stock units507,321 748,162 
Contingently repurchasable early exercise shares813 4,800 
Total4,621,917 2,989,108 
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18. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
The Company has evaluated subsequent events through the filing of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, and determined that there have been no events that have occurred that would require adjustments to our disclosures in the condensed consolidated financial statements, except for the following:
Review of Strategic Alternatives
On May 11, 2023, we announced that our Board of Directors is exploring and evaluating strategic alternatives to enhance stockholder value, which may include (but may not be limited to) exploring a potential sale of certain operating businesses, third party investment or partnership opportunities and/or funding alternatives for our marketplace business, or the continued execution of our business plans. There is no set timetable for completion of the evaluation process, and we do not intend to provide updates or make any comments regarding the evaluation of strategic alternatives, unless our Board of Directors has approved a specific transaction or otherwise deems disclosure appropriate.
There can be no assurance that any such transaction will be pursued or consummated. We may also incur substantial costs in connection with the pursuit of strategic alternatives which are not ultimately consummated. Also, there are risks inherent with the consummation of any such transaction, such as the risks that the expected enhancement of shareholder value may not be realized, that unexpected liabilities may result from such transaction and that the process of consummating or the effects of consummating such a transaction may cause interruption or slow down the operations of our existing or continuing businesses.
Convertible Notes
On May 16, 2023, the Company announced that it is utilizing the contractual 30-day grace period with respect to the interest payment due on May 15, 2023 on its convertible notes. The Company and its advisors plan to communicate with debt holders to explore restructuring options.
Nasdaq Market Capitalization Deficiency Letter
On April 19, 2023, Nasdaq staff (the "Staff") notified the Company that, for the last 30 consecutive business days, the Company’s Market Value of Listed Securities ("MVLS") was below the minimum of $35 million required for continued listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(b)(2) (the “Market Value Standard”). The Company has a period of 180 calendar days from the date of the notice, or until October 16, 2023 (the “Compliance Date”), to regain compliance with the Market Value Standard. During this period, Class A common stock will continue to trade on the Nasdaq Capital Market. If at any time before the Compliance Date the Company’s MVLS closes at or above $35 million for a minimum of 10 consecutive business days as required under the Market Value Standard, the Staff will notify the Company it has regained compliance and the matter will be closed. If the Company does not regain compliance with the Market Value Standard by the Compliance Date, the Staff will provide a written notification to the Company that Class A common stock will be subject to delisting. At that time, the Company may appeal the Staff’s delisting determination to a Hearings Panel (the “Panel”). However, there can be no assurance that, if the Company receives a delisting notice and appeals the delisting determination by the Staff to the Panel, such appeal would be successful. The Company intends to monitor its MVLS between now and the Compliance Date, and may, if appropriate, evaluate available options to resolve the deficiency under the Market Value Standard and regain compliance with the Market Value Standard.
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ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
You should read the following management’s discussion and analysis together with our condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes included under Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and Part II, Item 8 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022. This discussion contains forward-looking statements about Shift’s business, operations and industry that involve risks and uncertainties, such as statements regarding Shift’s plans, objectives, expectations and intentions. Shift’s future results and financial condition may differ materially from those currently anticipated by Shift as a result of the factors described in the sections entitled “Risk Factors” and “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.” Throughout this section, unless otherwise noted “we”, “us”, “our” and the “Company” refer to Shift and its consolidated subsidiaries.
Overview
Shift is a consumer-centric omnichannel retailer transforming the used car industry by leveraging its end-to-end ecommerce platform and retail locations to provide a technology-driven, hassle-free customer experience.
Launched in 2014, Shift started as a pure ecommerce seller and buyer of used cars, aimed at transforming the customer experience within the industry. Since inception, Shift has invested significantly into its technology platform to create an exceptional customer experience and to support and leverage the internal operations of the Company.
On October 13, 2020, Insurance Acquisition Corp. (“IAC”), an entity listed on The Nasdaq Capital Market under the trade symbol “INSU”, acquired Shift Platform, Inc., formerly known as Shift Technologies, Inc. (“Legacy Shift”), by the merger of IAC Merger Sub, Inc., a direct wholly owned subsidiary of IAC, with and into Legacy Shift, with Legacy Shift continuing as the surviving entity and a wholly owned subsidiary of IAC (the “IAC Merger”). The public company resulting from the merger was renamed Shift Technologies, Inc.
In August 2022, Shift announced both a strategic and operational restructuring and a merger with CarLotz (the "CarLotz Merger"), a consignment-to-retail used vehicle marketplace that operated a technology-enabled buying, sourcing, and selling model with an omnichannel experience. With the implementation of the restructuring and the close of the merger, Shift evolved into an omnichannel experience and established a plan to position the Company for long-term profitable growth by prioritizing unit economics, reducing operating expenses and maximizing liquidity.
The Company has three markets in California and Oregon, where customers can test drive vehicles and work with sales associates during any point of the sale process. Each market has Shift-managed reconditioning centers to prepare each vehicle for sale using a 150+ point inspection process. In-house reconditioning provides better control of timing and greater efficiency within our operations. In addition to performing the 150+ point inspection, we offer customers a seven-day, 200-mile return policy, to ensure consumer confidence in their purchase from Shift.
Recent Events
Review of Strategic Alternatives
On May 11, 2023, we announced that our Board of Directors is exploring and evaluating strategic alternatives to enhance stockholder value, which may include (but may not be limited to) exploring a potential sale of certain operating businesses, third party investment or partnership opportunities and/or funding alternatives for our marketplace business, or the continued execution of our business plans. There is no set timetable for completion of the evaluation process, and we do not intend to provide updates or make any comments regarding the evaluation of strategic alternatives, unless our Board of Directors has approved a specific transaction or otherwise deems disclosure appropriate.
There can be no assurance that any such transaction will be pursued or consummated. We may also incur substantial costs in connection with the pursuit of strategic alternatives which are not ultimately consummated. Also, there are risks inherent with the consummation of any such transaction, such as the risks that the expected enhancement of shareholder value may not be realized, that unexpected liabilities may result from such transaction and that the process of consummating or the effects of consummating such a transaction may cause interruption or slow down the operations of our existing or continuing businesses.
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Convertible Notes
On May 16, 2023, the Company announced that it is utilizing the contractual 30-day grace period with respect to the interest payment due on May 15, 2023 on its convertible notes. The Company and its advisors plan to communicate with debt holders to explore restructuring options.
Nasdaq Market Capitalization Deficiency Letter
On April 19, 2023, Nasdaq staff (the "Staff") notified the Company that, for the last 30 consecutive business days, the Company’s Market Value of Listed Securities ("MVLS") was below the minimum of $35 million required for continued listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(b)(2) (the “Market Value Standard”). The Company has a period of 180 calendar days from the date of the notice, or until October 16, 2023 (the “Compliance Date”), to regain compliance with the Market Value Standard. During this period, Class A common stock will continue to trade on The Nasdaq Capital Market. If at any time before the Compliance Date the Company’s MVLS closes at or above $35 million for a minimum of 10 consecutive business days as required under the Market Value Standard, the Staff will notify the Company it has regained compliance and the matter will be closed. If the Company does not regain compliance with the Market Value Standard by the Compliance Date, the Staff will provide a written notification to the Company that Class A common stock will be subject to delisting. At that time, the Company may appeal the Staff’s delisting determination to a Hearings Panel (the “Panel”). However, there can be no assurance that, if the Company receives a delisting notice and appeals the delisting determination by the Staff to the Panel, such appeal would be successful. The Company intends to monitor its MVLS between now and the Compliance Date, and may, if appropriate, evaluate available options to resolve the deficiency under the Market Value Standard and regain compliance with the Market Value Standard.
Nasdaq Deficiency Letter and Reverse Stock Split
On October 4, 2022, we received a deficiency letter from the Listing Qualifications Department (the “Staff”) of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) notifying us that, for the last 30 consecutive business days, the bid price for our Class A common stock had closed below the $1.00 per share minimum bid price requirement for continued inclusion on The Nasdaq Capital Market pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5450(a)(1) (the "Bid Price Requirement"). Under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A) (the "Compliance Period Rule"), we have a 180-calendar day grace period, or until April 3, 2023 (the “Compliance Date”), to regain compliance with the Bid Price Requirement. During this period, our Class A common stock will continue to trade on The Nasdaq Capital Market. If at any time before the Compliance Date the bid price of Class A common stock closes at or above $1.00 per share for a minimum of 10 consecutive business days as required under the Compliance Period Rule, the Staff will provide written notification to the Company that it has regained compliance with the Bid Price Requirement (unless the Staff exercises its discretion to extend this 10 business day period pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(H)).
At the Company’s Special Meeting of Stockholders held on December 7, 2022, the Company’s stockholders approved a proposal to authorize a reverse stock split of the Company’s Class A common stock, at a ratio within the range of 1-for-5 to 1-for-10. The Board approved a 1-for-10 reverse split ratio, and on March 7, 2023, the Company filed a Certificate of Amendment to its Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Charter Amendment”) to effect the reverse split effective March 8, 2023. On March 22, 2023, the Company was notified by Nasdaq that the Company has regained compliance with the Bid Price Requirement.
CarLotz Merger
The Company closed its acquisition of CarLotz, Inc. in December 2022. At the date of this filing, the Company has closed all former CarLotz locations except those serving our current major markets. The workforce of the combined company has also been reduced in accordance with our smaller geographic footprint and to eliminate redundancies arising from the CarLotz Merger.
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Business Description
Shift is an omnichannel retailer buying and selling used cars, operating an end-to-end ecommerce platform and three markets located in California and Oregon. Each market provides vehicle inventory inspection, reconditioning and storage to prepare cars for sale. For the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Company had $54.1 million in revenue, a decrease of 75% compared to $219.6 million of revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2022.
Shift's focus on improving unit economics is driven by direct vehicle acquisition channels, optimized inventory mix and ancillary product offerings, combined with streamlined inventory onboarding, controlled fulfillment costs, and centralized software. Shift’s differentiated consumer sourcing strategy offers a wide variety of vehicles across the entire spectrum of model, price, age, and mileage to ensure that Shift has the right car for buyers regardless of interest, need, budget, or credit. For the three months ended March 31, 2023, Shift sourced 79% of its inventory from consumer-sellers and partners driving improved margins and customer acquisition cost. Our data-driven vehicle evaluations help ensure acquisition of the right inventory at the right price to reduce days to sale. We believe that a differentiated ability to purchase vehicles directly from consumer-sellers provides Shift with access to a deep pool of scarce, highly desirable inventory. Over time, we intend to expand our machine learning-enabled recommendation engine to better help customers find the cars best suited to them.
Shift offers a full suite of options to consumers to finance and protect their vehicle through our mobile point-of-sale solution or in our locations. These products include vehicle service contracts, guaranteed asset protection, and tire coverage.
Since inception, Shift has invested significantly in its technology to provide a highly-rated customer experience, to support the operations of the business, and to allow the Company to scale over time. Our ecommerce platform has significant functionality that includes discover and search functionality for potential car buyers, the ability to connect customers to various lending partners for financing and service products, online prequalification form that filters inventory that meets their budget and financing requirements, ability to prequalify for financing, and the ability to get an instant online quote for car sellers. We will continue to develop our technology to improve the overall operations of the business and especially the customer experience.


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Revenue Model
Shift’s two-sided model generates value from both the purchase and sale of vehicles along with financing and vehicle protection products. We acquire cars directly from consumers, partners, and other sources and sell vehicles to consumers at one of our markets, directly, through our ecommerce platform in a seamless end-to-end process, or through a combination of online and in-person. This model captures value from the difference in the price at which the car is acquired and sold, as well as through fees on the sale of ancillary products such as financing and vehicle protection products, also referred to as finance and insurance (“F&I”), and services. If a car that we purchase does not meet our standards for retail sale, we generate revenue by selling through wholesale channels. These vehicles are primarily acquired from customers who trade-in their existing vehicles in connection with a purchase from us. Our revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022 was $54.1 million and $219.6 million, respectively.
Inventory Sourcing
We source the majority of our vehicles directly from consumers and partners who use the Shift platform to resell trade-in and other vehicles. These channels provide scarce and desirable local inventory of used cars of greater quality than those typically found at auction. In addition to those primary channels, we supplement our vehicle acquisitions with purchases from auto auctions, as well as some vehicles sourced locally through the trade-in program of an original equipment manufacturer (“OEM”).
Proprietary machine learning-enabled software inputs vast quantities of data across both the supply and demand sides to optimize our vehicle acquisition strategy. As we accumulate data, we expect to improve the performance of our model to optimize our vehicle selection and disposal.
Vehicle Reconditioning
All of the cars that Shift sells undergo a rigorous 150+ point mechanical inspection and reconditioning process in one of our markets (or at a third-party partner when additional capacity is needed) to help ensure that they are safe, reliable, up to cosmetic standards, and comfortable. We have created two classifications of inventory for reconditioning — Value and Certified — to optimize the level of reconditioning for each vehicle classification. This allows us to efficiently provide each customer with the greatest value through a tailored reconditioning approach. Value cars are typically sold at a lower price point and are sought after by consumers who have different expectations and tolerances for cosmetic reconditioning standards — therefore, we focus on mechanical and safety issues for these vehicles, with less emphasis on cosmetic repair, in order to optimize reconditioning costs. This operational flexibility in our reconditioning process improves our ability to grow profitably and is a primary factor in our decision to conduct reconditioning in-house.
Financing and Vehicle Protection Products
We generate revenue by earning no obligation referral fees for selling ancillary products to customers that purchase vehicles through the Shift platform. Since we earn fees for the F&I products we sell, our gross profit on these items is equal to the revenue we generate. Our current offering consists of financing from third-party lenders, guaranteed asset protection (“GAP”), vehicle protection plans and vehicle service contracts. We plan to offer additional third-party products to provide a wider product offering to customers and expect these products to contribute to reaching our revenue and profitability targets.
Shift Marketplace
We are developing an online marketplace that will enable third party dealers to reach customers through our marketplace platform, making a wide selection of used vehicles available to customers online. The Company currently anticipates that the online marketplace will launch in the third quarter of 2023.

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Factors Affecting our Business Performance
Various trends and other factors have affected and may continue to affect our business, financial condition and operating results, including:
Market Penetration Within Our Existing Markets
We believe that there remains an opportunity to capture additional market share within our existing markets.
Technology Platform
We are constantly investing in our technology platform to improve both customer experience and our business performance. We regularly implement changes to our software to help customers find the right car for them, while the machine learning component of our inventory and pricing model ensures we get the right cars at the right price. As our algorithms evolve, we are able to better monetize our inventory of vehicles through improved pricing. Simultaneously, customers become more likely to purchase a car on our website, driving higher demand and sales volume.
Reconditioning Processes
We learned early on from our experience in the used car sales business that in order to be a reliable used car resource with desirable inventory for all customer types, we needed to control our own reconditioning processes. Our reconditioning program has constantly improved over the course of our history, and we are happy with what we have achieved. Each unit of our inventory is reconditioned with a focus on safety first, while optimizing for repairs that will have the highest return on investment (“ROI”).
Other Revenue from Existing Revenue Streams
We have prioritized development of our “other revenue” streams, which comprise the financing and vehicle protection products as well as other ancillary products. We have invested in the technology and sales capabilities needed to increase the likelihood that consumers will purchase ancillary products in connection with the sale of a vehicle, and we see more opportunity for additional revenue within our existing channels from further expansion of our attach rates for our financing and vehicle protection product suite.
Other Revenue from Expansion of Product Offerings
We see an opportunity to further expand our other revenue streams through additional product offerings beyond the existing offerings on our platform. These incremental revenue streams will come in the form of on-boarding new lending partners to our existing loan program, as well as introducing entirely new financing and vehicle protection products to offer our customers. We intend to continue to grow this business segment to service every addressable need of our customers during the vehicle purchase process.
Seasonality
We expect our quarterly results of operations, including our revenue, gross profit, profitability, if any, and cash flow to vary significantly in the future, based in part on, among other things, consumers’ car buying patterns. We have typically experienced higher revenue growth rates in the second and third quarters of the calendar year than in each of the first or fourth quarters of the calendar year. We believe these results are due to seasonal buying patterns driven in part by the timing of income tax refunds, which we believe are an important source of car buyer down payments on used vehicle purchases. We recognize that in the future, our revenues may be affected by these seasonal trends (including any disruptions to normal seasonal trends arising from the COVID-19 pandemic), as well as cyclical trends affecting the overall economy, and specifically the automotive retail industry.

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Key Operating Metrics
We regularly review a number of metrics, including the following key metrics, to evaluate our business, measure our progress and make strategic decisions. Our key operating metrics measure the key drivers of our performance, increasing our brand awareness through unique site visitors and continuing to offer a full spectrum of used vehicles to service all types of customers.
Retail Units Sold
We define retail units sold as the number of vehicles sold to customers in a given period, net of returns. We currently have a seven-day, 200 mile return policy. The number of retail units sold is the primary driver of our revenues and, indirectly, gross profit, since retail unit sales enable multiple complementary revenue streams, including all financing and protection products. We view retail units sold as a key measure of our growth, as growth in this metric is an indicator of our ability to successfully scale our operations while maintaining product integrity and customer satisfaction.
Wholesale Units Sold
We define wholesale units sold as the number of vehicles sold through wholesale channels in a given period. While wholesale units are not the primary driver of revenue or gross profit, wholesale is a valuable channel as it allows us to be able to purchase vehicles regardless of condition, which is important for the purpose of accepting a trade-in from a customer making a vehicle purchase from us, and as an online destination for consumers to sell their cars even if not selling us a car that meets our retail standards.
Retail Average Sale Price
We define retail average sale price (“ASP”) as the average price paid by a customer for a retail vehicle, calculated as retail revenue divided by retail units. Retail average sale price helps us gauge market demand in real-time and allows us to maintain a range of inventory that most accurately reflects the overall price spectrum of used vehicle sales in the market. We believe this metric provides transparency and is comparable to our peers.
Wholesale Average Sale Price
We define wholesale average sale price as the average price paid by a customer for a wholesale vehicle, calculated as wholesale revenue divided by wholesale units. We believe this metric provides transparency and is comparable to our peers.
Gross Profit per Unit
We define gross profit per unit as the gross profit for retail, other, and wholesale, each of which is divided by the total number of retail units sold in the period. We calculate gross profit as the revenue from vehicle sales and services less the costs associated with acquiring and reconditioning the vehicle prior to sale. Gross profit per unit is primarily driven by retail vehicle revenue, which generates additional revenue through attachment of our financing and protection products, and gross profit generated from wholesale vehicle sales. We present gross profit per unit from our three revenues streams as Retail gross profit per unit, Wholesale gross profit per unit and Other gross profit per unit.
Average Monthly Unique Visitors
We define a monthly unique visitor as an individual who has visited our website within a calendar month, based on data collected on our website. We calculate average monthly unique visitors as the sum of monthly unique visitors in a given period, divided by the number of months in that period. To classify whether a visitor is “unique”, we dedupe (a technique for eliminating duplicate copies of repeating data) each visitor based on email address and phone number, if available, and if not, we use the anonymous ID which lives in each user’s internet cookies. This practice ensures that we do not double-count individuals who visit our website multiple times within any given month. We view average monthly unique visitors as a key indicator of the strength of our brand, the effectiveness of our advertising and merchandising campaigns and consumer awareness.
Average Days to Sale
We define average days to sale as the number of days between Shift’s acquisition of a vehicle and sale of that vehicle to a customer, averaged across all retail units sold in a period. We view average days to sale as a useful metric in understanding the health of our inventory.
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Retail Vehicles Available for Sale
We define retail vehicles available for sale as the number of retail vehicles in inventory on the last day of a given reporting period. Until we reach an optimal pooled inventory level, we view retail vehicles available for sale as a key measure of our growth. Growth in retail vehicles available for sale increases the selection of vehicles available to consumers, which we believe will allow us to increase the number of vehicles we sell. Moreover, growth in retail vehicles available for sale is an indicator of our ability to scale our vehicle purchasing, inspection and reconditioning operations.

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Results of Operations
The following table presents our revenue, gross profit, and unit sales information by channel for the periods indicated:
Three Months Ended March 31,
 20232022Change
 ($ in thousands, except per unit metrics)
Revenue:
Retail vehicle revenue, net$48,907 $183,081 (73.3)%
Other revenue, net1,652 8,712 (81.0)%
Wholesale vehicle revenue3,549 27,787 (87.2)%
Total revenue$54,108 $219,580 (75.4)%
Cost of sales:
Retail vehicle cost of sales$46,630 $180,867 (74.2)%
Wholesale vehicle cost of sales4,314 27,925 (84.6)%
Total cost of sales$50,944 $208,792 (75.6)%
Gross profit:
Retail vehicle gross profit$2,277 $2,214 2.8 %
Other gross profit1,652 8,712 (81.0)%
Wholesale vehicle gross loss(765)(138)454.3 %
Total gross profit$3,164 $10,788 (70.7)%
Unit sales information:
Retail vehicle unit sales2,292 6,714 (65.9)%
Wholesale vehicle unit sales252 1,975 (87.2)%
Average selling prices per unit (“ASP”):
Retail vehicles$21,338 $27,269 (21.7)%
Wholesale vehicles$14,083 $14,069 0.1 %
Gross profit per unit:
Retail gross profit per unit$993 $330 200.9 %
Other gross profit per unit721 1,298 (44.5)%
Wholesale gross loss per unit(334)(21)1,490.5 %
Total gross profit per unit$1,380 $1,607 (14.1)%
Non-financial metrics
Average monthly unique visitors543,911 822,856 (33.9)%
Average days to sale78 56 39.3 %
Retail vehicles available for sale1,650 5,464 (69.8)%

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We present operating results down to gross profit from three distinct revenue channels:
Retail Vehicles, Net: The retail channel within our Retail segment represents sales of used vehicles directly to our customers through our website.
Other, Net: The other channel within our Retail segment represents fees earned on sales of value-added products associated with the sale of retail vehicles.
Wholesale Vehicles: The Wholesale channel is the only component of our Wholesale segment and represents sales of used vehicles through wholesale auctions.
Three Months Ended March 31, 2023
Retail Vehicle Revenue, Net
Retail vehicle revenue decreased by $134.2 million, or 73.3%, to $48.9 million during the three months ended March 31, 2023, from $183.1 million in the comparable period in 2022. The decrease in retail vehicle revenue was partly due to a decrease in retail ASP, which was $21,338 for the three months ended March 31, 2023, compared to $27,269 for the three months ended March 31, 2022. This decrease in retail ASP was primarily a reflection of a return to a more traditional seasonality in the used vehicle market (as market supply increased) combined with a shift in our product mix towards older "value" vehicles compared to the prior period.
This decrease was also partly due to a decrease in retail unit sales, as we sold 2,292 retail vehicles in the three months ended March 31, 2023, compared to 6,714 retail vehicles in the three months ended March 31, 2022. The decrease in unit sales was associated with the closure in 2022 of inventory storage and reconditioning centers in California, Washington, and Texas and the associated reduction in inventory available for sale.
Following 2022's shift in strategy, retail revenue and unit sales are expected to stabilize during the remainder of 2023.
Other Revenue, Net
Other revenue decreased by $7.1 million, or 81.0%, to $1.7 million during the three months ended March 31, 2023, from $8.7 million in the comparable period in 2022. This decrease was primarily due to the decrease in unit sales as we sold 2,292 total vehicles in the three months ended March 31, 2023, compared to 6,714 total vehicles in the three months ended March 31, 2022.
Wholesale Vehicle Revenue
Wholesale vehicle revenue decreased by $24.2 million, or 87.2%, to $3.5 million during the three months ended March 31, 2023, from $27.8 million in the comparable period in 2022. This decrease in wholesale vehicle revenue was primarily due to a 87.2% decrease in wholesale vehicle unit sales to 252 during the three months ended March 31, 2023, compared to 1,975 wholesale vehicles sold in the three months ended March 31, 2022.
Cost of Sales
Cost of sales decreased by $157.8 million, or 75.6%, to $50.9 million during the three months ended March 31, 2023, from $208.8 million in the comparable period in 2022. The decrease was primarily due to decreased total unit sales as we sold 2,544 total vehicles in the three months ended March 31, 2023, compared to 8,689 total vehicles in the three months ended March 31, 2022.
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Retail Vehicle Gross Profit
Retail vehicle gross profit increased by $0.1 million, or 2.8%, to $2.3 million during the three months ended March 31, 2023, from $2.2 million in the comparable period in 2022. The increase was primarily driven by an increase in retail gross profit per unit, which grew to $993 per unit for the three months ended March 31, 2023, from $330 per unit in the comparable period in 2022. This was due to higher margins driven by improved inventory aging compared to the same period last year. Retail GPU for the comparable period in 2022 was abnormally low due to the sell-through of inventory acquired during periods of abnormally high used vehicle pricing.
Other Gross Profit
Other gross profit decreased by $7.1 million, or 81.0%, to $1.7 million during the three months ended March 31, 2023, from $8.7 million in the comparable period in 2022. The decrease in other gross profit was partly due to the decrease in other gross profit per unit to $721 during the three months ended March 31, 2023, from $1,298 per unit in the comparable period in 2022. Other revenue consists of 100% gross margin products for which gross profit equals revenue. Therefore, changes in other gross profit and the associated drivers are identical to changes in other revenue and the associated drivers.
Wholesale Vehicle Gross Loss
Wholesale vehicle gross loss increased by $0.6 million, or 454.3%, to $0.8 million during the three months ended March 31, 2023, from a loss of $0.1 million in the comparable period in 2022. The increase was primarily due to the increase in wholesale gross loss per unit, which grew to $334 per unit for the three months ended March 31, 2023, from a loss of $21 in the comparable period in 2022. The increase was primarily due to the liquidation of vehicles through the Wholesale channel as we continue to adjust to a smaller geographic footprint the higher cost of sales on a per unit basis than the same period in 2022.
Components of SG&A
Three Months Ended March 31,
 20232022Change
 ($ in thousands)
Compensation and benefits
$14,634 $30,514 (52.0)%
as a % of revenue27.0 %13.9 %
Marketing expenses4,530 11,909 (62.0)%
as a % of revenue8.4 %5.4 %
Other costs(1)
23,427 21,114 11.0 %
as a % of revenue43.3 %9.6 %
Total selling, general and administrative expenses$42,591 $63,537 (33.0)%
as a % of revenue78.7 %28.9 %
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(1)Other costs include all other selling, general and administrative expenses such as facility operating costs, vehicle shipping costs for internal purposes, corporate occupancy, professional services, registration and licensing, and IT expenses, and M&A transaction costs.
Selling, general and administrative expenses decreased by $20.9 million, or 33.0%, to $42.6 million during the three months ended March 31, 2023, from $63.5 million in the comparable period in 2022. The decrease was partly due to the decrease in compensation costs of $15.9 million, driven by the decrease in average headcount to 459 from 1,299. The decrease was also partly due to a decrease in marketing expense of $7.4 million, as marketing spend was adjusted to fit our smaller geographic footprint. Lastly, other costs increased by $2.3 million primarily due to costs related to closing facilities and integrating Carlotz, partly offset by reduced selling and logistics costs.
Selling, general and administrative expenses increased as a percentage of revenue from 28.9% to 78.7% as the Company committed to exiting locations and reducing its real estate presence to the West coast after the CarLotz merger. The increase as a percentage of revenue is caused by the fact that revenue from a location decreases quickly when it is closed, whereas occupancy and other costs continue to be incurred as the facility is wound down.
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Liquidity and Capital Resources
Sources of liquidity
Our main source of liquidity is cash generated from financing activities. Cash generated from financing activities through March 31, 2023 primarily includes proceeds from the IAC Merger and PIPE financing completed in October 2020, issuance of convertible notes and senior unsecured notes, and proceeds from the Flooring Line of Credit facility with Ally (the "Ally FLOC"). Refer to Note 9 - Borrowings and Note 14 - Related Party Transactions of the “Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements” for additional information. In addition, we obtained $95.7 million in cash from the CarLotz Merger (see Note 3 - Business Combinations of the “Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements” for additional information).
On May 27, 2021, the Company completed a private offering of its 4.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2026 (the “Notes”). The aggregate principal amount of the Notes sold in the offering was $150.0 million. The Notes accrue interest payable semi-annually in arrears at a rate of 4.75% per year. The Notes will mature on May 15, 2026, unless earlier converted, redeemed or repurchased by the Company. See Note 9 - Borrowings in the “Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements” for additional details regarding the Notes. The Company used approximately $28.4 million of the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes to pay the cost of the Capped Call Transactions (see Note 11 - Stockholders' Deficit of the “Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements”), and is using the remaining proceeds for working capital and general corporate purposes. On May 16, 2023, the Company announced that it is utilizing the contractual 30-day grace period with respect to the interest payment due on May 15, 2023 on the Notes. The Company and its advisors plan to communicate with debt holders to explore restructuring options.
On May 11, 2022, in conjunction with the acquisition of Fair (see Note 3 - Business Combinations of the “Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements”), the Company entered into an agreement with SB LL Holdco, Inc. ("SB LL Holdco") to a sale of $20.0 million aggregate principal amount of 6.00% Senior Unsecured Notes due May 11, 2025 ("Senior Unsecured Notes").
Since inception, the Company has generated recurring losses which has resulted in an accumulated deficit of $660.9 million as of March 31, 2023. During the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Company had negative operating cash flows of $36.3 million. In the future, we may attempt to raise additional capital through the sale of equity securities or through equity-linked or debt financing arrangements. If we raise additional funds by issuing equity or equity-linked securities, the ownership of our existing stockholders will be diluted. If we raise additional financing by incurring indebtedness, we will be subject to increased fixed payment obligations and could also be subject to restrictive covenants, such as limitations on our ability to incur additional debt, and other operating restrictions that could adversely impact our ability to conduct our business. Any future indebtedness we incur may result in terms that could be unfavorable to equity investors.
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Liquidity and Management's Plan
For the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company generated negative cash flows from operations of approximately $36.3 million and $98.4 million, respectively, and generated net losses of approximately $48.1 million and $57.0 million, respectively. As of March 31, 2023, the Company had unrestricted cash and cash equivalents of $58.8 million and total working capital of $40.8 million. Since inception, the Company has had negative cash flows and losses from operations which it has funded primarily through issuances of common and preferred stock and through a reverse recapitalization via the IAC Merger in October 2020. The Company has historically funded vehicle inventory purchases through its vehicle floorplan facilities (see Note 9 - Borrowings to the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements). The Company's current floorplan facility expires on December 9, 2023. The Company also continually assesses other opportunities to raise debt or equity capital.
The Company's plan is to raise capital to provide the liquidity necessary to satisfy its obligations over the next twelve months, and to secure a new or amended floorplan financing arrangement to provide continuity when the current floorplan expires. The Company may also pursue other strategic alternatives. The Company's ability to raise capital may be constrained by the price of and demand for the Company's Class A common stock. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to raise sufficient additional capital or obtain financing that will provide it with sufficient liquidity to satisfy its obligations over the next twelve months.
The Company continues to focus its strategy on improving unit economics and reducing selling, general, and administrative expenses and seeks to achieve these goals by eliminating less profitable fulfillment channels, consolidating operations into fewer physical locations, and reducing headcount accordingly. See Note 15 - Impairment, Restructuring and Discontinued Operations to the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements for additional information.
In accordance with Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-15, Disclosure of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern (Subtopic 205-40), the Company has evaluated whether there are conditions and events, considered in the aggregate, that raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date that the condensed consolidated financial statements are issued. Management determined as a result of this evaluation, the Company’s losses and negative cash flows from operations since inception, combined with its current cash, working capital position, and expiration of the current floorplan financing arrangement on December 9, 2023, raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
The condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a basis that assumes the Company will continue as a going concern which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities and commitments in the ordinary course of business. Accordingly, the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
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Debt obligations
See Note 9 - Borrowings of the “Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements” for information regarding the Company’s debt obligations.
Cash Flows — Three Months Ended March 31, 2023 and 2022
The following table summarizes our cash flows for the periods indicated:
Three Months Ended March 31,
 20232022
 ($ in thousands)
Cash Flow Data:  
Net cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash used in operating activities$(36,314)$(98,370)
Net cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash used in investing activities(945)(3,772)
Net cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash provided by (used in) financing activities(2,866)14,584 
Operating Activities
For the three months ended March 31, 2023, net cash used in operating activities was $36.3 million, a decrease of $62.1 million from net cash used in operating activities of $98.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022. The change is primarily due to a decrease in net loss of $9.0 million and an increase in cash provided by net sales of inventory of $44.1 million.
Investing Activities
For the three months ended March 31, 2023, net cash used in investing activities of $0.9 million was primarily driven by capitalization of website and internal-use software costs of $2.0 million, offset by proceeds from the sale of marketable securities of $0.8 million.
Financing Activities
For the three months ended March 31, 2023, net cash used in financing activities was $2.9 million, primarily due to net repayments on the Flooring Line of Credit of $2.7 million.
Contractual Obligations
The Company has various operating leases of real estate and equipment. See Note 5 - Leases to the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements for further discussion of the nature and timing of cash obligations due under these leases.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
We are a party to an off-balance sheet arrangement, as the Company guaranteed the lease obligation of two closed locations assigned to a third-party (see Note 5 - Leases to the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements for additional information). We are not a party to any other off-balance sheet arrangements, including guarantee contracts, retained or contingent interests, certain derivative instruments and variable interest entities that either have, or are reasonably likely to have, a current or future material effect on our consolidated financial statements.
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Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
See Part II, Item 7, "Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022. There have been no material changes to our critical accounting policies and estimates since our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 except as described in Note 2 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies to the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements under the heading "Recently Adopted Accounting Standards."
Available Information

Our website is www.shift.com. The Company files annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC under the Exchange Act. The Company makes available, free of charge, on its website its annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, as soon as reasonably practicable after such reports are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC. The Company's reports filed with, or furnished to, the SEC are also available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

In addition, we have posted on our website the charters for our (i) Audit Committee and (ii) Leadership Development, Compensation and Governance Committee, as well as our Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and Corporate Governance Guidelines. We will provide a copy of these documents without charge to stockholders upon written request to Investor Relations, Shift Technologies, Inc., 290 Division Street, Fourth Floor San Francisco, California 94103-4234. Our website and information included in or linked to our website are not part of this Form 10-Q.

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ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Not applicable to Smaller Reporting Companies.
ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
1. Disclosure Controls and Procedures
We maintain disclosure controls and procedures (the "Disclosure Controls") within the meaning of Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"). Our Disclosure Controls are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports we file or submit under the Exchange Act, such as this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC's rules and forms. Our Disclosure Controls are also designed to ensure that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. In designing and evaluating our Disclosure Controls, management recognized that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives, and management necessarily applied its judgment in evaluating and implementing possible controls and procedures.
As of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, we evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our Disclosure Controls, which was done under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer. Based on the evaluation of our Disclosure Controls, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that, as of March 31, 2023, our Disclosure Controls were not effective due to material weaknesses in the Company's internal control over financial reporting as disclosed below.
2. Material Weaknesses
As previously disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, we identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting. The first material weakness relates to lack of a process to demonstrate commitment to attracting, developing, and retaining competent individuals in alignment with objectives. This material weakness impacted the effectiveness of our control environment and our entity level controls. It resulted in the Company not maintaining a complement of personnel with an appropriate level of accounting knowledge, experience and training in the application of U.S. GAAP commensurate with its financial reporting requirements and the complexity of the Company’s operations and transactions. The second material weakness relates to insufficient selection and development of Information Technology General Controls ("ITGCs") to support the achievement of objectives.
A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. These material weaknesses could result in a misstatement of account balances or disclosures that would result in a material misstatement of our annual or interim consolidated financial statements that may not be detected.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements or prevent or detect all error and fraud. Any control system, no matter how well designed and operated, is based upon certain assumptions, and can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that its objectives will be met. Further, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that misstatements due to error or fraud will not occur or that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the Company have been detected. Projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
3. Plan to Remediate Material Weaknesses
The Company is devoting significant time, attention, and resources to remediating the above material weaknesses. The Company has executed or continues to execute the following steps intended to remediate the material weaknesses described above and strengthen our internal control:
The Company hired experienced finance and accounting executives in the positions of Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer, Corporate Controller, Director of SEC Reporting, and Director of Information Technology.
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The Company continues to train and develop experienced accounting personnel with a level of accounting knowledge and experience in the application of U.S. GAAP commensurate with our financial reporting requirements and the complexity of our operations and transactions.
The Company has engaged external specialists as needed to provide assistance in accounting for significant, non-routine or complex transactions.
The Company engaged external consultants to assist the Company in designing, implementing, and monitoring an appropriate system of internal control, including ITGCs.
The Company is executing several initiatives to strengthen our ITGC environment, including but not limited to:
Implementing additional training to ensure a clear understanding of risk assessment, controls and monitoring activities related to automated processes and systems and ITGCs related to financial reporting;
Implementing improved IT policies, procedures and control activities for key systems which impact our financial reporting; and
Dedicating an appropriate amount of resources to monitoring ITGCs related to financial reporting, including a sufficient complement of personnel with the appropriate level of knowledge, experience and training to ensure compliance with policies and procedures.
The Company has made significant progress in addressing the previously identified material weaknesses, and the results of management’s testing indicate that the Company’s control environment has improved since the material weaknesses were first identified. However, remediation efforts in the second half of 2022 were negatively impacted by factors including employee turnover in relevant roles and changes in business processes resulting from restructuring activities, as well as the business acquisitions completed during the period. As a result, management was unable to conclude that the material weaknesses were fully remediated as of March 31, 2023. The material weaknesses will not be considered fully remediated until we have concluded, through testing, that applicable controls have been designed and operating effectively for a sufficient period of time.
We plan to continue to devote significant time and attention to remediate the above material weaknesses as soon as reasonably practicable. As we continue to evaluate our controls, we will make the changes described above as well as any others determined to be needed to enhance our control environment and remediate the material weaknesses. We believe these actions will be sufficient to remediate the identified material weaknesses and strengthen our internal control over financial reporting; however, there can be no guarantee that such remediation will be sufficient. We will continue to evaluate the effectiveness of our controls and will make any further changes management determines appropriate.
4. Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Except as described above, there were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the quarter ended March 31, 2023, that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
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Part II - Other Information
ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
The Company may be subject to legal proceedings and claims that arise in the ordinary course of business. Other than the matters discussed below, Management is not currently aware of any matters that will have a material effect on the financial position, results of operations, or cash flows of the Company.
Stifel matter
On May 7, 2021, we were named in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc. v. Shift Technologies, Inc. 21-cv-04135) by a former financial advisor, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc. (“Stifel”), claiming that we are required to pay the former financial advisor certain compensation as a result of the IAC Merger. In addition, the complaint seeks punitive damages as a result of alleged unjust enrichment for the amount of the benefits allegedly conferred on Shift by Stifel. On August 24, 2022, Stifel's suit was dismissed with prejudice. On September 16, 2022, Stifel filed a Notice of Appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and formally filed its appeal with the Second Circuit on January 20, 2023. Shift filed its responsive pleading on April 20, 2023. Following the dismissal of Stifel's initial suit, the probable incurred losses related to the claim are immaterial as of March 31, 2023. Based on such information as is available to us, the range of additional reasonably possible losses related to the claim does not exceed $4.0 million, excluding any punitive damages which the Company cannot currently estimate. The Company believes the claim is without merit and intends to defend itself vigorously; however, there can be no assurances that the Company will be successful in its defense.
CarLotz stockholder matters
On November 4, 2022, a lawsuit entitled Derek Dorrien v. CarLotz, Inc. et al., Case No. 1:22-cv-09463, was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against CarLotz and the members of the CarLotz board of directors (the “Dorrien Action”). On November 4, 2022, a lawsuit entitled Sholom D. Keller v. CarLotz, Inc. et al., Case No. 2022-1006-NAC, was filed in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware against CarLotz and the members of the CarLotz board of directors (the “Keller Action” and together with the Dorrien Action, the “Actions”). The Dorrien Action alleges that the defendants violated Sections 14(a) (and Rule 14a-9 promulgated thereunder) and 20(a) of the Exchange Act by, among other things, omitting certain allegedly material information with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement (the “Transactions”) in the registration statement on Form S-4 (the “Registration Statement”) filed by us with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 26, 2022. The Keller Action alleges that the members of the CarLotz board of directors and Lev Peker, in his capacity as an officer of CarLotz, breached their fiduciary duties in connection with the Transactions. The Actions seek, among other things, injunctive relief, money damages and the costs of the Actions, including reasonable attorneys’ and experts’ fees. We believe that the plaintiffs’ allegations in the Actions are without merit; however, litigation is inherently uncertain and there can be no assurance that CarLotz’s or our defense of the action will be successful.
In addition, on October 3, 2022, a purported stockholder of CarLotz sent a demand to CarLotz and us regarding the Registration Statement (the “CarLotz Stockholder Demand”). The CarLotz Stockholder Demand alleges the Registration Statement omits material information with respect to the Transactions and demands that CarLotz, the CarLotz board of directors, and Shift provide corrective disclosures. Shift disagrees with and intends to vigorously defend against any claim, if asserted, arising from the CarLotz Stockholder Demand.
Delaware Section 205 Petition
On March 6, 2023, Shift filed a petition in the Delaware Court of Chancery under Section 205 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”) to resolve potential uncertainty with respect to the Company’s share capital. Such uncertainty was introduced by a recent decision in Garfield v. Boxed, Inc., 2022 WL 17959766 (Del. Ch. Dec. 27, 2022) that potentially affects the Company and many other similarly situated companies that were formed and became publicly traded as a special purpose acquisition company (“SPAC”). Out of an abundance of caution, the Company elected to pursue the remedial actions described below. Concurrently with the filing of the Petition, the Company filed a motion to expedite the hearing on the Petition, which was subsequently granted on March 6, 2023.

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In October 2020, the Company, which was then a SPAC named Insurance Acquisition Corp. (“IAC”), held a special meeting of stockholders (the “IAC Special Meeting”) to approve certain matters relating to the merger between IAC and a privately held company then called Shift Technologies, Inc. One of these matters was a proposal to amend and restate IAC’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “SPAC Charter”) in order to, among other things, increase the number of authorized shares of Class A common stock from 50,000,000 to 500,000,000 (such proposal, the “Share Increase Proposal” and, together with such other amendments to the SPAC Charter, the “Charter Proposals”). At the IAC Special Meeting, the Charter Proposals were approved by a majority of the outstanding shares of Class A common stock and a majority of the outstanding shares of Class B common stock of IAC as of the record date for the IAC Special Meeting, voting together as a single class. After the IAC Special Meeting, IAC and Shift Technologies, Inc. closed the merger pursuant to which the Company became the parent of Shift Technologies, Inc. (now named Shift Platform, Inc.), and the Company’s certificate of incorporation, as amended to give effect to the Charter Proposals and to change the Company’s name to Shift Technologies, Inc., became effective.
The recent ruling by the Delaware Court of Chancery in the Boxed case introduced uncertainty as to whether Section 242(b)(2) of the DGCL would have required the Share Increase Proposal to be approved by the vote of the majority of IAC’s then-outstanding shares of Class A common stock, voting as a separate class. The Company had been operating with the understanding that the Charter Proposals were validly approved at the IAC Special Meeting. In light of this recent ruling, however, to resolve potential uncertainty with respect to the Company’s share capital, the Company filed a petition in the Delaware Court of Chancery under Section 205 of the DGCL to seek validation of the Charter Proposals. Section 205 of the DGCL permits the Court of Chancery, in its discretion, to ratify and validate potentially defective corporate acts.
On March 6, 2023, the Court of Chancery granted the motion to expedite and set a hearing date for the Petition to be heard. On March 17, 2023, the hearing took place and the Court of Chancery approved the Company’s request for relief. The Court of Chancery then entered an order under Section 205 of the DGCL on March 17, 2023, declaring (i) the increase in aggregate number of authorized shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001, of the Company from 50,000,000 to 500,000,000 under the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) and the Certificate of Incorporation, including the filing and effectiveness thereof, are validated and declared effective retroactive to the date of its filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on October 13, 2020 and (2) all shares of capital stock of the Company issued in reliance on the effectiveness of the Certificate of Incorporation are validated and declared effective as of the date and time of the original issuance of such shares.
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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS

There have been no material changes to the risk factors included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, except as follows:

There are uncertainties introduced by our announcement of our exploration and evaluation of strategic alternatives to enhance stockholder value.

On May 11, 2023, we announced that our Board of Directors is exploring and evaluating strategic alternatives to enhance stockholder value, which may include (but may not be limited to) exploring a potential sale of certain operating businesses, third party investment or partnership opportunities and/or funding alternatives for our marketplace business, or the continued execution of our business plans. There is no set timetable for completion of the evaluation process, and we do not intend to provide updates or make any comments regarding the evaluation of strategic alternatives, unless our Board of Directors has approved a specific transaction or otherwise deems disclosure appropriate.

There can be no assurance that any such transaction will be pursued or consummated. We may also incur substantial costs in connection with the pursuit of strategic alternatives which are not ultimately consummated. Also, there are risks inherent with the consummation of any such transaction, such as the risks that the expected enhancement of shareholder value may not be realized, that unexpected liabilities may result from such transaction and that the process of consummating or the effects of consummating such a transaction may cause interruption or slow down the operations of our existing or continuing businesses.

Our level of indebtedness could have a material adverse effect on our ability to generate sufficient cash to fulfill our obligations under such indebtedness, to react to changes in our business and to incur additional indebtedness to fund future needs.

As of March 31, 2023, we had outstanding $150.0 million in principal amount under our Senior Convertible Notes (the “Notes”) which mature on May 15, 2026, as well as $20.0 million in principal amount under Senior Unsecured Notes due May 11, 2025. Additionally, we had $22.2 million aggregate principal amount of borrowings under our Flooring Line of Credit with Ally Bank (as defined in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Liquidity and Capital Resources”) as of March 31, 2023, which expires on December 9, 2023 (the "Ally FLOC"). Our interest expense resulting from indebtedness outstanding from time to time during the three months ended March 31, 2023 was $3.2 million.

If our cash flows and capital resources are insufficient to fund our debt service obligations, we may be forced to reduce or delay investments and capital expenditures, or to sell assets, seek additional capital, or restructure or refinance our indebtedness or utilize any available grace period with respect to interest payments. Our ability to restructure, refinance or replace our current or future debt will depend on the condition of the capital markets and our financial condition at such time. Any refinancing or replacement of our existing debt could be at higher interest rates and may require it to comply with more onerous covenants, which could further restrict our business operations. The terms of existing or future debt instruments may restrict us from adopting some of these alternatives. Any failure to make payments of interest and principal on our outstanding indebtedness on a timely basis or failure to comply with certain restrictions in its debt instruments, including the maintenance of certain liquidity requirements that further restrict its cash usage, would result in a default under its debt instruments. In the event of a default under any of our current or future debt instruments, the lenders could elect to declare all amounts outstanding under such debt instruments to be due and payable. Furthermore, our flooring line of credit is secured by substantially all of our assets and contains customary restrictive covenants which, among other things, restrict our ability to dispose of assets and/or use the proceeds from the disposition. We may not be able to consummate any such dispositions or to obtain the proceeds that it could realize from them and these proceeds may not be adequate to meet any debt service obligations then due.

In addition, our indebtedness under our flooring line of credit bears interest at variable rates. Because we have variable rate debt, fluctuations in interest rates may affect its cash flows or business, financial condition and results of operations. We may attempt to minimize interest rate risk and lower our overall borrowing costs through the utilization of derivative financial instruments, primarily interest rate swaps.


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Further, the indenture for our Notes permits a 30-day grace period for the nonpayment of interest before such nonpayment constitutes an event of default. We have notified the holders of our Senior Convertible Notes of our intent to utilize this grace period with respect to the interest payment due on May 15, 2023. If we are unable to pay such interest payment by the expiration of such grace period and such default in payment is not waived in accordance with the terms of the indenture, then the trustee for the Senior Convertible Notes or the holders of at least 25% of the aggregate principal amount of Senior Convertible Notes may declare the principal amount of, and all accrued and unpaid interest on, all of the Senior Convertible Notes then outstanding to become due and payable immediately.
ITEM 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS
None.

ITEM 3. DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES
None.
ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
None.
ITEM 5. OTHER INFORMATION
None.
ITEM 6. EXHIBITS
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit No.Description
3.1
10.1
31.1
31.2
32.1
32.2
99.1
101.INSInline XBRL Instance Document – the instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document
101.SCHInline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
101.CALInline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
101.DEFInline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document
101.LABInline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase Document
101.PREInline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document
104Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101)
Schedules and similar attachments have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(a)(5) of Regulation S-K. Shift agrees to furnish a supplemental copy of any omitted schedule or attachment to the SEC upon request.
*
Indicates management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.

SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
SHIFT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
/s/ Oded Shein
Oded Shein
Chief Financial Officer
June 29, 2023
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Exhibit 31.1

CERTIFICATIONS PURSUANT TO
SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

I, Ayman Moussa, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q/A of Shift Technologies, Inc;

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of registrant’s Board of Directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

/s/ Ayman Moussa
Ayman Moussa
Chief Executive Officer
June 29, 2023


Exhibit 31.2

CERTIFICATIONS PURSUANT TO
SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

I, Oded Shein, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q/A of Shift Technologies, Inc;

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of registrant’s Board of Directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

/s/ Oded Shein
Oded Shein
Chief Financial Officer
June 29, 2023



Exhibit 32.1

CERTIFICATIONS PURSUANT TO
SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
(18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350)

In connection with the Quarterly Report of Shift Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), on Form 10-Q/A for the three months ended March 31, 2023, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Report”), Ayman Moussa, Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) of the Company, hereby certifies, pursuant to § 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (18 U.S.C. § 1350), that to his or her knowledge:

(1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

(2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

/s/ Ayman Moussa
Ayman Moussa
Chief Executive Officer
June 29, 2023






Exhibit 32.2

CERTIFICATIONS PURSUANT TO
SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
(18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350)

In connection with the Quarterly Report of Shift Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), on Form 10-Q/A for the three months ended March 31, 2023, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Report”), Oded Shein, Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer) of the Company, hereby certifies, pursuant to § 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (18 U.S.C. § 1350), that to his or her knowledge:

(1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

(2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

/s/ Oded Shein
Oded Shein
Chief Financial Officer
June 29, 2023


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Entity Central Index Key 0001762322  
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Current Fiscal Year End Date --12-31  
Document Fiscal Period Focus Q1  
Document Fiscal Year Focus 2023  
Amendment Description Shift Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”) is filing this Amendment No. 1 on Form 10-Q/A (the “Amendment”) to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three-month period ended March 31, 2023, which was originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on May 17, 2023 (the “Original Report”), for the sole purpose of amending Exhibits 31.1 and 31.2 (the "Exhibits") that were filed with the Original Report. The Exhibits were amended to include the required certifications of internal control over financial reporting in paragraph 4 of the Exhibits, which were omitted due to administrative oversight.Except as described above, no other changes have been made to the Original Report and this Amendment does not modify or update disclosures in the Original Report and does not reflect subsequent events occurring after the date of the Original Report. Accordingly, this Amendment should be read in conjunction with the Original Report, which continues to speak as of the date of the Original Report, and the Company’s other filings with the SEC. The filing of this Amendment is not an admission that the Original Report, when filed, included any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make a statement not misleading.  
v3.23.2
Consolidated Consolidate Balance Sheets - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
Mar. 31, 2023
Dec. 31, 2022
Current assets:    
Cash and cash equivalents $ 58,784 $ 96,159
Restricted cash, current 7,907 10,632
Marketable securities at fair value 0 1,264
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $603 and $93 4,393 4,558
Inventory 34,019 40,925
Prepaid expenses and other current assets 6,257 7,657
Operating and finance lease assets, property and equipment, accounts receivable, and other assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations 12,749 17,226
Total current assets 124,109 178,421
Restricted cash, non-current 1,030 1,055
Marketable securities at fair value, non-current 0 707
Property and equipment, net 2,012 6,797
Operating lease assets 28,366 44,568
Finance lease assets, net 112 152
Capitalized website and internal use software costs, net 9,633 10,657
Goodwill 2,070 2,070
Deferred borrowing costs 193 268
Other non-current assets 1,971 3,323
Total assets 169,496 248,018
Current liabilities:    
Accounts payable 14,280 12,085
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities 23,136 33,872
Operating lease liabilities, current 5,490 8,865
Finance lease liabilities, current 50 271
Flooring line of credit 22,165 24,831
Operating and finance lease liabilities and other liabilities associated with assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations 18,159 15,432
Total current liabilities 83,280 95,356
Long-term debt, net 163,879 163,363
Operating lease liabilities, non-current 27,245 44,985
Finance lease liabilities, non-current 1,496 3,989
Other non-current liabilities 65 111
Total liabilities 275,965 307,804
Commitments and contingencies (Note 10)
Stockholders’ deficit:    
Preferred stock – par value $0.0001 per share; 1,000,000 shares authorized at March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively 0 0
Common stock – par value $0.0001 per share; 500,000,000 shares authorized at March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively; 17,227,910 and 17,212,130 shares issued and outstanding at March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively 2 2
Additional paid-in capital 554,379 552,968
Accumulated other comprehensive loss 0 (3)
Accumulated deficit (660,850) (612,753)
Total stockholders’ deficit (106,469) (59,786)
Total liabilities and stockholders’ deficit $ 169,496 $ 248,018
v3.23.2
Consolidated Consolidate Balance Sheets (Parenthetical) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
Mar. 31, 2023
Dec. 31, 2022
Statement of Financial Position [Abstract]    
Accounts receivable, allowance for doubtful accounts $ 603 $ 93
Preferred stock, par value (in dollars per share) $ 0.0001 $ 0.0001
Preferred stock, authorized (in shares) 1,000,000 1,000,000
Common stock, par value (in dollars per share) $ 0.0001 $ 0.0001
Common stock, authorized (in shares) 500,000,000 500,000,000
Common stock, issued (in shares) 17,227,910 17,212,130
Common stock, outstanding (in shares) 17,227,910 17,212,130
v3.23.2
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Mar. 31, 2022
Revenue    
Revenue $ 54,108 $ 219,580
Cost of sales 50,944 208,792
Gross profit 3,164 10,788
Operating expenses:    
Selling, general and administrative expenses 42,591 63,537
Depreciation and amortization 4,399 1,680
Loss on impairment 931 0
Total operating expenses 47,921 65,217
Loss from operations (44,757) (54,429)
Interest and other expense, net (2,791) (2,578)
Loss before income taxes (47,548) (57,007)
Provision for income taxes 55 41
Net loss from continuing operations (47,603) (57,048)
Loss from discontinued operations 494 0
Total comprehensive income (48,097) (57,048)
Net loss and comprehensive loss $ (48,097) $ (57,048)
Net loss and comprehensive loss per share, basic (in dollars per share) $ (2.84) $ (6.97)
Net loss and comprehensive loss per share, diluted (in dollars per share) $ (2.84) $ (6.97)
Weighted-average number of shares outstanding used to compute net loss per share, basic (in shares) 16,920,600 8,182,525
Weighted-average number of shares outstanding used to compute net loss per share, diluted (in shares) 16,920,600 8,182,525
Discontinued Operations, Held-for-sale    
Revenue    
Revenue $ 3,584  
Cost of sales 3,210  
Gross profit 374  
Operating expenses:    
Selling, general and administrative expenses 459  
Depreciation and amortization 20  
Loss on impairment 386  
Total operating expenses 865  
Loss from operations (491)  
Interest and other expense, net (3)  
Loss from discontinued operations 494  
Retail revenue, net    
Revenue    
Revenue 48,907 $ 183,081
Retail revenue, net | Discontinued Operations, Held-for-sale    
Revenue    
Revenue 2,123  
Other revenue, net    
Revenue    
Revenue 1,652 8,712
Other revenue, net | Discontinued Operations, Held-for-sale    
Revenue    
Revenue 270  
Wholesale vehicle revenue    
Revenue    
Revenue 3,549 $ 27,787
Wholesale vehicle revenue | Discontinued Operations, Held-for-sale    
Revenue    
Revenue $ 1,190  
v3.23.2
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity (Deficit) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
Total
Common Stock
Additional Paid in Capital
Accumulated Deficit
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss
Beginning balance (in shares) at Dec. 31, 2021   8,136,931      
Beginning balance at Dec. 31, 2021 $ 75,272 $ 1 $ 515,982 $ (440,711) $ 0
Increase (Decrease) in Stockholders' Equity [Roll Forward]          
Issuance of common stock upon exercise of vested options (in shares)   1,231      
Issuance of common stock upon exercise of vested options 3   3    
Repurchase of shares related to early exercised options (in shares)   (278)      
Vesting of early exercised options 35   35    
Stock-based compensation 4,517   4,517    
Issuance of common stock under stock-based compensation plans, net of shares exchanged for withholding tax (in shares)   130,029      
Issuance of common stock under stock-based compensation plans, net of shares exchanged for withholding tax (2,162)   (2,162)    
Net loss and comprehensive loss (57,048)     (57,048)  
Ending balance (in shares) at Mar. 31, 2022   8,267,913      
Ending balance at Mar. 31, 2022 20,617 $ 1 518,375 (497,759) 0
Beginning balance (in shares) at Dec. 31, 2022   17,212,130      
Beginning balance at Dec. 31, 2022 $ (59,786) $ 2 552,968 (612,753) (3)
Increase (Decrease) in Stockholders' Equity [Roll Forward]          
Issuance of common stock upon exercise of vested options (in shares) 0        
Vesting of early exercised options $ 14   14    
Stock-based compensation 1,416   1,416    
Issuance of common stock under stock-based compensation plans, net of shares exchanged for withholding tax (in shares)   15,780      
Issuance of common stock under stock-based compensation plans, net of shares exchanged for withholding tax (19)   (19)    
Other comprehensive income, net of tax 3       3
Net loss and comprehensive loss (48,097)     (48,097)  
Ending balance (in shares) at Mar. 31, 2023   17,227,910      
Ending balance at Mar. 31, 2023 $ (106,469) $ 2 $ 554,379 $ (660,850) $ 0
v3.23.2
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Mar. 31, 2022
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES    
Net loss $ (48,097) $ (57,048)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:    
Depreciation and amortization 4,447 2,019
Stock-based compensation expense 1,233 4,192
Amortization of operating lease right-of-use assets 3,388 2,162
Contra-revenue associated with milestones 601 159
Amortization of debt discounts 591 365
Loss on impairment 931 0
Loss on disposal of long-lived assets 3,460 0
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:    
Accounts receivable 845 130
Inventory 6,379 (37,762)
Prepaid expenses and other current assets 1,437 (2,179)
Other non-current assets 101 (27)
Accounts payable 1,934 (543)
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities (9,780) (6,243)
Operating lease liabilities (3,746) (1,925)
Other non-current liabilities (38) (1,670)
Net cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash used in operating activities (36,314) (98,370)
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES    
Purchases of property and equipment (390) (1,444)
Proceeds from sale of property and equipment 9 0
Proceeds from sales of marketable securities 806 0
Proceeds from commutation of reinsurance contracts 187 0
Proceeds from sale of discontinued operations 434 0
Capitalized website internal-use software costs (1,991) (2,328)
Net cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash used in investing activities (945) (3,772)
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES    
Proceeds from flooring line of credit facility 33,229 126,903
Repayment of flooring line of credit facility (35,895) (110,150)
Principal payments on finance leases (180) 0
Proceeds from stock option exercises, including from early exercised options 0 3
Payment of tax withheld for common stock issued under stock-based compensation plans (19) (2,162)
Repurchase of shares related to early exercised options (1) (10)
Net cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash provided by (used in) financing activities (2,866) 14,584
Net decrease in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash (40,125) (87,558)
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, beginning of period 107,846 194,341
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, end of period 67,721 106,783
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION    
Cash paid for interest 1,114 496
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF NON-CASH INVESTING AND FINANCING ACTIVITIES    
Capital expenditures in accounts payable 0 534
Vesting of exercised options 14 35
Stock-based compensation capitalized to internal-use software 183 325
Imputation of debt discounts reducing consideration transferred in business acquisitions 2,103 0
Establishment of lease right of use assets and lease liabilities    
Operating lease right of use assets 0 27,855
Operating lease liabilities 0 28,631
Other assets 0 1,716
Other liabilities 0 2,492
Termination of lease right of use assets and lease liabilities    
Operating lease right of use assets 11,884 0
Operating lease liabilities 11,744 0
Finance lease right of use assets 4,660 0
Finance lease liabilities $ 4,746 $ 0
v3.23.2
DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS
1. DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS
Shift Technologies, Inc., which, together with its subsidiaries we refer to as Shift, we, us, our, SFT, or the Company, conducts its business through its wholly owned subsidiaries. Shift Platform, Inc., formerly known as Shift Technologies, Inc. (“Legacy Shift”) was incorporated in the State of Delaware on December 9, 2013.
Shift Technologies, Inc. is a consumer-centric omnichannel retailer transforming the used car industry by leveraging its end-to-end ecommerce platform and retail locations to provide a technology-driven, hassle-free customer experience.
The Company currently is organized into two reportable segments: Retail and Wholesale. The Retail segment represents retail sales of used vehicles through the Company’s ecommerce platform and fees earned on sales of value-added products associated with those vehicles sales such as vehicle service contracts, guaranteed asset protection waiver coverage, prepaid maintenance plans, and appearance protection plans. The Wholesale segment represents sales of used vehicles through wholesale auctions or directly to a wholesaler (“DTW”).
v3.23.2
SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
2. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Basis of Presentation
Our unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”). Intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated. In the opinion of management, the interim condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments, which are normal and recurring in nature, necessary for fair financial statement presentation.
The interim condensed consolidated balance sheets as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the interim condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, condensed consolidated statements of stockholders' equity for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, and condensed consolidated statements of cash flows for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, and amounts relating to the interim periods included in the accompanying notes to the interim condensed consolidated financial statements are unaudited. The unaudited interim financial statements have been prepared on the same basis as the audited consolidated financial statements contained in the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, and in management’s opinion, reflect all adjustments, which are normal and recurring in nature, necessary for the fair financial statement presentation of the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2023, and its results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022 and cash flows for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022. The results for the three months ended March 31, 2023 are not necessarily indicative of the results expected for the fiscal year or any other periods. These interim financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related notes for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on March 31, 2023.
At the Company’s Special Meeting of Stockholders held on December 7, 2022, the Company’s stockholders approved a proposal to authorize a reverse stock split of the Company’s Class A common stock, at a ratio within the range of 1-for-5 to 1-for-10. The Board approved a 1-for-10 reverse split ratio, and on March 7, 2023, the Company filed a Certificate of Amendment to its Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Charter Amendment”) to effect the reverse split effective March 8, 2023. All share and per-share amounts have been retrospectively adjusted to reflect the impact of the reverse stock split.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of expenses during the reporting period. On an ongoing basis, the Company evaluates its estimates and assumptions, including those related to the valuation of vehicle inventory, capitalized website and internal-use software development costs, fair value of Class A common stock, financial instruments, convertible debt, stock-based compensation and income taxes.
Management bases its estimates on historical experience and various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ materially from those estimates.
Accounts Receivable
Accounts receivable are primarily due from auction facilities and partner financial institutions that provide financing to our customers.
The Company maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts that is calculated under the current expected credit loss (“CECL”) model. The CECL model applies to financial assets measured at amortized cost, and requires the Company to reflect expected credit losses over the remaining contractual term of the asset. As the large majority of the Company’s receivables settle within 30 days, the forecast period under the CECL model is a relatively short horizon. The Company uses an aging method to estimate allowances for doubtful accounts under the CECL model as the Company has determined that the aging method adequately reflects expected credit losses, as corroborated by historical loss rates.
Marketable Securities
The Company acquired equity and debt security investments as a result of the CarLotz Merger on December 9, 2022. Equity and debt securities are classified as Level 1 and Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy, respectively. Substantially all of the debt and equity securities were sold between December 31, 2022 and March 31, 2023 and $3 thousand was reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss for net losses on marketable securities.
Discontinued Operations
We review the presentation of planned business dispositions in the condensed consolidated financial statements based on the available information and events that have occurred. The review consists of evaluating whether the business meets the definition of a component for which the operations and cash flows are clearly distinguishable from the other components of the business, and if so, whether it is anticipated that after the disposal the cash flows of the component would be eliminated from continuing operations and whether the disposition represents a strategic shift that has a major effect on operations and financial results. In addition, we evaluate whether the business has met the criteria as a business held for sale. In order for a planned disposition to be classified as a business held for sale, the established criteria must be met as of the reporting date, including an active program to market the business and the expected disposition of the business within one year.
Planned business dispositions are presented as discontinued operations when all the criteria described above are met. For those divestitures that qualify as discontinued operations, all comparative periods presented are reclassified in the condensed consolidated balance sheets. Additionally, the results of operations of a discontinued operation are reclassified to income from discontinued operations, net of tax, for all periods presented in the condensed consolidated statements of operations. Results of discontinued operations include all revenues and expenses directly derived from such businesses; general corporate overhead is not allocated to discontinued operations.
Fair Value Measurements
Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. As such, fair value is a market-based measurement that should be determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability.
The authoritative guidance on fair value measurements establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy for disclosure of fair value measurements as follows:
Level 1 — Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
Level 2 — Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities, quoted prices in markets that are not active, or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.
Level 3 — Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.
Assets and liabilities measured at fair value are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The Company’s assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires management to make judgments and consider factors specific to the asset or liability. The Company recognizes transfers between the levels as of the actual date of the event or change in circumstances that caused the transfer. There were no transfers between levels during the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022. As of March 31, 2023, the Company had less than $0.1 million in assets and liabilities, respectively, measured at fair value.
Escrow Shares
In connection with the closing of the Company's merger with Insurance Acquisition Corp. on October 13, 2020, (the "IAC Merger"), 600,021 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock (the “Escrow Shares”) were deposited into an escrow account, with each former Legacy Shift stockholder listed as beneficiary in proportion to their percentage ownership of Legacy Shift common shares immediately prior to the IAC Merger. The Escrow Shares will be released to the beneficiaries if the following conditions are achieved following October 13, 2020, the date of the closing of the IAC Merger:
i.If at any time during the 12 months following the closing, the closing share price of the Company’s Class A common stock is greater than $120.00 over any 20 trading days within any 30 trading day period, 50% of the Escrow Shares will be released.
ii.If at any time during the 30 months following the closing, the closing share price of the Company’s Class A common stock is greater than $150.00 over any 20 trading days within any 30 trading day period, 50% of the Escrow Shares will be released.
iii.If, during the 30 months following the closing, there is a change of control (as defined in the IAC Merger Agreement) that will result in the holders of the Company’s Class A common stock receiving a per share price equal to or in excess of $100.00 per share (as equitably adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, special cash dividends, reorganizations, combinations, recapitalizations and similar transactions affecting the Class A common stock after the date of the IAC Merger), then all remaining Escrow Shares shall be released to the Legacy Shift stockholders effective as of immediately prior to the consummation of such change of control.
The Escrow Shares are legally outstanding and the beneficiaries retain all voting, dividend and distribution rights applicable to the Company’s Class A common stock while the shares are in escrow. If the conditions for the release of the Escrow Shares are not met, the shares and any dividends or distributions arising therefrom shall be returned to the Company. The Escrow Shares are not considered outstanding for accounting purposes, and as such are excluded from the calculation of basic net loss per share (see Note 17 - Net Loss Per Share).
The Escrow Shares meet the accounting definition of a derivative financial instrument. Prior to the cancellation of the first tranche on October 13, 2021, the number of Escrow Shares that would have ultimately been released was partially dependent on variables (namely, the occurrence of a change in control) that are not valuation inputs to a “fixed for fixed” option or forward contract, and therefore the Escrow Shares were not considered to be indexed to the Company’s Class A common stock and were therefore classified as a liability. The Company’s obligation to release the Escrow Shares upon achievement of the milestones was initially recorded to financial instruments liability on the condensed consolidated balance sheets at fair value as of the date of the IAC Merger. Subsequent changes in the fair value of the liability were recorded to change in fair value of financial instruments on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
As of the first anniversary of the IAC Merger on October 13, 2021, the first tranche of 300,011 Escrow Shares had failed to satisfy the $120.00 stock performance hurdle. As a result, the shares were returned to the Company for cancellation.
Following the return of the first tranche of the Escrow Shares to the Company on October 13, 2021, the Escrow Shares met the "fixed for fixed" option or forward contract criteria for equity classification. As such, changes in fair value of the Escrow Shares through October 13, 2021 were recorded in change in fair value of financial instruments on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. The fair value of the shares on October 13, 2021 of $6.3 million, measured using the Monte Carlo valuation model, was reclassified to additional paid-in capital on the condensed consolidated balance sheets.
On April 13, 2023 the second tranche of 300,010 Escrow Shares failed to satisfy the applicable stock performance hurdle. As a result, the shares were returned to the Company for cancellation.
Liquidity and Management's Plan
For the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company generated negative cash flows from operations of approximately $36.3 million and $98.4 million, respectively, and generated net losses of approximately $48.1 million and $57.0 million, respectively. As of March 31, 2023, the Company had unrestricted cash and cash equivalents of $58.8 million and total working capital of $40.8 million. Since inception, the Company has had negative cash flows and losses from operations which it has funded primarily through issuances of common and preferred stock and through a reverse recapitalization via the IAC Merger in October 2020. The Company has historically funded vehicle inventory purchases through its vehicle floorplan facilities (see Note 9 - Borrowings). The Company's current floorplan facility expires on December 9, 2023. The Company also continually assesses other opportunities to raise debt or equity capital.
The Company's plan is to raise capital to provide the liquidity necessary to satisfy its obligations over the next twelve months, and to secure a new or amended floorplan financing arrangement to provide continuity when the current floorplan expires. The Company may also pursue other strategic alternatives. The Company's ability to raise capital may be constrained by the price of and demand for the Company's Class A common stock. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to raise sufficient additional capital or obtain financing that will provide it with sufficient liquidity to satisfy its obligations over the next twelve months.
The Company continues to focus its strategy on improving unit economics and reducing selling, general, and administrative expenses and seeks to achieve these goals by eliminating less profitable fulfillment channels, consolidating operations into fewer physical locations, and reducing headcount accordingly. Please see Note 15 - Impairment, Restructuring and Discontinued Operations for additional information.
In accordance with Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-15, Disclosure of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern (Subtopic 205-40), the Company has evaluated whether there are conditions and events, considered in the aggregate, that raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date that the condensed consolidated financial statements are issued. Management determined as a result of this evaluation, the Company’s losses and negative cash flows from operations since inception, combined with its current cash, working capital position, and expiration of the current floorplan financing arrangement on December 9, 2023, raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
The condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a basis that assumes the Company will continue as a going concern which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities and commitments in the ordinary course of business. Accordingly, the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
Recently Adopted Accounting Standards
In June 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued guidance codified in Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") 2016-13, Financial instruments — Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments ("ASU 2016-13"), and subsequent related ASUs, which amends the guidance on the impairment of financial instruments by requiring measurement and recognition of expected credit losses for financial assets held. This ASU is effective for public and private companies’ fiscal years, and for interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2019, and December 15, 2022, respectively. The Company adopted ASU 2016-13 under the private company transition guidance beginning January 1, 2023. The adoption did not materially impact the Company's condensed consolidated financial statements.
v3.23.2
BUSINESS COMBINATIONS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Business Combination and Asset Acquisition [Abstract]  
BUSINESS COMBINATIONS
3. BUSINESS COMBINATIONS
Fair Dealer Services, LLC
On May 11, 2022, the Company completed the acquisition of certain automotive dealer marketplace assets and all of the issued and outstanding limited liability company interests of Fair Dealer Services, LLC (“Fair”), (collectively, the “Marketplace Assets”), from Fair Financial Corp., Fair IP, LLC (“Fair IP”), and (for limited purposes) Cayman Project 2 Limited (“SB LL Holdco”), pursuant to the terms of the Amended and Restated Purchase Agreement dated May 11, 2022. The Company purchased the Marketplace Assets in order to acquire software and other assets to enable the listing of inventory owned by third-party dealerships for sale on the Company’s ecommerce platform. The Company determined that the Marketplace Assets meet the definition of a business, and the purchase is properly accounted for as a business combination.
The Company incurred a total of $3.3 million of transaction related costs for the year ended December 31, 2022. There were no transaction costs incurred during the three months ended March 31, 2023 or 2022.
The consideration for the Marketplace Assets consisted of cash in the amount of $15.0 million (the “Cash Consideration”) and 206,698 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock (such shares being equal to 2.5% of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s Class A common stock as of immediately prior to the closing of the transactions contemplated by the Amended and Restated Purchase Agreement) (the “Stock Consideration”). The shares were issued and valued as of May 11, 2022 at a per share market closing price of $10.20.
The Company financed the acquisition of the Marketplace Assets through the issuance of the Senior Unsecured Notes to SB LL Holdco (see Note 9 - Borrowings). The stated interest rate on the Senior Unsecured Notes was determined to be below the market rate of interest, effectively providing a discount on the purchase price of the Marketplace Assets. Therefore, the Company recognized an imputed discount of $2.1 million on the Senior Unsecured Notes based on an estimated market rate of interest of 10.5%, and a corresponding reduction to the consideration transferred for the purchase of the Marketplace Assets.
The following table presents an estimate of consideration transferred:
(In thousands)
Cash consideration$15,000 
Fair value of shares of Shift Class A common stock issued2,481 
Allocation of proceeds from Senior Unsecured Notes(2,103)
Acquisition Consideration$15,378 
The intangible assets acquired were recorded at their fair values as of the acquisition date. Management estimated the fair value of intangible assets in accordance with the applicable accounting guidance for business combinations and utilized the services of third-party valuation consultants. The initial allocation of the consideration transferred is based on a preliminary valuation and is subject to adjustments. Balances subject to adjustment primarily include the valuations of acquired assets and tax-related matters. During the measurement period, the Company may record adjustments to the provisional amounts recognized.
Estimated Fair Value
Capitalized website and internal use software costs$12,500 
Other intangible assets - Trade name100 
Other intangible assets - Dealer network100 
Prepaid expenses and other current assets154 
Goodwill2,524 
Total fair value of purchase price$15,378 
Identifiable Intangible Assets
The Company acquired intangible assets that consisted primarily of developed software, which had an estimated fair value of $12.5 million, and which is included in capitalized website and internal use software costs, net on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. The Company also acquired other intangible assets with a total estimated fair value of $0.2 million. The Cost to Recreate Method was used to value the acquired developed software asset. Management applied judgment in estimating the fair value of this intangible asset, which involved the use of significant assumptions such as the cost and time to build the acquired technology, developer’s profit and rate of return. The other intangible assets are included in other non-current assets on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. The Company began amortizing the intangible assets on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives of three years for the capitalized internal use software and trade name, and one year for the dealer network. During the fourth quarter of 2022, the Company fully impaired these assets.
Goodwill
The goodwill represents the excess of consideration transferred over the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed and is attributable to the benefits expected from combining the Company’s expertise with Fair’s technology, resource base, and ability to effectively integrate the Marketplace Assets with the Company's existing ecommerce platform. This goodwill is not deductible for income tax purposes.
Pro forma information (unaudited)
The unaudited pro forma results presented below include the effects of the Fair acquisition as if it had been consummated as of January 1, 2021, with adjustments to give effect to pro forma events that are directly attributable to the acquisition which includes adjustments related to the amortization of acquired intangible assets. The unaudited pro forma results do not reflect any operating efficiency or potential cost savings which may result from the integration of Fair. Accordingly, these unaudited pro forma results are presented for informational purposes only and are not necessarily indicative of what the actual results of operation of the combined company would have been if the acquisition had occurred as of January 1, 2021.
Three Months Ended March 31, 2022
Revenue$219,580 
Loss from operations(59,240)
Net loss$(62,196)
Net loss per share, basic and diluted$(7.69)
Weighted-average number of shares outstanding used to compute net loss per share, basic and diluted8,089,211 
CarLotz, Inc.
On December 9, 2022, the Company completed the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding equity interests of CarLotz, Inc. (“CarLotz”), a Delaware corporation, pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the "CarLotz Merger") dated as of August 9, 2022 (the “Merger Agreement”). The CarLotz Merger increased the liquidity available to the combined entity by adding the cash resources of legacy CarLotz to the combined entity and obviating the need for legacy CarLotz to invest in technologies already developed by Shift. The Company determined that the CarLotz Merger is properly accounted for as a business combination.
During the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Company incurred an additional $0.1 million of transaction related costs for a total of $16.3 million since the date of acquisition, which are included in selling, general and administrative expenses on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
The following table presents an estimate of Merger Consideration transferred to effect the CarLotz Merger at Closing:
(In thousands)
Fair value of shares of Shift Class A common stock issued to CarLotz stockholders$22,411 
Replacement of CarLotz equity awards562 
Merger Consideration$22,973 
The fair value of shares of Shift Class A common stock issued as Merger Consideration was based on approximately 8.6 million shares of Shift Class A common stock, including 0.1 million shares issued pursuant to accelerated vesting of certain CarLotz RSU Awards in connection with the CarLotz Merger, and the closing price of Shift Class A common stock of $2.62 per share on December 9, 2022.
Consideration transferred was allocated to the tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on their fair values as of the acquisition date. Management estimated the fair value of tangible and intangible assets and liabilities in accordance with the applicable accounting guidance for business combinations and utilized the services of third-party valuation consultants. The initial allocation of the consideration transferred is based on a preliminary valuation and is subject to adjustments. Balances subject to adjustment primarily include the valuations of acquired assets (tangible and intangible), liabilities assumed, as well as tax-related matters. During the measurement period, the Company may record adjustments to the provisional amounts recognized. The allocation of the consideration transferred will be finalized within the measurement period (up to one year from the acquisition date).
Estimated Fair Value
Cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities$97,710 
Accounts receivable3,321 
Inventory7,062 
Other current assets1,756 
Property and equipment7,009 
Operating lease right of use assets25,119 
Finance lease right of use assets4,176 
Developed technology3,190 
Trademarks970 
Other non-current assets364 
Total assets150,677 
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities(11,899)
Operating lease liabilities, current(4,127)
Finance lease liabilities, current(273)
Other current liabilities(694)
Operating lease liabilities (24,713)
Finance lease liabilities(8,940)
Other non-current liabilities(373)
Total liabilities(51,019)
Net assets acquired99,658 
Gain on Bargain purchase$(76,685)
Consideration transferred$22,973 
Identifiable Intangible Assets
The fair value of the trademarks and developed technology intangible assets has been determined using the relief-from-royalty method, which involves the estimation of an amount of hypothetical royalty savings enjoyed by the entity that owns the intangible asset because that entity is relieved from having to license that intangible asset from another owner. In using this method, third-party arm’s-length royalty or license agreements were analyzed. The licensing transactions were selected as reflecting similar risks and characteristics that make them comparable to the subject assets. The net revenue expected to be generated by the intangible asset during its expected remaining life was then multiplied by the selected royalty rate. The selected estimated royalty rates for the trademarks and developed technology were 0.3% and 1.5%, respectively. The estimated after-tax royalty streams were then discounted to present value using a discount rate of 19.4%, to estimate the fair value of the subject intangible assets.
The trademarks are included in other non-current assets on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. The developed technology is included in capitalized website and internal use software costs, net on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. The Company fully amortized the intangible assets on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives of three months, as the Company is decommissioning the acquired intangible assets in favor of equivalent legacy Shift assets.
Bargain Purchase
Any excess of fair value of acquired net assets over the purchase price (negative goodwill) has been recognized as a gain in the period the acquisition was completed. We have reassessed whether all acquired assets and assumed liabilities have been identified and recognized and performed remeasurements to verify that the consideration paid, assets acquired, and liabilities assumed have been properly valued. The remaining excess has been recognized as a gain in the consolidated statement of operations. Factors believed to contribute to the bargain purchase include i) the management turnover, restructuring, and other indicators of distress experienced by CarLotz prior to the CarLotz Merger, ii) successful cash conservation efforts by CarLotz during the period from the execution of the CarLotz Merger Agreement to the closing of the merger, and iii) a significant decline in the market price of the Company's Class A common stock during the period from the execution of the Merger Agreement to the closing of the merger, which reduced the fair market value of the stock paid as consideration for the merger.
Pro forma information (unaudited)
The unaudited pro forma results presented below include the effects of the CarLotz Merger as if it had been consummated as of January 1, 2021, with adjustments to give effect to pro forma events that are directly attributable to the acquisition. For the three months ended March 31, 2023, the pro forma adjustments include a reduction in stock-based compensation costs to reflect expected amortization of assumed equity awards and a reduction in amortization expense to reflect the revaluation of certain technology assets. For the three months ended March 31, 2022, the pro forma adjustments include a reduction in stock-based compensation expense to reflect expected amortization of assumed equity awards, non-recurring transaction costs, and a gain on bargain purchase.
The unaudited pro forma results do not reflect any operating efficiency or potential cost savings which may result from the integration of CarLotz. Accordingly, these unaudited pro forma results are presented for informational purposes only and are not necessarily indicative of what the actual results of operation of the combined company would have been if the acquisition had occurred as of January 1, 2021.
Three Months Ended March 31, 2022
Revenue$282,594 
Loss from operations(81,919)
Net loss$(80,305)
Net loss per share, basic and diluted$(4.88)
Weighted-average number of shares outstanding used to compute net loss per share, basic and diluted16,472,676 
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PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Property, Plant and Equipment [Abstract]  
PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET
4. PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET
Property and equipment, net consists of the following (in thousands):
As of March 31, 2023As of December 31, 2022
Equipment$3,841 $4,545 
Furniture and fixtures332 1,278 
Leasehold improvements929 4,334 
Total property and equipment5,102 10,157 
Less: accumulated depreciation(3,090)(3,360)
Property and equipment, net$2,012 $6,797 
Depreciation expense related to property and equipment was $0.5 million and $0.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Depreciation expense related to reconditioning facilities for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022 was less than $0.1 million and $0.3 million, respectively. Depreciation expense related to reconditioning facilities is included in cost of sales with the remainder included in depreciation and amortization in the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
We classified $2.4 million and $0.2 million of gross property and equipment and accumulated depreciation, respectively, as held-for-sale at March 31, 2023. In addition, the Company recognized an impairment charge that was partly allocated to property and equipment. See Note 15 - Impairment, Restructuring and Discontinued Operations for additional information
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LEASES
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Leases [Abstract]  
LEASES
5. LEASES
The Company is a tenant under various operating and finance leases with third parties, including leases of office facilities, vehicle inspection, reconditioning locations, storage locations, and vehicle leases. The Company assesses whether each lease is an operating or finance lease at the lease commencement date.
The Company’s real estate leases often require it to make payments for maintenance in addition to rent as well as payments for real estate taxes, and insurance. Maintenance, real estate taxes, and insurance payments are generally variable costs which are based on actual expenses incurred by the lessor. Therefore, these amounts are generally not included in the consideration of the contract when determining the right-of-use asset and lease liability, but are reflected as variable lease expenses in the period incurred.
Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets and expense for these leases are recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
As the rate implicit in the lease is generally not readily determinable for the Company’s operating leases, the discount rates used to determine the present value of the Company’s lease liabilities are based on the Company’s incremental borrowing rate at the lease commencement date and commensurate with the remaining lease term. The incremental borrowing rate for a lease is the rate of interest the Company would have to pay to borrow on a collateralized basis over a similar term for an amount equal to the lease payments in a similar economic environment. The Company uses its incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at commencement date in determining the present value of lease payments.
The Company recognized a loss on impairment of operating lease right of use assets of $0.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023. There was no loss on impairment of operating lease right of use assets for the three months ended March 31, 2022.
The balance sheet classification of leases is as follows (in thousands):

Balance Sheet ClassificationMarch 31, 2023December 31, 2022
Assets
Operating leasesOperating lease assets$28,366 $44,568 
Operating and finance lease assets, property and equipment, accounts receivable, and other assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations9,706 9,572 
Finance leasesFinance lease assets, net112 152 
Operating and finance lease assets, property and equipment, accounts receivable, and other assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations180 4,155 
Total lease assets$38,364 $58,447 
Liabilities
Operating leasesOperating lease liabilities, current$5,490 $8,865 
Operating and finance lease liabilities and other liabilities associated with assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations14,918 10,138 
Operating lease liabilities, non-current27,245 44,985 
Total operating lease liabilities$47,653 $63,988 
Finance leasesFinance lease liabilities, current$50 $271 
Operating and finance lease liabilities and other liabilities associated with assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations2,824 5,036 
Finance lease liabilities, non-current1,496 3,989 
Total finance lease liabilities$4,370 $9,296 
Total lease liabilities$52,023 $73,284 
The Company’s lease costs and activity were as follows (in thousands):

Three Months Ended March 31,
20232022
Lease cost
Operating lease cost$9,241 $2,162 
Finance lease amortization86 — 
Finance lease interest109 — 
Short-term lease cost168 832 
Variable lease cost455 185 
Sublease income(241)— 
Total lease cost$9,818 $3,179 
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of operating lease liabilities
Operating leases - Operating cash flows$3,746 $1,925 
Finance leases - Operating cash flows$731 $— 
Finance leases - Financing cash flows$180 $— 
Lease assets derecognized with the sale of lease liabilities
Operating leases$11,884 $— 
Finance leases$4,660 $— 
Weighted average remaining lease term - operating leases (in years)5.655.14
Weighted average discount rate - operating leases8.53 %7.30 %
Weighted average remaining lease term - finance leases (in years)6.03— 
Weighted average discount rate - finance leases11.10 %— %
Leases have remaining terms of 1 year to 13 years. There are no options that are reasonably certain to be exercised. Sublease income is derived from two subleases as of March 31, 2023
Operating and finance lease liabilities by maturity date from March 31, 2023 were as follows (in thousands):
Year ended December 31,Operating LeasesFinance
Leases
2023$9,198 $592 
202410,860 693 
20259,456 708 
20269,339 724 
20279,353 680 
Thereafter13,935 4,091 
Total minimum lease payments$62,141 $7,488 
Less: Imputed interest14,488 3,118 
Total lease liabilities$47,653 $4,370 
As of December 31, 2022, the Company guaranteed the lease obligation of two of its closed locations assigned to a third-party that operates a used vehicle dealership. The Company continues as guarantor of such lease obligations with maximum total payments of $4,669 and will continue as the guarantor of one of the leases through March 2031 and the other lease through September 2031. The Company would be required to perform under the guarantee if the third-party is in default. As of March 31, 2023, the Company does not anticipate any material defaults under the forgoing leases, and therefore, no liability has been accrued.
LEASES
5. LEASES
The Company is a tenant under various operating and finance leases with third parties, including leases of office facilities, vehicle inspection, reconditioning locations, storage locations, and vehicle leases. The Company assesses whether each lease is an operating or finance lease at the lease commencement date.
The Company’s real estate leases often require it to make payments for maintenance in addition to rent as well as payments for real estate taxes, and insurance. Maintenance, real estate taxes, and insurance payments are generally variable costs which are based on actual expenses incurred by the lessor. Therefore, these amounts are generally not included in the consideration of the contract when determining the right-of-use asset and lease liability, but are reflected as variable lease expenses in the period incurred.
Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets and expense for these leases are recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
As the rate implicit in the lease is generally not readily determinable for the Company’s operating leases, the discount rates used to determine the present value of the Company’s lease liabilities are based on the Company’s incremental borrowing rate at the lease commencement date and commensurate with the remaining lease term. The incremental borrowing rate for a lease is the rate of interest the Company would have to pay to borrow on a collateralized basis over a similar term for an amount equal to the lease payments in a similar economic environment. The Company uses its incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at commencement date in determining the present value of lease payments.
The Company recognized a loss on impairment of operating lease right of use assets of $0.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023. There was no loss on impairment of operating lease right of use assets for the three months ended March 31, 2022.
The balance sheet classification of leases is as follows (in thousands):

Balance Sheet ClassificationMarch 31, 2023December 31, 2022
Assets
Operating leasesOperating lease assets$28,366 $44,568 
Operating and finance lease assets, property and equipment, accounts receivable, and other assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations9,706 9,572 
Finance leasesFinance lease assets, net112 152 
Operating and finance lease assets, property and equipment, accounts receivable, and other assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations180 4,155 
Total lease assets$38,364 $58,447 
Liabilities
Operating leasesOperating lease liabilities, current$5,490 $8,865 
Operating and finance lease liabilities and other liabilities associated with assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations14,918 10,138 
Operating lease liabilities, non-current27,245 44,985 
Total operating lease liabilities$47,653 $63,988 
Finance leasesFinance lease liabilities, current$50 $271 
Operating and finance lease liabilities and other liabilities associated with assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations2,824 5,036 
Finance lease liabilities, non-current1,496 3,989 
Total finance lease liabilities$4,370 $9,296 
Total lease liabilities$52,023 $73,284 
The Company’s lease costs and activity were as follows (in thousands):

Three Months Ended March 31,
20232022
Lease cost
Operating lease cost$9,241 $2,162 
Finance lease amortization86 — 
Finance lease interest109 — 
Short-term lease cost168 832 
Variable lease cost455 185 
Sublease income(241)— 
Total lease cost$9,818 $3,179 
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of operating lease liabilities
Operating leases - Operating cash flows$3,746 $1,925 
Finance leases - Operating cash flows$731 $— 
Finance leases - Financing cash flows$180 $— 
Lease assets derecognized with the sale of lease liabilities
Operating leases$11,884 $— 
Finance leases$4,660 $— 
Weighted average remaining lease term - operating leases (in years)5.655.14
Weighted average discount rate - operating leases8.53 %7.30 %
Weighted average remaining lease term - finance leases (in years)6.03— 
Weighted average discount rate - finance leases11.10 %— %
Leases have remaining terms of 1 year to 13 years. There are no options that are reasonably certain to be exercised. Sublease income is derived from two subleases as of March 31, 2023
Operating and finance lease liabilities by maturity date from March 31, 2023 were as follows (in thousands):
Year ended December 31,Operating LeasesFinance
Leases
2023$9,198 $592 
202410,860 693 
20259,456 708 
20269,339 724 
20279,353 680 
Thereafter13,935 4,091 
Total minimum lease payments$62,141 $7,488 
Less: Imputed interest14,488 3,118 
Total lease liabilities$47,653 $4,370 
As of December 31, 2022, the Company guaranteed the lease obligation of two of its closed locations assigned to a third-party that operates a used vehicle dealership. The Company continues as guarantor of such lease obligations with maximum total payments of $4,669 and will continue as the guarantor of one of the leases through March 2031 and the other lease through September 2031. The Company would be required to perform under the guarantee if the third-party is in default. As of March 31, 2023, the Company does not anticipate any material defaults under the forgoing leases, and therefore, no liability has been accrued.
v3.23.2
CAPITALIZED WEBSITE AND INTERNAL-USE SOFTWARE COSTS, NET
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Abstract]  
CAPITALIZED WEBSITE AND INTERNAL-USE SOFTWARE COSTS, NET
6. CAPITALIZED WEBSITE AND INTERNAL-USE SOFTWARE COSTS, NET
Capitalized website and internal use software costs, net consists of the following (in thousands):
 As of March 31, 2023As of December 31, 2022
Capitalized website domain costs – nonamortizable$385 $385 
Capitalized website and internal-use software development costs – amortizable14,280 12,294 
Less: accumulated amortization(5,032)(2,022)
Capitalized website and internal-use software development costs, net$9,633 $10,657 
Amortization of capitalized software development costs is included in depreciation and amortization in the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. Amortization of capitalized software development costs amounted to $3.2 million and $1.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
As of March 31, 2023, the remaining weighted-average amortization period for internal-use capitalized software intangible assets was approximately 1.24 years.
The expected annual amortization expense to be recognized in future years as of March 31, 2023 consists of the following (in thousands):
As of March 31, 2023
2023$1,871 
20242,488 
20251,382 
202658 
Development in progress3,449 
Total amortizable costs9,248 
Nonamortizable costs385 
Total capitalized website and internal-use software development costs$9,633 
The Company recognized an impairment charge that was partly allocated to internal-use capitalized software at December 31, 2022. See Note 15 - Impairment, Restructuring and Discontinued Operations for additional information.
v3.23.2
GOODWILL
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Abstract]  
GOODWILL
7. GOODWILL
On May 11, 2022 the Company acquired the Marketplace Assets for consideration totaling $15.4 million (see Note 3 - Business Combinations). The purchase price was allocated to tangible assets of $0.2 million and intangible assets of $12.7 million based on their fair values on the acquisition date. Goodwill represents the excess purchase price over the fair value of the net assets acquired. The excess of the purchase price over the amounts allocated to assets acquired was recorded to Goodwill, in the amount of $2.5 million, which was included in the retail segment.
Goodwill is not amortized but is tested at least annually or more frequently when events or circumstances change that would, more likely than not, reduce the fair value of a reporting unit below its carrying amount. The Company first assesses qualitative factors to determine if it is not more likely than not that the fair value of its reporting unit is less than its carrying amount.
During the three months ended March 31, 2023, there were no impairments or other changes in the carrying amount of goodwill. During the fourth fiscal quarter of 2022, management determined that indicators of impairment existed and performed a goodwill impairment test resulting in an impairment charge of $0.5 million. Management engaged third party valuation consultants to determine the fair value of the Retail segment (which also meets the definition of a reporting unit for goodwill impairment purposes). The fair value was determined using a market approach based on comparison to peer company valuation multiples.
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ACCRUED EXPENSES AND OTHER CURRENT LIABILITIES
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Payables and Accruals [Abstract]  
ACCRUED EXPENSES AND OTHER CURRENT LIABILITIES
8. ACCRUED EXPENSES AND OTHER CURRENT LIABILITIES
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consist of the following (in thousands):
 As of March 31, 2023As of December 31, 2022
Accrued payroll related costs$10,196 $14,048 
Provision for DMV refunds1,089 1,080 
Accrued sales taxes212 3,957 
Class A common stock subject to repurchase liability, current34 44 
Interest payable2,742 960 
Provision for sales returns and cancellations3,146 4,304 
Other accrued expenses5,717 9,479 
Total accrued expenses and other current liabilities$23,136 $33,872 
As of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, we classified $0.3 million and $0.1 million of accrued expenses associated with a long-lived asset disposal group as held-for-sale. See Note 15 - Impairment, Restructuring and Discontinued Operations for further information.
v3.23.2
BORROWINGS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
BORROWINGS
9. BORROWINGS
Senior Unsecured Notes
On May 11, 2022, in connection with the Fair acquisition (see Note 3 - Business Combinations), the Company entered into a Note Purchase Agreement (the “Note Purchase Agreement”) by and between the Company, each of the Company’s subsidiaries party thereto as guarantors (each, a “Guarantor” and, collectively, the “Guarantors”), and SB LL Holdco, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“SB LL Holdco”). Pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreement and the terms and conditions set forth therein, the Company agreed to issue and sell, and SB LL Holdco agreed to purchase, 6.00% Senior Unsecured Notes due May 11, 2025 with a principal amount of $20.0 million (the “Senior Unsecured Notes”) in a private placement in reliance on an exemption from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).
The Senior Unsecured Notes bear interest at a rate of 6.00% per annum and will mature on May 11, 2025. The Company may, at its option, prepay the Senior Unsecured Notes in their entirety (i) if prior to November 11, 2024, at 100% of the principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to (but excluding) such date and a premium specified therein, or (ii) if on or after November 11, 2024, at 100% of the principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to (but excluding) such date. The Senior Unsecured Notes are senior unsecured indebtedness of the Company.
As of March 31, 2023, discounts and deferred borrowing costs related to the Senior Unsecured Notes totaled $1.9 million and $0.2 million, respectively, and are included as a reduction to long-term debt, net on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. For the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Company had $0.3 million of contractual interest expense and $0.2 million of discount and deferred borrowing cost amortization, with both recorded to interest and other expense, net on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
The estimated fair value of the Senior Unsecured Notes (Level 2) as of March 31, 2023 was $17.1 million.
Convertible Notes
On May 27, 2021, the Company completed a private offering of its 4.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2026 (the “Notes”). The aggregate principal amount of the Notes sold in the offering was $150.0 million. The Notes are the Company’s senior unsecured obligations and will rank equally in right of payment with the Company’s future senior unsecured indebtedness, senior in right of payment to the Company’s future indebtedness that is expressly subordinated to the Notes and effectively subordinated to the Company’s future secured indebtedness, to the extent of the value of the collateral securing that indebtedness.
The Notes accrue interest payable semi-annually in arrears at a rate of 4.75% per year. The Notes will mature on May 15, 2026, unless earlier converted, redeemed or repurchased by the Company.
The Notes are convertible into shares of the Company’s Class A common stock at an initial conversion rate of 11.8654 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes (which is equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $84.28 per share of the Company’s Class A common stock). The initial conversion price represents a premium of approximately 27.47% over the last reported sale price of the Company’s Class A common stock on May 24, 2021, which was $66.10 per share. The conversion rate will be subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events prior to the maturity date. The Company will increase the conversion rate on a sliding scale to up to a maximum of 15.1284 per $1,000 principal amount for a holder who elects to convert its notes in connection with certain corporate events or the Company’s delivery of a notice of redemption, as the case may be, in certain circumstances.
Noteholders may convert their Notes at their option only in the following circumstances:
1.during any calendar quarter commencing after the calendar quarter ending on June 30, 2021, if the last reported sale price per share of our Class A common stock exceeds 130% of the conversion price for each of at least 20 trading days during the 30 consecutive trading days ending on, and including, the last trading day of the immediately preceding calendar quarter;
2.during the 5 consecutive business days immediately after any 10 consecutive trading day period (such 10 consecutive trading day period, the “measurement period”) in which the trading price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes for each trading day of the measurement period was less than 98% of the product of the last reported sale price per share of our Class A common stock on such trading day and the conversion rate on such trading day;
3.upon the occurrence of certain corporate events or distributions on our Class A common stock;
4.if we call such Notes for redemption; and
5.at any time from, and including, November 15, 2025 until the close of business on the second scheduled trading day immediately before the maturity date.
Conversions of the Notes will be settled in cash, shares of the Company's Class A common stock or a combination thereof, at the Company's election.
The Notes will be redeemable, in whole or in part (subject to a partial redemption limitation), at the Company’s option at any time, and from time to time, on or after May 20, 2024 and on or before the 40th scheduled trading day immediately before the maturity date, at a cash redemption price equal to the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date, but only if (i) the last reported sale price per share of the Company’s Class A common stock exceeds 130% of the conversion price on (1) each of at least 20 trading days, whether or not consecutive, during the 30 consecutive trading days ending on, and including, the trading day immediately before the date the Company sends the related redemption notice; and (2) the trading day immediately before the date the Company sends such notice; and (ii) a registration statement covering the resale of the shares of the Company’s Class A common stock, if any, issuable upon conversion of the Notes in connection with such optional redemption is effective and available for use and is expected, as of the date the redemption notice is sent, to remain effective and available during the period from, and including the date the redemption notice is sent to, and including, the business day immediately before the related redemption date, unless the Company elects cash settlement in respect of the conversions in connection with such optional redemption.
In addition, calling any Note for redemption will constitute a make-whole fundamental change with respect to that Note, in which case the conversion rate applicable to the conversion of that Note will be increased in certain circumstances if it is converted after it is called for redemption and on or prior to the business day immediately before the related redemption date. If the Company elects to redeem less than all of the outstanding Notes, at least $50.0 million aggregate principal amount of Notes must be outstanding and not subject to redemption as of the date the Company sends the related redemption notice.
Unamortized deferred borrowing costs at March 31, 2023 were $4.2 million, and are included as a reduction to long-term debt, net on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. For the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Company recorded $1.8 million of contractual interest expense and $0.3 million of deferred borrowing cost amortization, respectively. For the three months ended March 31, 2022, the Company recorded $2.1 million of contractual interest expense and $0.3 million, respectively, of deferred borrowing cost amortization. Contractual interest expense and deferred borrowing cost amortization was recorded to interest and other expense, net on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. The effective interest rate of the Notes is 5.73%.
The estimated fair value of the Notes (Level 2) at March 31, 2023 was $15.3 million.
The Company used a portion of the net proceeds from the sale of the notes to pay the cost of the Capped Call Transactions (see Note 11 - Stockholders' Deficit), and is using the remaining proceeds for working capital and general corporate purposes.
Ally Flooring Line of Credit
On December 9, 2021, the Company entered into a $100.0 million flooring line of credit facility with Ally Bank to finance its used vehicle inventory (the “Ally FLOC”), which is secured by substantially all of the Company’s assets. Borrowings under the Ally FLOC bear interest at the Prime Rate (as defined in the agreement) plus 1.50%.
Under the Ally FLOC, repayment of amounts drawn for the purchase of a vehicle should generally be made as soon as practicable after selling or otherwise disposing of the vehicles. Outstanding balances related to vehicles held in inventory for more than 180 days require monthly principal payments equal to 10% of the original principal amount of that vehicle until the remaining outstanding balance is 50% (or less) of the original principal balance. Prepayments may be made without incurring a premium or penalty. Additionally, the Company is permitted to make prepayments to the lender to be held as principal payments and subsequently reborrow such amounts.
The Ally FLOC requires the Company to maintain unrestricted cash and cash equivalents of not less than 20% of the total credit line, and to maintain an additional restricted cash balance equal to 10% of the total credit line. Additionally, the Ally FLOC requires the company to maintain at least 10% equity in the Company’s total inventory balance. As of March 31, 2023, the Company was in compliance with all covenants related to the Ally FLOC.
Additionally, the Company is required to pay an availability fee each calendar quarter if the average outstanding balance for such quarter is less than 50% of the average total credit line for such quarter. The Company was required to pay an upfront commitment fee upon execution of the Ally FLOC.
Effective as of February 7, 2023 (the “Effective Date”), the Company amended the Ally FLOC to (i) join the CarLotz Borrowers as borrowers under the Ally FLOC and terminate the inventory financing arrangement between the CarLotz Borrowers and the Ally Parties that was entered into prior to the Company’s acquisition of CarLotz, (ii) reduce the maximum available credit line under the Ally FLOC from $100 million to $75 million and (iii) require the Borrowers to make monthly principal reduction payments for each vehicle subject to the floor plan for more than 150 days rather than 180 days. In addition, effective February 1, 2023, the First Amendment increases the per annum interest rate applicable to Advances (as defined in the Ally Facility) to be equal to the prime rate designated from time to time by Ally Bank plus 175 basis points (from 150 basis points).
As of March 31, 2023, the interest rate on borrowings outstanding under the Ally FLOC was 9.50%. As of March 31, 2023, the Company had an outstanding balance under the facility of $22.2 million and $52.8 million of unused capacity. As of December 31, 2022, the Company had an outstanding balance under the facility of $24.8 million and $75.2 million in unused capacity.
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COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
10. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Litigation
The Company may be subject to legal proceedings and claims that arise in the ordinary course of business. Other than the matters discussed below, Management is not currently aware of any matters that will have a material effect on the financial position, results of operations, or cash flows of the Company.
Stifel matter
On May 7, 2021, we were named in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc. v. Shift Technologies, Inc. 21-cv-04135) by a former financial advisor, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc. (“Stifel”), claiming that we are required to pay the former financial advisor certain compensation as a result of the IAC Merger. In addition, the complaint seeks punitive damages as a result of alleged unjust enrichment for the amount of the benefits allegedly conferred on Shift by Stifel. On August 24, 2022, Stifel's suit was dismissed with prejudice. On September 16, 2022, Stifel filed a Notice of Appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and formally filed its appeal with the Second Circuit on January 20, 2023. Shift filed its responsive pleading on April 20, 2023. Following the dismissal of Stifel's initial suit, the probable incurred losses related to the claim are immaterial as of March 31, 2023. Based on such information as is available to us, the range of additional reasonably possible losses related to the claim does not exceed $4.0 million, excluding any punitive damages which the Company cannot currently estimate. The Company believes the claim is without merit and intends to defend itself vigorously; however, there can be no assurances that the Company will be successful in its defense.
CarLotz stockholder matters
On November 4, 2022, a lawsuit entitled Derek Dorrien v. CarLotz, Inc. et al., Case No. 1:22-cv-09463, was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against CarLotz and the members of the CarLotz board of directors (the “Dorrien Action”). On November 4, 2022, a lawsuit entitled Sholom D. Keller v. CarLotz, Inc. et al., Case No. 2022-1006-NAC, was filed in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware against CarLotz and the members of the CarLotz board of directors (the “Keller Action” and together with the Dorrien Action, the “Actions”). The Dorrien Action alleges that the defendants violated Sections 14(a) (and Rule 14a-9 promulgated thereunder) and 20(a) of the Exchange Act by, among other things, omitting certain allegedly material information with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement (the “Transactions”) in the registration statement on Form S-4 (the “Registration Statement”) filed by us with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 26, 2022. The Keller Action alleges that the members of the CarLotz board of directors and Lev Peker, in his capacity as an officer of CarLotz, breached their fiduciary duties in connection with the Transactions. The Actions seek, among other things, injunctive relief, money damages and the costs of the Actions, including reasonable attorneys’ and experts’ fees. We believe that the plaintiffs’ allegations in the Actions are without merit; however, litigation is inherently uncertain and there can be no assurance that CarLotz’s or our defense of the action will be successful.
In addition, on October 3, 2022, a purported stockholder of CarLotz sent a demand to CarLotz and us regarding the Registration Statement (the “CarLotz Stockholder Demand”). The CarLotz Stockholder Demand alleges the Registration Statement omits material information with respect to the Transactions and demands that CarLotz, the CarLotz board of directors, and Shift provide corrective disclosures. Shift disagrees with and intends to vigorously defend against any claim, if asserted, arising from the CarLotz Stockholder Demand.
Delaware Section 205 Petition
On March 6, 2023, Shift filed a petition in the Delaware Court of Chancery under Section 205 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”) to resolve potential uncertainty with respect to the Company’s share capital. Such uncertainty was introduced by a recent decision in Garfield v. Boxed, Inc., 2022 WL 17959766 (Del. Ch. Dec. 27, 2022) that potentially affects the Company and many other similarly situated companies that were formed and became publicly traded as a special purpose acquisition company (“SPAC”). Out of an abundance of caution, the Company elected to pursue the remedial actions described below. Concurrently with the filing of the Petition, the Company filed a motion to expedite the hearing on the Petition, which was subsequently granted on March 6, 2023.
In October 2020, the Company, which was then a SPAC named Insurance Acquisition Corp. (“IAC”), held a special meeting of stockholders (the “IAC Special Meeting”) to approve certain matters relating to the merger between IAC and a privately held company then called Shift Technologies, Inc. One of these matters was a proposal to amend and restate IAC’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “SPAC Charter”) in order to, among other things, increase the number of authorized shares of Class A common stock from 50,000,000 to 500,000,000 (such proposal, the “Share Increase Proposal” and, together with such other amendments to the SPAC Charter, the “Charter Proposals”). At the IAC Special Meeting, the Charter Proposals were approved by a majority of the outstanding shares of Class A common stock and a majority of the outstanding shares of Class B common stock of IAC as of the record date for the IAC Special Meeting, voting together as a single class. After the IAC Special Meeting, IAC and Shift Technologies, Inc. closed the merger pursuant to which the Company became the parent of Shift Technologies, Inc. (now named Shift Platform, Inc.), and the Company’s certificate of incorporation, as amended to give effect to the Charter Proposals and to change the Company’s name to Shift Technologies, Inc., became effective.
The recent ruling by the Delaware Court of Chancery in the Boxed case introduced uncertainty as to whether Section 242(b)(2) of the DGCL would have required the Share Increase Proposal to be approved by the vote of the majority of IAC’s then-outstanding shares of Class A common stock, voting as a separate class. The Company had been operating with the understanding that the Charter Proposals were validly approved at the IAC Special Meeting. In light of this recent ruling, however, to resolve potential uncertainty with respect to the Company’s share capital, the Company filed a petition in the Delaware Court of Chancery under Section 205 of the DGCL to seek validation of the Charter Proposals. Section 205 of the DGCL permits the Court of Chancery, in its discretion, to ratify and validate potentially defective corporate acts.
On March 6, 2023, the Court of Chancery granted the motion to expedite and set a hearing date for the Petition to be heard. On March 17, 2023, the hearing took place and the Court of Chancery approved the Company’s request for relief. The Court of Chancery then entered an order under Section 205 of the DGCL on March 17, 2023, declaring (i) the increase in aggregate number of authorized shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001, of the Company from 50,000,000 to 500,000,000 under the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) and the Certificate of Incorporation, including the filing and effectiveness thereof, are validated and declared effective retroactive to the date of its filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on October 13, 2020 and (2) all shares of capital stock of the Company issued in reliance on the effectiveness of the Certificate of Incorporation are validated and declared effective as of the date and time of the original issuance of such shares.
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STOCKHOLDERS' DEFICIT
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Equity [Abstract]  
STOCKHOLDERS' DEFICIT
11. STOCKHOLDERS' DEFICIT
Nasdaq Deficiency Letter and Reverse Stock Split
On October 4, 2022, the Company received a deficiency letter from the Listing Qualifications Department (the “Staff”) of The Nasdaq Capital Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) notifying us that, for the last 30 consecutive business days, the bid price for our Class A common stock had closed below the $1.00 per share minimum bid price requirement for continued inclusion on the Nasdaq Global Market pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5450(a)(1) (the "Bid Price Requirement"). Under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A) (the "Compliance Period Rule"), we have a 180-calendar day grace period, or until April 3, 2023 (the “Compliance Date”), to regain compliance with the Bid Price Requirement. During this period, our Class A common stock will continue to trade on the Nasdaq Capital Market. If at any time before the Compliance Date the bid price of Class A common stock closes at or above $1.00 per share for a minimum of 10 consecutive business days as required under the Compliance Period Rule, the Staff will provide written notification to the Company that it has regained compliance with the Bid Price Requirement (unless the Staff exercises its discretion to extend this 10 business day period pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(H)).
At the Company’s Special Meeting of Stockholders held on December 7, 2022, the Company’s stockholders approved a proposal to authorize a reverse stock split of the Company’s common stock, at a ratio within the range of 1-for-5 to 1-for-10. The Board approved a 1-for-10 reverse split ratio, and on March 7, 2023, the Company filed a Certificate of Amendment to its Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Charter Amendment”) to effect the reverse split effective March 8, 2023. On March 22, 2023, the Company was notified by Nasdaq that the Company has regained compliance with the Bid Price Requirement.
Capped Call Transactions
On May 27, 2021, in connection with the issuance of the Notes (see Note 9 - Borrowings), the Company consummated privately negotiated capped call transactions (the “Capped Call Transactions”) with certain of the initial purchasers, their respective affiliates and other counterparties (the "Capped Call Counterparties"). The Capped Call Transactions initially cover, subject to anti-dilution adjustments substantially similar to those applicable to the Notes, the number of the Company’s Class A common shares underlying the Notes. The Capped Call Transactions are expected generally to reduce the potential dilution to holders of the Company’s Class A common stock upon conversion of the Notes and/or offset the potential cash payments that the Company could be required to make in excess of the principal amount of any converted Notes upon conversion thereof, with such reduction and/or offset subject to a cap. The Capped Call Transactions are settled from time to time upon the conversion of the Notes, with a final expiration date of May 15, 2026. The Capped Call Transactions are settled in the same proportion of cash and stock as the converted Notes. The proportion of cash and stock used to settle the Notes is at the discretion of the Company.
The cap price of the Capped Call Transactions was initially approximately $148.725 per share, which represents a premium of approximately 125% above the last reported sale price per share of Class A common stock on Nasdaq on May 24, 2021, and is subject to certain adjustments under the terms of the Capped Call Transactions.
The Capped Call Transactions are separate transactions entered into by the Company with the Capped Call Counterparties, are not part of the terms of the Notes and will not change any holder’s rights under the Notes. Holders of the Notes will not have any rights with respect to the Capped Call Transactions.
The Company used approximately $28.4 million of the net proceeds from the offering of the Notes to pay the cost of the Capped Call Transactions. The Capped Call Transactions do not meet the criteria for separate accounting as a derivative as they are indexed to the Company's stock. The premiums paid for the Capped Call Transactions have been included as a net reduction to additional paid-in capital on the condensed consolidated balance sheets.
The settlement amount of the Capped Call Transactions at March 31, 2023 was zero. The settlement amount shall be greater than zero if the volume weighted average price ("VWAP") of the Company's Class A common stock is above $84.30 at any time over the 40 consecutive trading days immediately prior to settlement.
At-the-Market Offering
On May 6, 2022, the Company entered into a Controlled Equity OfferingSM Sales Agreement (the “Sales Agreement”), with Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. (the “Agent”), pursuant to which the Company may offer and sell, at its option, shares of the Company’s Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, having an aggregate offering price of up to $150.0 million (the “Placement Shares”), through the Agent, as its sales agent, from time to time at prevailing market prices in an “at-the-market offering” within the meaning of Rule 415 of the Securities Act, including sales made to the public directly on or through The Nasdaq Capital Market and any other trading market for shares of our Class A common stock (the “Offering”). Due to the Company's change at December 31, 2022 to a non-accelerated filer, the amount that can be raised through an offering is limited by Nasdaq requirements.
Under the Sales Agreement, the Company may from time to time deliver placement notices to the Agent designating the number of Placement Shares and the minimum price per share thereof to be offered. However, subject to the terms and conditions of the Sales Agreement, the Agent is not required to sell any specific number or dollar amount of Placement Shares but will act as Agent using their commercially reasonable efforts consistent with their normal trading and sales practices and applicable state and federal laws, rules and regulations and the rules of The Nasdaq Stock Market. The Company or the Agent may suspend the offering of Placement Shares by notifying the other party. The Offering will terminate after the sale of all of the Placement Shares subject to the Sales Agreement, or sooner in accordance with the Sales Agreement, upon proper notice by us and/or the Agents or by mutual agreement. The Company will pay the Agent a commission of up to 3.0% of the gross sales price of the shares of the Placement Shares sold under the Sales Agreement.
As of March 31, 2023, the Company had not sold any shares pursuant to the Sales Agreement. The Company's ability to raise capital under the ATM is currently constrained by restrictions on the Company's use of shelf registration statements.
CarLotz Warrants
As part of the CarLotz Merger, the Company assumed 718,342 public and 428,385 private warrants to purchase the Company's common stock at an exercise price of $163.06 related to CarLotz's prior merger with Acamar Partners.
Additionally, former CarLotz equity holders at the closing of CarLotz's previous merger are entitled to receive up to an additional 489,841 earnout shares. The earnout period expires on January 21, 2026 (the "Forfeiture Date") and the earnout shares will be issued if any of the following conditions are achieved:
i.If at any time prior to the Forfeiture Date, the closing trading price of the common stock is greater than $177.24 over any 20 trading days within any 30 trading day period (the “First Threshold”), the Company will issue 50% of the earnout shares.
ii.If at any time prior to the Forfeiture Date, the closing trading price of the common stock is greater than $212.69 over any 20 trading days within any 30 trading day period (the “Second Threshold”), the Company will issue 50% of the earnout shares.
iii.If either the First Threshold or the Second Threshold is not met on or before the Forfeiture Date, any unissued earnout shares are forfeited. All unissued earnout shares will be issued if there is a change of control of the Company that will result in the holders of the common stock receiving a per share price equal to or in excess of $141.80 (as equitably adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, special cash dividends, reorganizations, combinations, recapitalizations and similar transactions affecting the common stock) prior to the Forfeiture Date.
The liabilities associated with the warrants and earnout shares were immaterial as of March 31, 2023. There was not a material change in the fair value of the liabilities between the Merger Date and March 31, 2023.
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SEGMENT INFORMATION
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
SEGMENT INFORMATION
12. SEGMENT INFORMATION
The Company currently is organized into two reportable segments: Retail and Wholesale. The Retail segment represents retail sales of used vehicles through the Company’s ecommerce platform and fees earned on sales of value-added products associated with those vehicles sales such as vehicle service contracts, guaranteed asset protection waiver coverage, prepaid maintenance plans, and appearance protection plans. The Wholesale segment represents sales of used vehicles through wholesale auctions or directly to a wholesaler (“DTW”).
No operating segments have been aggregated to form the reportable segments. The Company determined its operating segments based on how the chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) reviews the Company’s operating results in assessing performance and allocating resources. The CODM is the Chief Executive Officer. The CODM reviews revenue and gross profit for each of the reportable segments. Gross profit is defined as revenue less cost of sales incurred by the segment. The CODM does not evaluate operating segments using asset information as these are managed on an enterprise-wide group basis. Accordingly, the Company does not report segment asset information. During the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company did not have sales to customers outside the United States. As of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company did not have any assets located outside of the United States.
Information about the Company’s reportable segments are as follows (in thousands):
Three Months Ended March 31,
20232022
Revenue from external customers
Retail$50,559 $191,793 
Wholesale3,549 27,787 
Consolidated$54,108 $219,580 
Segment gross profit (loss)
Retail$3,929 $10,926 
Wholesale(765)(138)
Consolidated$3,164 $10,788 
The reconciliation between reportable segment gross profit to loss before income taxes is as follows (in thousands):
 Three Months Ended March 31,
 20232022
Segment gross profit$3,164 $10,788 
Selling, general and administrative expenses(42,591)(63,537)
Depreciation and amortization(4,399)(1,680)
Loss on impairment(931)— 
Interest and other expense, net(2,791)(2,578)
Loss before income taxes$(47,548)$(57,007)
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STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION PLANS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Abstract]  
STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION PLANS
13. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION PLANS
The Company’s 2014 Stock Option Plan (the “2014 Plan”) provides for the grant of restricted stock awards and incentive and non-qualified options and to purchase Class A common stock to officers, employees, directors, and consultants. Options granted to employees and non-employees generally vest ratably over four to five years, with a maximum contractual term of ten years. Outstanding awards under the 2014 Plan continue to be subject to the terms and conditions of the 2014 Plan. The number of shares authorized for issuance under the 2014 Plan was reduced to the number of shares subject to awards outstanding under the 2014 Plan immediately after the IAC Merger. As a result, no further awards will be made under the 2014 Plan. Shares reserved for awards that are subsequently expired or forfeited will no longer be returned to the pool of shares authorized for issuance under the 2014 Plan.
At the Company's special meeting of stockholders held on October 13, 2020, the stockholders approved the 2020 Omnibus Equity Compensation Plan (the "2020 Plan"). The 2020 Plan provides for the grant of incentive and non-qualified stock option, restricted stock units ("RSUs"), restricted share awards, stock appreciation awards, and cash-based awards to employees, directors, and consultants of the Company. Awards under the 2020 Plan expire no more than ten years from the date of grant. The 2020 Plan became effective immediately upon the closing of the IAC Merger.
In June 2022, the Company's Compensation Committee adopted the 2022 Employment Inducement Plan and granted at total of 46,165 inducement RSU awards to form Fair employees joining the Company following the acquisition of the Marketplace Assets (see Note 3 - Business Combinations). The grants of restricted stock units were promised to each of the employees in their employment agreements or offer letters with the Company as a material inducement to employment in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4). All awards will vest subject to continued employment and vest on May 20, 2023.
In December 2022, the Company assumed various stock plans in connection with the CarLotz Merger (the "CarLotz Plans"). Outstanding awards under the CarLotz Plans continue to be subject to the terms and conditions of the CarLotz Plans. The number of shares authorized for issuance under the CarLotz Plans was reduced to the number of shares subject to awards outstanding under the CarLotz Plans immediately after the CarLotz Merger.
Activity related to employee and non-employee stock options for all plans is set forth below:
Number of
Shares
Weighted
Average
Exercise Price
Weighted Average
Remaining
Contractual Life
(Years)
Aggregate Intrinsic Value (000’s)
As of December 31, 2022
519,323 $26.02 4.95$
Granted— — 
Exercised— — 
Forfeited(4,927)31.99 
Cancelled (expired)(117,025)70.05 
As of March 31, 2023
397,371$12.98 5.95$— 
Exercisable as of March 31, 2023
393,867$12.84 5.94$— 
Activity related to employee and non-employee RSU awards is set forth below:
Number of
Shares
Weighted
Average
Grant Date Fair Value
Weighted Average
Remaining
Contractual Life
(Years)
Aggregate Intrinsic Value (000’s)
Unvested as of December 31, 2022
486,054 $29.30 1.01$724 
Granted123,688 2.16 
Vested(35,796)37.70 
Forfeited(89,298)20.69 
Unvested as of March 31, 2023
484,648$23.27 0.81$543 
Vested and unreleased22,673
Outstanding as of March 31, 2023
507,321
Stock-Based Compensation Expense
For the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company recorded stock-based compensation expense to selling, general and administrative expenses on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss of $1.2 million and $4.2 million, respectively. In addition, the Company capitalized stock-based compensation costs for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022 of $0.2 million and $0.3 million, respectively, to capitalized website and internal use software costs, net.
As of March 31, 2023, there was $9.0 million of unrecognized stock-based compensation expense that is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 1.21 years.
v3.23.2
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
14. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
Sales to Related Parties
The Company operated a one-sided marketplace (“OSM”) program whereby the Company acquired cars from various sources in Oxnard, California and sold them directly and solely to Lithia. The Company invoiced Lithia based on the purchase price of the car plus an agreed upon margin. During the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company recognized zero and $4.7 million, respectively, of sales from the OSM agreement with Lithia. The OSM program was terminated in the second quarter of 2022 with the last sale to Lithia taking place in March 2022.
Accounts Receivable from Related Party
In September 2018, the Company entered into a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) and a commercial agreement for Milestone 1 with Lithia and granted Lithia a warrant to purchase 8,666,154 shares of Legacy Shift common stock at an exercise price of $0.10 per share (the “Warrant Shares”). The Warrant Shares were scheduled to vest and become exercisable in six separate tranches of 1,444,359 shares each. Vesting and exercisability was dependent upon the achievement of the Milestones, as defined below. While the Warrant Agreement establishes general vesting terms for each of the six Milestones, each of the six Milestones contains substantive service or performance requirements, and were non-binding as neither the Company nor Lithia were obligated to perform until the commercial agreement associated with each Milestone was executed. All Warrant Shares became vested prior to the Vesting Termination Date and were exercised prior to the IAC Merger.
In connection with the negotiations related to Milestone 5, Lithia facilitated an agreement with Automotive Warranty Services (“AWS”) to sell and market AWS’s service plans, whereby the Company receives commission rates from AWS of comparable terms to those received by Lithia. In substance the Company paid Lithia, in the form of Warrant Shares, to make an upfront payment to Company’s customers on behalf of the Company as the Company achieved favorable pricing from AWS. The benefits of this agreement were guaranteed by Lithia for an initial term of five years commencing on the signing date of the agreement. Such arrangement was the first of a number of agreements to be entered into under the terms of Milestone 5 (see further discussion below). The estimated fair value of the in substance upfront payment to AWS was $2.8 million with an offsetting entry recorded to additional paid-in capital, representing a capital transaction with a related party.
Milestone 5 was met in October 2019 and the Company recorded the warrants to additional paid-in capital based on a fair value of $4.3 million. Milestone 5 was achieved after a mutual signed agreement was entered into evidencing that Lithia provided commercially best efforts to help the Company secure and maintain access to four finance and insurance products on par with a typical Lithia store. The fair value of the in substance upfront payment, other than the $2.8 million for AWS discussed above, was $0.4 million and was recorded to other non-current assets on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. The combined asset recorded of $3.2 million is subject to amortization over a five-year period expected period of benefit. During the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022 the Company amortized $0.1 million and $0.2 million, respectively of the asset as a reduction to finance and insurance sales, which is recorded within other revenue, net on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. As of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the remaining asset, net of amortization, was zero and $0.6 million, respectively.
In February 2023, the contract obtained pursuant to Milestone 5 was terminated, and the remaining $0.5 million of the Milestone 5 asset was expensed to selling, general and administrative expenses on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
Accounts Payable Due to Related Party
As of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022 payables and accruals to Lithia consisted of other miscellaneous expenses of $0.2 million and $0.2 million, respectively.
v3.23.2
IMPAIRMENT, RESTRUCTURING AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Restructuring and Related Activities [Abstract]  
IMPAIRMENT, RESTRUCTURING AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
15. IMPAIRMENT, RESTRUCTURING AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
During the fourth fiscal quarter of 2022, management identified indicators of impairment, including declines in our market capitalization, rising interest rates, and other unfavorable macroeconomic and industry factors, and performed a test for recoverability for each of the Company's pre-CarLotz Merger asset groups. Assets acquired as part of the CarLotz Merger were recorded at fair value on the acquisition date (see Note 3 - Business Combinations). Asset groups consisted of one asset group containing all operating assets and liabilities of the Company (the "Operating Asset Group"), and separate assets groups each containing a single closed facility that is subleased or held for sublease (the "Sublease Asset Groups"). The Operating Asset Group and certain Sublease Asset Groups were determined not to be recoverable, and as such management determined the fair value of these asset groups. The Operating Asset Group was valued with the assistance of third-party valuation specialists using a market approach based on comparison to peer company valuation multiples. The Sublease Asset Groups were valued using the income approach based on discounted estimated cash flows from subleasing the properties.
The Operating Asset Group and one of the Sublease Asset Groups were determined to have carrying values in excess of their fair values. As such, the Company measured a loss on impairment equal to the difference between the carrying value and the fair value of each impaired asset group. The loss on impairment was allocated to the assets within each respective asset group, except that no individual asset was reduced below its individual fair value. Within the Operating Asset Group, the fair value of individual assets was determined with the assistance of third party valuation specialists. Right of use assets were valued using the market approach, based on comparison to similar leased properties. Capitalized internal use software was valued using the relief-from-royalty approach, which involves the estimation of an amount of hypothetical royalty savings enjoyed by the entity that owns an intangible asset because that entity is relieved from having to license that intangible asset from another owner. Property and equipment was valued using the cost approach based on secondary market values of similar assets. Within the impaired Sublease Asset Group, the fair value of the impaired right of use asset was determined using the income approach based on discounted estimated cash flows from subleasing the properties.
The Company recognized a loss on impairment of long-lived assets related to various Sublease Asset Groups of $0.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023. There was no loss on impairment of long lived assets for the three months ended March 31, 2022. All impaired asset groups were contained in the Retail segment.
Facility Closures and Reduction in Force
During the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Company reduced its total headcount by approximately 42% as a result of continued efforts to improve overhead efficiency and elimination of redundancies resulting from the CarLotz Merger. During the three months ended March 31, 2023, the reduction in force resulted in total new cash charges of approximately $0.9 million, consisting primarily of severance and related personnel reduction costs included in selling, general and administrative expenses on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. In addition, the Company closed its facility in Downers Grove, Illinois and the former CarLotz headquarters facility in Richmond, Virginia.
Restructuring Plan
On July 22, 2022, the Company's Board approved the implementation of the Restructuring Plan designed to position the Company for long-term profitable growth by prioritizing unit economics, reducing operating expenses and maximizing liquidity. As part of the Restructuring Plan, the Company consolidated Shift’s physical operations to three West Coast locations in Los Angeles, Oakland, and Portland, closing seven existing facilities. The Company also restructured its workforce around the reduced physical footprint, eliminating approximately 650 positions or 60% of its workforce. The restructuring was substantially complete as of September 30, 2022. There were no restructuring charges recognized for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022.
The following table is a reconciliation of the beginning and ending severance liability for the three months ended March 31, 2023 related to the Restructuring Plan:

Balance at December 31, 2022$794 
Accruals and accrual adjustments— 
Cash payments(161)
Balance at March 31, 2023
$633 
Commutation of Reinsurance Contracts
During the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Company commuted all reinsurance contracts issued by the Company's Orange Peel Protection Reinsurance, Ltd. subsidiary. The commutation resulted in transfer of the Company's reinsurance-related assets and liabilities to the counterparty, in exchange for net cash consideration of $0.2 million. In connection with the commutation, the Company recognized a loss on disposal of $0.1 million included in selling, general and administrative expenses on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
Assets and Liabilities Held for Sale and Discontinued Operations
In connection with the acquisition of CarLotz, the Company acquired several real estate leaseholds. A plan of sale related to several of these real estate leases as well as certain assets and liabilities of the Orange Grove Fleet Solutions, LLC ("Orange Grove") subsidiary was adopted in December 2022. Orange Grove and three retail locations sold during the three months ended March 31, 2023 were determined to meet the criteria for classification as discontinued operations. The discontinued operations are included in the Retail and Wholesale segments. The impact on net loss of these leases and subsidiaries held for sale was immaterial for the year ended December 31, 2022.
Additional leasehold and related assets were classified as held for sale during the three months ended March 31, 2023. None of the assets and liabilities initially classified as held for sale during the three months ended March 31, 2023 met the criteria to be classified as discontinued operations. The Company recognized a loss on disposal of $3.1 million in connection with assets classified as held for sale during three months ended March 31, 2023. The loss on disposal was recorded in selling, general and administrative expenses on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
On February 2, 2023, the Company entered into and closed on an Asset Purchase Agreement with a private dealership group, pursuant to which the counterparty agreed to purchase the inventory and the lease-related assets and liabilities of the three retail locations for net cash consideration of $0.4 million.
The following table presents the loss associated with the sale, presented in the results of our discontinued operations below, in thousands:
Gross purchase price$434 
Net assets sold(820)
Loss on disposal$(386)
The carrying value of the net assets classified as discontinued operations sold during the period were as follows, in thousands:
Assets
Inventory$606 
Security deposits57 
Property, plant, and equipment306 
Operating lease assets1,577 
Total assets$2,546 
Liabilities
Operating lease liabilities$1,726 
Total liabilities$1,726 
Net assets sold$820 
The following table presents components making up the balance sheets line item consisting of the carrying amount of assets and liabilities classified as held for sale and the aggregate amounts of the classes of assets and liabilities of the facilities and entities classified as discontinued operations, in thousands:
March 31, 2023December 31, 2022
Assets
Held for sale:
Operating lease assets$7,813 $5,634 
Finance lease assets, net— 3,960 
Total held for sale assets7,813 9,594 
Discontinued Operations:
Accounts receivable, net460689
Prepaid expenses and other current assets217226
Property and equipment, net2,1862,584
Operating lease assets1,8933,938
Finance lease assets, net180195
Total discontinued operations assets4,9367,632
Total held for sale and discontinued operations assets$12,749$17,226
Liabilities
Held for sale:
Operating lease liabilities$13,018 $6,016 
Finance lease liabilities2,641 4,843 
Total held for sale liabilities15,659 10,859 
Discontinued Operations:
Accounts payable6570
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities272131
Operating lease liabilities1,9004,122
Finance lease liabilities183193
Other non-current liabilities8087
Total discontinued operations liabilities2,5004,603
Total held for sale and discontinued operations liabilities$18,159$15,462
v3.23.2
INCOME TAXES
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
INCOME TAXES
16. INCOME TAXES
The Company recorded a provision for income taxes of $0.1 million and $41 thousand for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The Company continues to maintain a full valuation allowance for its net U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets.
v3.23.2
NET LOSS PER SHARE
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Earnings Per Share [Abstract]  
NET LOSS PER SHARE
17. NET LOSS PER SHARE
The following table sets forth the computation of net loss per share, basic and diluted:
 Three Months Ended
March 31,
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)20232022
Net loss$(48,097)$(57,048)
Weighted-average number of shares outstanding used to compute net loss per share, basic and diluted16,920,600 8,182,525 
Net loss per share, basic and diluted$(2.84)$(6.97)
The following potentially dilutive shares were not included in the calculation of diluted shares outstanding for the periods presented as the effect would have been anti-dilutive:
 As of March 31,
 20232022
Escrow Shares300,010 300,010 
Public and private warrants1,146,727 — 
Earnout Shares489,841 — 
Convertible Notes1,779,834 1,779,834 
Stock options397,371 156,302 
Restricted stock units507,321 748,162 
Contingently repurchasable early exercise shares813 4,800 
Total4,621,917 2,989,108 
v3.23.2
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
18. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
The Company has evaluated subsequent events through the filing of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, and determined that there have been no events that have occurred that would require adjustments to our disclosures in the condensed consolidated financial statements, except for the following:
Review of Strategic Alternatives
On May 11, 2023, we announced that our Board of Directors is exploring and evaluating strategic alternatives to enhance stockholder value, which may include (but may not be limited to) exploring a potential sale of certain operating businesses, third party investment or partnership opportunities and/or funding alternatives for our marketplace business, or the continued execution of our business plans. There is no set timetable for completion of the evaluation process, and we do not intend to provide updates or make any comments regarding the evaluation of strategic alternatives, unless our Board of Directors has approved a specific transaction or otherwise deems disclosure appropriate.
There can be no assurance that any such transaction will be pursued or consummated. We may also incur substantial costs in connection with the pursuit of strategic alternatives which are not ultimately consummated. Also, there are risks inherent with the consummation of any such transaction, such as the risks that the expected enhancement of shareholder value may not be realized, that unexpected liabilities may result from such transaction and that the process of consummating or the effects of consummating such a transaction may cause interruption or slow down the operations of our existing or continuing businesses.
Convertible Notes
On May 16, 2023, the Company announced that it is utilizing the contractual 30-day grace period with respect to the interest payment due on May 15, 2023 on its convertible notes. The Company and its advisors plan to communicate with debt holders to explore restructuring options.
Nasdaq Market Capitalization Deficiency Letter
On April 19, 2023, Nasdaq staff (the "Staff") notified the Company that, for the last 30 consecutive business days, the Company’s Market Value of Listed Securities ("MVLS") was below the minimum of $35 million required for continued listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(b)(2) (the “Market Value Standard”). The Company has a period of 180 calendar days from the date of the notice, or until October 16, 2023 (the “Compliance Date”), to regain compliance with the Market Value Standard. During this period, Class A common stock will continue to trade on the Nasdaq Capital Market. If at any time before the Compliance Date the Company’s MVLS closes at or above $35 million for a minimum of 10 consecutive business days as required under the Market Value Standard, the Staff will notify the Company it has regained compliance and the matter will be closed. If the Company does not regain compliance with the Market Value Standard by the Compliance Date, the Staff will provide a written notification to the Company that Class A common stock will be subject to delisting. At that time, the Company may appeal the Staff’s delisting determination to a Hearings Panel (the “Panel”). However, there can be no assurance that, if the Company receives a delisting notice and appeals the delisting determination by the Staff to the Panel, such appeal would be successful. The Company intends to monitor its MVLS between now and the Compliance Date, and may, if appropriate, evaluate available options to resolve the deficiency under the Market Value Standard and regain compliance with the Market Value Standard.
v3.23.2
SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Policies)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Basis of Presentation
Basis of Presentation
Our unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”). Intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated. In the opinion of management, the interim condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments, which are normal and recurring in nature, necessary for fair financial statement presentation.
The interim condensed consolidated balance sheets as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the interim condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, condensed consolidated statements of stockholders' equity for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, and condensed consolidated statements of cash flows for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, and amounts relating to the interim periods included in the accompanying notes to the interim condensed consolidated financial statements are unaudited. The unaudited interim financial statements have been prepared on the same basis as the audited consolidated financial statements contained in the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, and in management’s opinion, reflect all adjustments, which are normal and recurring in nature, necessary for the fair financial statement presentation of the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2023, and its results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022 and cash flows for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022. The results for the three months ended March 31, 2023 are not necessarily indicative of the results expected for the fiscal year or any other periods. These interim financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related notes for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on March 31, 2023.
At the Company’s Special Meeting of Stockholders held on December 7, 2022, the Company’s stockholders approved a proposal to authorize a reverse stock split of the Company’s Class A common stock, at a ratio within the range of 1-for-5 to 1-for-10. The Board approved a 1-for-10 reverse split ratio, and on March 7, 2023, the Company filed a Certificate of Amendment to its Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Charter Amendment”) to effect the reverse split effective March 8, 2023. All share and per-share amounts have been retrospectively adjusted to reflect the impact of the reverse stock split.
Use of Estimates
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of expenses during the reporting period. On an ongoing basis, the Company evaluates its estimates and assumptions, including those related to the valuation of vehicle inventory, capitalized website and internal-use software development costs, fair value of Class A common stock, financial instruments, convertible debt, stock-based compensation and income taxes.
Management bases its estimates on historical experience and various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ materially from those estimates.
Accounts Receivable
Accounts Receivable
Accounts receivable are primarily due from auction facilities and partner financial institutions that provide financing to our customers.
The Company maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts that is calculated under the current expected credit loss (“CECL”) model. The CECL model applies to financial assets measured at amortized cost, and requires the Company to reflect expected credit losses over the remaining contractual term of the asset. As the large majority of the Company’s receivables settle within 30 days, the forecast period under the CECL model is a relatively short horizon. The Company uses an aging method to estimate allowances for doubtful accounts under the CECL model as the Company has determined that the aging method adequately reflects expected credit losses, as corroborated by historical loss rates.
Marketable Securities Marketable SecuritiesThe Company acquired equity and debt security investments as a result of the CarLotz Merger on December 9, 2022. Equity and debt securities are classified as Level 1 and Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy, respectively.
Fair Value Measurements
Fair Value Measurements
Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. As such, fair value is a market-based measurement that should be determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability.
The authoritative guidance on fair value measurements establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy for disclosure of fair value measurements as follows:
Level 1 — Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
Level 2 — Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities, quoted prices in markets that are not active, or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.
Level 3 — Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.Assets and liabilities measured at fair value are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The Company’s assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires management to make judgments and consider factors specific to the asset or liability. The Company recognizes transfers between the levels as of the actual date of the event or change in circumstances that caused the transfer. There were no transfers between levels during the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022.
Recently Adopted Accounting Standards
Recently Adopted Accounting Standards
In June 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued guidance codified in Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") 2016-13, Financial instruments — Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments ("ASU 2016-13"), and subsequent related ASUs, which amends the guidance on the impairment of financial instruments by requiring measurement and recognition of expected credit losses for financial assets held. This ASU is effective for public and private companies’ fiscal years, and for interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2019, and December 15, 2022, respectively. The Company adopted ASU 2016-13 under the private company transition guidance beginning January 1, 2023. The adoption did not materially impact the Company's condensed consolidated financial statements.
Discontinued Operations
Discontinued Operations
We review the presentation of planned business dispositions in the condensed consolidated financial statements based on the available information and events that have occurred. The review consists of evaluating whether the business meets the definition of a component for which the operations and cash flows are clearly distinguishable from the other components of the business, and if so, whether it is anticipated that after the disposal the cash flows of the component would be eliminated from continuing operations and whether the disposition represents a strategic shift that has a major effect on operations and financial results. In addition, we evaluate whether the business has met the criteria as a business held for sale. In order for a planned disposition to be classified as a business held for sale, the established criteria must be met as of the reporting date, including an active program to market the business and the expected disposition of the business within one year.
Planned business dispositions are presented as discontinued operations when all the criteria described above are met. For those divestitures that qualify as discontinued operations, all comparative periods presented are reclassified in the condensed consolidated balance sheets. Additionally, the results of operations of a discontinued operation are reclassified to income from discontinued operations, net of tax, for all periods presented in the condensed consolidated statements of operations. Results of discontinued operations include all revenues and expenses directly derived from such businesses; general corporate overhead is not allocated to discontinued operations.
v3.23.2
BUSINESS COMBINATIONS (Tables)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Business Combination and Asset Acquisition [Abstract]  
Schedule of Business Acquisitions, by Acquisition
The following table presents an estimate of consideration transferred:
(In thousands)
Cash consideration$15,000 
Fair value of shares of Shift Class A common stock issued2,481 
Allocation of proceeds from Senior Unsecured Notes(2,103)
Acquisition Consideration$15,378 
During the measurement period, the Company may record adjustments to the provisional amounts recognized.
Estimated Fair Value
Capitalized website and internal use software costs$12,500 
Other intangible assets - Trade name100 
Other intangible assets - Dealer network100 
Prepaid expenses and other current assets154 
Goodwill2,524 
Total fair value of purchase price$15,378 
The following table presents an estimate of Merger Consideration transferred to effect the CarLotz Merger at Closing:
(In thousands)
Fair value of shares of Shift Class A common stock issued to CarLotz stockholders$22,411 
Replacement of CarLotz equity awards562 
Merger Consideration$22,973 
Schedule of Business Acquisition, Pro Forma Information
Three Months Ended March 31, 2022
Revenue$219,580 
Loss from operations(59,240)
Net loss$(62,196)
Net loss per share, basic and diluted$(7.69)
Weighted-average number of shares outstanding used to compute net loss per share, basic and diluted8,089,211 
Three Months Ended March 31, 2022
Revenue$282,594 
Loss from operations(81,919)
Net loss$(80,305)
Net loss per share, basic and diluted$(4.88)
Weighted-average number of shares outstanding used to compute net loss per share, basic and diluted16,472,676 
Schedule of Recognized Identified Assets Acquired and Liabilities Assumed The allocation of the consideration transferred will be finalized within the measurement period (up to one year from the acquisition date).
Estimated Fair Value
Cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities$97,710 
Accounts receivable3,321 
Inventory7,062 
Other current assets1,756 
Property and equipment7,009 
Operating lease right of use assets25,119 
Finance lease right of use assets4,176 
Developed technology3,190 
Trademarks970 
Other non-current assets364 
Total assets150,677 
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities(11,899)
Operating lease liabilities, current(4,127)
Finance lease liabilities, current(273)
Other current liabilities(694)
Operating lease liabilities (24,713)
Finance lease liabilities(8,940)
Other non-current liabilities(373)
Total liabilities(51,019)
Net assets acquired99,658 
Gain on Bargain purchase$(76,685)
Consideration transferred$22,973 
v3.23.2
PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET (Tables)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Property, Plant and Equipment [Abstract]  
Schedule of Property and Equipment, Net
Property and equipment, net consists of the following (in thousands):
As of March 31, 2023As of December 31, 2022
Equipment$3,841 $4,545 
Furniture and fixtures332 1,278 
Leasehold improvements929 4,334 
Total property and equipment5,102 10,157 
Less: accumulated depreciation(3,090)(3,360)
Property and equipment, net$2,012 $6,797 
v3.23.2
LEASES (Tables)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Leases [Abstract]  
Schedule of Balance Sheet Information Related to Leases
The balance sheet classification of leases is as follows (in thousands):

Balance Sheet ClassificationMarch 31, 2023December 31, 2022
Assets
Operating leasesOperating lease assets$28,366 $44,568 
Operating and finance lease assets, property and equipment, accounts receivable, and other assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations9,706 9,572 
Finance leasesFinance lease assets, net112 152 
Operating and finance lease assets, property and equipment, accounts receivable, and other assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations180 4,155 
Total lease assets$38,364 $58,447 
Liabilities
Operating leasesOperating lease liabilities, current$5,490 $8,865 
Operating and finance lease liabilities and other liabilities associated with assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations14,918 10,138 
Operating lease liabilities, non-current27,245 44,985 
Total operating lease liabilities$47,653 $63,988 
Finance leasesFinance lease liabilities, current$50 $271 
Operating and finance lease liabilities and other liabilities associated with assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations2,824 5,036 
Finance lease liabilities, non-current1,496 3,989 
Total finance lease liabilities$4,370 $9,296 
Total lease liabilities$52,023 $73,284 
Schedule of Lease Costs and Activity
The Company’s lease costs and activity were as follows (in thousands):

Three Months Ended March 31,
20232022
Lease cost
Operating lease cost$9,241 $2,162 
Finance lease amortization86 — 
Finance lease interest109 — 
Short-term lease cost168 832 
Variable lease cost455 185 
Sublease income(241)— 
Total lease cost$9,818 $3,179 
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of operating lease liabilities
Operating leases - Operating cash flows$3,746 $1,925 
Finance leases - Operating cash flows$731 $— 
Finance leases - Financing cash flows$180 $— 
Lease assets derecognized with the sale of lease liabilities
Operating leases$11,884 $— 
Finance leases$4,660 $— 
Weighted average remaining lease term - operating leases (in years)5.655.14
Weighted average discount rate - operating leases8.53 %7.30 %
Weighted average remaining lease term - finance leases (in years)6.03— 
Weighted average discount rate - finance leases11.10 %— %
Schedule of Operating Lease Liabilities by Maturity Date
Operating and finance lease liabilities by maturity date from March 31, 2023 were as follows (in thousands):
Year ended December 31,Operating LeasesFinance
Leases
2023$9,198 $592 
202410,860 693 
20259,456 708 
20269,339 724 
20279,353 680 
Thereafter13,935 4,091 
Total minimum lease payments$62,141 $7,488 
Less: Imputed interest14,488 3,118 
Total lease liabilities$47,653 $4,370 
Schedule of Finance Lease, Liability, Fiscal Year Maturity
Operating and finance lease liabilities by maturity date from March 31, 2023 were as follows (in thousands):
Year ended December 31,Operating LeasesFinance
Leases
2023$9,198 $592 
202410,860 693 
20259,456 708 
20269,339 724 
20279,353 680 
Thereafter13,935 4,091 
Total minimum lease payments$62,141 $7,488 
Less: Imputed interest14,488 3,118 
Total lease liabilities$47,653 $4,370 
v3.23.2
CAPITALIZED WEBSITE AND INTERNAL-USE SOFTWARE COSTS, NET (Tables)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Abstract]  
Schedule of Capitalized Website and Internal-Use Software Development Costs
Capitalized website and internal use software costs, net consists of the following (in thousands):
 As of March 31, 2023As of December 31, 2022
Capitalized website domain costs – nonamortizable$385 $385 
Capitalized website and internal-use software development costs – amortizable14,280 12,294 
Less: accumulated amortization(5,032)(2,022)
Capitalized website and internal-use software development costs, net$9,633 $10,657 
Schedule of Capitalized Website and Internal-Use Software Development Costs
Capitalized website and internal use software costs, net consists of the following (in thousands):
 As of March 31, 2023As of December 31, 2022
Capitalized website domain costs – nonamortizable$385 $385 
Capitalized website and internal-use software development costs – amortizable14,280 12,294 
Less: accumulated amortization(5,032)(2,022)
Capitalized website and internal-use software development costs, net$9,633 $10,657 
Schedule of Finite-Lived Intangible Assets, Future Amortization Expense
The expected annual amortization expense to be recognized in future years as of March 31, 2023 consists of the following (in thousands):
As of March 31, 2023
2023$1,871 
20242,488 
20251,382 
202658 
Development in progress3,449 
Total amortizable costs9,248 
Nonamortizable costs385 
Total capitalized website and internal-use software development costs$9,633 
v3.23.2
ACCRUED EXPENSES AND OTHER CURRENT LIABILITIES (Tables)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Payables and Accruals [Abstract]  
Schedule of Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consist of the following (in thousands):
 As of March 31, 2023As of December 31, 2022
Accrued payroll related costs$10,196 $14,048 
Provision for DMV refunds1,089 1,080 
Accrued sales taxes212 3,957 
Class A common stock subject to repurchase liability, current34 44 
Interest payable2,742 960 
Provision for sales returns and cancellations3,146 4,304 
Other accrued expenses5,717 9,479 
Total accrued expenses and other current liabilities$23,136 $33,872 
v3.23.2
SEGMENT INFORMATION (Tables)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Schedule of Reportable Segments Information
Information about the Company’s reportable segments are as follows (in thousands):
Three Months Ended March 31,
20232022
Revenue from external customers
Retail$50,559 $191,793 
Wholesale3,549 27,787 
Consolidated$54,108 $219,580 
Segment gross profit (loss)
Retail$3,929 $10,926 
Wholesale(765)(138)
Consolidated$3,164 $10,788 
Schedule of Reconciliation of Reportable Segment Gross Profit to Net Loss and Comprehensive Loss Attributable to Common Stockholders
The reconciliation between reportable segment gross profit to loss before income taxes is as follows (in thousands):
 Three Months Ended March 31,
 20232022
Segment gross profit$3,164 $10,788 
Selling, general and administrative expenses(42,591)(63,537)
Depreciation and amortization(4,399)(1,680)
Loss on impairment(931)— 
Interest and other expense, net(2,791)(2,578)
Loss before income taxes$(47,548)$(57,007)
v3.23.2
STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION PLANS (Tables)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Abstract]  
Schedule of Employee and Non-Employee Stock Option Activity Activity related to employee and non-employee stock options for all plans is set forth below:
Number of
Shares
Weighted
Average
Exercise Price
Weighted Average
Remaining
Contractual Life
(Years)
Aggregate Intrinsic Value (000’s)
As of December 31, 2022
519,323 $26.02 4.95$
Granted— — 
Exercised— — 
Forfeited(4,927)31.99 
Cancelled (expired)(117,025)70.05 
As of March 31, 2023
397,371$12.98 5.95$— 
Exercisable as of March 31, 2023
393,867$12.84 5.94$— 
Schedule of Employee and Non-Employee Restricted Stock Unit Activity
Activity related to employee and non-employee RSU awards is set forth below:
Number of
Shares
Weighted
Average
Grant Date Fair Value
Weighted Average
Remaining
Contractual Life
(Years)
Aggregate Intrinsic Value (000’s)
Unvested as of December 31, 2022
486,054 $29.30 1.01$724 
Granted123,688 2.16 
Vested(35,796)37.70 
Forfeited(89,298)20.69 
Unvested as of March 31, 2023
484,648$23.27 0.81$543 
Vested and unreleased22,673
Outstanding as of March 31, 2023
507,321
v3.23.2
IMPAIRMENT, RESTRUCTURING AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS (Tables)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Restructuring and Related Activities [Abstract]  
Schedule of Restructuring Charges and Reconciliation of Restructuring Liability
The following table is a reconciliation of the beginning and ending severance liability for the three months ended March 31, 2023 related to the Restructuring Plan:

Balance at December 31, 2022$794 
Accruals and accrual adjustments— 
Cash payments(161)
Balance at March 31, 2023
$633 
Schedule of Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations
The following table presents the loss associated with the sale, presented in the results of our discontinued operations below, in thousands:
Gross purchase price$434 
Net assets sold(820)
Loss on disposal$(386)
The carrying value of the net assets classified as discontinued operations sold during the period were as follows, in thousands:
Assets
Inventory$606 
Security deposits57 
Property, plant, and equipment306 
Operating lease assets1,577 
Total assets$2,546 
Liabilities
Operating lease liabilities$1,726 
Total liabilities$1,726 
Net assets sold$820 
The following table presents components making up the balance sheets line item consisting of the carrying amount of assets and liabilities classified as held for sale and the aggregate amounts of the classes of assets and liabilities of the facilities and entities classified as discontinued operations, in thousands:
March 31, 2023December 31, 2022
Assets
Held for sale:
Operating lease assets$7,813 $5,634 
Finance lease assets, net— 3,960 
Total held for sale assets7,813 9,594 
Discontinued Operations:
Accounts receivable, net460689
Prepaid expenses and other current assets217226
Property and equipment, net2,1862,584
Operating lease assets1,8933,938
Finance lease assets, net180195
Total discontinued operations assets4,9367,632
Total held for sale and discontinued operations assets$12,749$17,226
Liabilities
Held for sale:
Operating lease liabilities$13,018 $6,016 
Finance lease liabilities2,641 4,843 
Total held for sale liabilities15,659 10,859 
Discontinued Operations:
Accounts payable6570
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities272131
Operating lease liabilities1,9004,122
Finance lease liabilities183193
Other non-current liabilities8087
Total discontinued operations liabilities2,5004,603
Total held for sale and discontinued operations liabilities$18,159$15,462
The following table presents information regarding certain components of loss from discontinued operations:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2023
Retail revenue, net$2,123 
Other revenue, net270 
Wholesale vehicle revenue1,190 
Total revenue3,584 
Cost of sales3,210 
Gross profit374 
Selling, general and administrative expenses459 
Loss on disposal386 
Depreciation and amortization20 
Total Operating Expenses865 
Loss from operations(491)
Interest and other expense, net(3)
Loss from discontinued operations$(494)

Transaction costs related to the sale were immaterial for the three months ended March 31, 2023.

The following table presents non-cash items related to discontinued operations, in thousands:
Three Months Ended March 31, 2023
Depreciation and amortization$20 
v3.23.2
NET LOSS PER SHARE (Tables)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Earnings Per Share [Abstract]  
Schedule of Computation of Basic and Diluted Net Loss per Share
The following table sets forth the computation of net loss per share, basic and diluted:
 Three Months Ended
March 31,
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)20232022
Net loss$(48,097)$(57,048)
Weighted-average number of shares outstanding used to compute net loss per share, basic and diluted16,920,600 8,182,525 
Net loss per share, basic and diluted$(2.84)$(6.97)
Schedule of Potentially Dilutive Shares not included in the Calculation of Diluted Shares Outstanding
The following potentially dilutive shares were not included in the calculation of diluted shares outstanding for the periods presented as the effect would have been anti-dilutive:
 As of March 31,
 20232022
Escrow Shares300,010 300,010 
Public and private warrants1,146,727 — 
Earnout Shares489,841 — 
Convertible Notes1,779,834 1,779,834 
Stock options397,371 156,302 
Restricted stock units507,321 748,162 
Contingently repurchasable early exercise shares813 4,800 
Total4,621,917 2,989,108 
v3.23.2
DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS (Details)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
segment
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Number of reportable segments 2
v3.23.2
SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES - Narrative (Details)
$ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands
3 Months Ended
Oct. 13, 2021
USD ($)
shares
Oct. 13, 2020
trading_day
$ / shares
shares
Mar. 31, 2023
USD ($)
Mar. 31, 2022
USD ($)
Apr. 13, 2023
shares
Dec. 31, 2022
USD ($)
Concentration Risk [Line Items]            
Accumulated other comprehensive loss     $ 0     $ (3)
Assets measured at fair value     100      
Liabilities measured at fair value     100      
Reclassification of escrow shares to additional paid-in capital $ 6,300          
Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Operating Activities     (36,314) $ (98,370)    
Net loss     (48,097) $ (57,048)    
Cash and cash equivalents     58,784     $ 96,159
Working capital     $ 40,800      
Insurance Acquisition Corp.            
Concentration Risk [Line Items]            
Number of shares returned | shares 300,011          
Insurance Acquisition Corp. | Subsequent Event            
Concentration Risk [Line Items]            
Number of shares returned | shares         300,010  
Insurance Acquisition Corp. | Derivative Instrument, Period, One            
Concentration Risk [Line Items]            
Contingent liability of shares entitled to legacy stockholders, earnout period   12 months        
Contingent liability of shares entitled to legacy stockholders, earnout period, number of trading days | trading_day   20        
Contingent liability of shares entitled to legacy stockholders, earnout period, number of trading days in period | trading_day   30        
Contingent liability of shares entitled to legacy stockholders, earnout period, release of shares   50.00%        
Insurance Acquisition Corp. | Derivative Instrument, Period, Two            
Concentration Risk [Line Items]            
Contingent liability of shares entitled to legacy stockholders, earnout period   30 months        
Insurance Acquisition Corp. | Class A Common Stock            
Concentration Risk [Line Items]            
Additional number of shares legacy stockholders are entitled given certain conditions | shares   600,021        
Insurance Acquisition Corp. | Class A Common Stock | Derivative Instrument, Period, One            
Concentration Risk [Line Items]            
Contingent liability of shares entitled to legacy stockholders, earnout period, trigger stock price (in dollars per share) | $ / shares   $ 120.00        
Insurance Acquisition Corp. | Class A Common Stock | Derivative Instrument, Period, Two            
Concentration Risk [Line Items]            
Contingent liability of shares entitled to legacy stockholders, earnout period, trigger stock price (in dollars per share) | $ / shares   150.00        
Insurance Acquisition Corp. | Class A Common Stock | Derivative Instrument, Period, Three            
Concentration Risk [Line Items]            
Contingent liability of shares entitled to legacy stockholders, earnout period, trigger stock price (in dollars per share) | $ / shares   $ 100.00        
v3.23.2
BUSINESS COMBINATIONS - Narrative (Details) - USD ($)
$ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands
3 Months Ended 12 Months Ended
May 11, 2022
Mar. 31, 2023
Mar. 31, 2022
Dec. 31, 2022
Dec. 09, 2022
Business Acquisition [Line Items]          
Imputed discount   $ 2,103 $ 0    
Additional transaction costs   100      
Fair Dealer Services, LLC          
Business Acquisition [Line Items]          
Transaction related costs   $ 0 $ 0 $ 3,300  
Cash acquired $ 15,000        
Equity interest issued or issuable (in shares) 206,698        
Consideration transferred equity interests issuable, percentage 2.50%        
Share price (in dollars per share) $ 10.20        
Other intangible assets $ 12,500        
Intangibles acquired in business combination 200        
Fair Dealer Services, LLC | Computer Software, Intangible Asset          
Business Acquisition [Line Items]          
Estimated useful lives (in years)   3 years      
Fair Dealer Services, LLC | Dealer Network          
Business Acquisition [Line Items]          
Estimated useful lives (in years)   1 year      
Fair Dealer Services, LLC | Senior Unsecured Notes | Senior Notes          
Business Acquisition [Line Items]          
Imputed discount $ 2,100        
Stated interest rate 10.50%        
CarLotz, Inc.          
Business Acquisition [Line Items]          
Share price (in dollars per share)         $ 2.62
Transaction costs       $ 16,300  
Discount rate To estimate the fair value   19.40%      
CarLotz, Inc. | Restricted stock units          
Business Acquisition [Line Items]          
Equity interest issued or issuable (in shares)   100,000      
CarLotz, Inc. | Common Stock          
Business Acquisition [Line Items]          
Equity interest issued or issuable (in shares)   8,600,000      
CarLotz, Inc. | Trademarks          
Business Acquisition [Line Items]          
Intangibles acquired in business combination   $ 970      
Business combination, intangible asset, royalty rates   0.30%      
CarLotz, Inc. | Developed technology          
Business Acquisition [Line Items]          
Intangibles acquired in business combination   $ 3,190      
Business combination, intangible asset, royalty rates   1.50%      
v3.23.2
BUSINESS COMBINATIONS - Schedule of Merger Consideration Transferred (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
3 Months Ended
May 11, 2022
Mar. 31, 2023
Fair Dealer Services, LLC    
Business Acquisition [Line Items]    
Cash consideration $ 15,000  
Fair value of shares of Shift Class A common stock issued 2,481  
Allocation of proceeds from Senior Unsecured Notes (2,103)  
Acquisition Consideration $ 15,378  
CarLotz, Inc.    
Business Acquisition [Line Items]    
Fair value of shares of Shift Class A common stock issued   $ 22,411
Replacement of CarLotz equity awards   562
Acquisition Consideration   $ 22,973
v3.23.2
BUSINESS COMBINATIONS - Schedule of Total Fair Value of Purchase Price (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
Mar. 31, 2023
Dec. 31, 2022
May 11, 2022
Business Acquisition [Line Items]      
Capitalized website and internal use software costs, net $ 9,633 $ 10,657  
Goodwill $ 2,070 $ 2,070  
Fair Dealer Services, LLC      
Business Acquisition [Line Items]      
Other intangible assets     $ 12,500
Prepaid expenses and other current assets     154
Goodwill     2,524
Total fair value of purchase price     15,378
Fair Dealer Services, LLC | Software and Software Development Costs      
Business Acquisition [Line Items]      
Capitalized website and internal use software costs, net     12,500
Fair Dealer Services, LLC | Trade Names      
Business Acquisition [Line Items]      
Other intangible assets     100
Fair Dealer Services, LLC | Dealer Network      
Business Acquisition [Line Items]      
Other intangible assets     $ 100
v3.23.2
BUSINESS COMBINATIONS - Schedule of Unaudited Pro Forma (Details) - USD ($)
$ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Mar. 31, 2022
Business Acquisition, Pro Forma Information, Nonrecurring Adjustment [Line Items]    
Net loss $ (48,097) $ (57,048)
Weighted-average number of shares outstanding used to compute net loss per share, basic (in shares)   8,089,211
Fair Dealer Services, LLC    
Business Acquisition, Pro Forma Information, Nonrecurring Adjustment [Line Items]    
Revenue   $ 219,580
Loss from operations   (59,240)
Net loss   $ (62,196)
Net loss per share, basic (in dollars per share)   $ (7.69)
Net loss per share, diluted (in dollars per share)   $ (7.69)
Weighted-average number of shares outstanding used to compute net loss per share, diluted (in shares)   8,089,211
CarLotz, Inc.    
Business Acquisition, Pro Forma Information, Nonrecurring Adjustment [Line Items]    
Revenue   $ 282,594
Loss from operations   (81,919)
Net loss   $ (80,305)
Net loss per share, basic (in dollars per share)   $ (4.88)
Net loss per share, diluted (in dollars per share)   $ (4.88)
Weighted-average number of shares outstanding used to compute net loss per share, basic (in shares)   16,472,676
Weighted-average number of shares outstanding used to compute net loss per share, diluted (in shares)   16,472,676
v3.23.2
BUSINESS COMBINATIONS - Schedule of Recognized Identified Assets Acquired and Liabilities Assumed (Details) - CarLotz, Inc.
$ in Thousands
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
USD ($)
Business Combination, Recognized Identifiable Assets Acquired and Liabilities Assumed, Assets [Abstract]  
Cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities $ 97,710
Accounts receivable 3,321
Inventory 7,062
Other current assets 1,756
Property and equipment 7,009
Operating lease right of use assets 25,119
Finance lease right of use assets 4,176
Other non-current assets 364
Total assets 150,677
Business Combination, Recognized Identifiable Assets Acquired and Liabilities Assumed, Liabilities [Abstract]  
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities (11,899)
Operating lease liabilities, current (4,127)
Finance lease liabilities, current (273)
Other current liabilities (694)
Operating lease liabilities (24,713)
Finance lease liabilities (8,940)
Other non-current liabilities (373)
Total liabilities (51,019)
Total fair value of purchase price 99,658
Gain on Bargain purchase (76,685)
Consideration transferred 22,973
Developed technology  
Business Combination, Recognized Identifiable Assets Acquired and Liabilities Assumed, Assets [Abstract]  
Intangible assets 3,190
Trademarks  
Business Combination, Recognized Identifiable Assets Acquired and Liabilities Assumed, Assets [Abstract]  
Intangible assets $ 970
v3.23.2
PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET - Schedule of Property and Equipment, Net (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
Mar. 31, 2023
Dec. 31, 2022
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]    
Total property and equipment $ 5,102 $ 10,157
Less: accumulated depreciation (3,090) (3,360)
Property and equipment, net 2,012 6,797
Equipment    
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]    
Total property and equipment 3,841 4,545
Furniture and fixtures    
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]    
Total property and equipment 332 1,278
Leasehold improvements    
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]    
Total property and equipment $ 929 $ 4,334
v3.23.2
PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET - Narrative (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Millions
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Mar. 31, 2022
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]    
Depreciation expense (Less than for three months ended March 31, 2023) $ 0.5 $ 0.6
Property plant and equipment held for sale 2.4  
Depreciation expense related property and equipment that was disposed 0.2  
Reconditioning Facilities    
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]    
Depreciation expense (Less than for three months ended March 31, 2023) $ 0.1 $ 0.3
v3.23.2
LEASES - Narrative (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Mar. 31, 2022
Lessee, Lease, Description [Line Items]    
Lease initial term (in months) 12 months  
Loss on impairment $ 900 $ 0
Lease obligations with maximum total payments $ 4,669  
Minimum    
Lessee, Lease, Description [Line Items]    
Operating lease, remaining lase term 1 year  
Finance lease, remaining lase term 1 year  
Maximum    
Lessee, Lease, Description [Line Items]    
Operating lease, remaining lase term 13 years  
Finance lease, remaining lase term 13 years  
v3.23.2
LEASES - Schedule of Balance Sheet Information Related to Leases (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
Mar. 31, 2023
Dec. 31, 2022
Assets    
Operating lease assets $ 28,366 $ 44,568
Operating and finance lease assets, property and equipment, accounts receivable, and other assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations 9,706 9,572
Finance lease assets, net 112 152
Operating and finance lease assets, property and equipment, accounts receivable, and other assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations 180 4,155
Total lease assets 38,364 58,447
Liabilities    
Operating lease liabilities, current 5,490 8,865
Operating and finance lease liabilities and other liabilities associated with assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations 14,918 10,138
Operating lease liabilities, non-current 27,245 44,985
Total operating lease liabilities 47,653 63,988
Finance lease liabilities, current 50 271
Operating and finance lease liabilities and other liabilities associated with assets held for sale or classified as discontinued operations 2,824 5,036
Finance lease liabilities, non-current 1,496 3,989
Total finance lease liabilities 4,370 9,296
Total lease liabilities $ 52,023 $ 73,284
v3.23.2
LEASES - Schedule of Lease Costs and Activity (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Mar. 31, 2022
Lease cost    
Operating lease cost $ 9,241 $ 2,162
Finance lease amortization 86 0
Finance lease interest 109 0
Short-term lease cost 168 832
Variable lease cost 455 185
Sublease income (241) 0
Total lease cost 9,818 3,179
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of operating lease liabilities    
Operating leases - Operating cash flows 3,746 1,925
Finance leases - Operating cash flows 731 0
Finance leases - Financing cash flows 180 0
Operating leases 11,884 0
Finance leases $ 4,660 $ 0
Weighted average remaining lease term - operating leases (in years) 5 years 7 months 24 days 5 years 1 month 20 days
Weighted average discount rate - operating leases 8.53% 7.30%
Weighted average remaining lease term - finance leases (in years) 6 years 10 days  
Weighted average discount rate - finance leases 11.10% 0.00%
v3.23.2
LEASES - Schedule of Operating Lease Liabilities by Maturity Date and Finance Lease, Liability, Fiscal Year Maturity (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
Mar. 31, 2023
Dec. 31, 2022
Operating Leases    
2023 $ 9,198  
2024 10,860  
2025 9,456  
2026 9,339  
2027 9,353  
Thereafter 13,935  
Total minimum lease payments 62,141  
Less: Imputed interest 14,488  
Total lease liabilities 47,653 $ 63,988
Finance Leases    
2023 592  
2024 693  
2025 708  
2026 724  
2027 680  
Thereafter 4,091  
Total minimum lease payments 7,488  
Less: Imputed interest 3,118  
Total lease liabilities $ 4,370 $ 9,296
v3.23.2
CAPITALIZED WEBSITE AND INTERNAL-USE SOFTWARE COSTS, NET - Schedule of Capitalized Website and Internal-Use Software Development Costs, Net (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
Mar. 31, 2023
Dec. 31, 2022
Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Abstract]    
Capitalized website domain costs – nonamortizable $ 385 $ 385
Capitalized website and internal-use software development costs – amortizable 14,280 12,294
Less: accumulated amortization (5,032) (2,022)
Capitalized website and internal-use software development costs, net $ 9,633 $ 10,657
v3.23.2
CAPITALIZED WEBSITE AND INTERNAL-USE SOFTWARE COSTS, NET - Narrative (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Millions
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Mar. 31, 2022
Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Abstract]    
Amortization of capitalized software development costs $ 3.2 $ 1.4
Weighted-average amortization period (in years) 1 year 2 months 26 days  
v3.23.2
CAPITALIZED WEBSITE AND INTERNAL-USE SOFTWARE COSTS, NET - Schedule of Finite-Lived Intangible Assets, Future Amortization Expense (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
Mar. 31, 2023
Dec. 31, 2022
Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Abstract]    
2023 $ 1,871  
2024 2,488  
2025 1,382  
2026 58  
Development in progress 3,449  
Total amortizable costs 9,248  
Nonamortizable costs 385 $ 385
Capitalized website and internal-use software development costs, net $ 9,633 $ 10,657
v3.23.2
GOODWILL - Narrative (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
3 Months Ended
May 11, 2022
Dec. 31, 2022
Mar. 31, 2023
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]      
Goodwill   $ 2,070 $ 2,070
Impairment loss   $ (500)  
Retail      
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]      
Goodwill $ 2,500    
Fair Dealer Services, LLC      
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]      
Merger Consideration 15,378    
Prepaid expenses and other current assets 154    
Intangible assets acquired 12,700    
Goodwill $ 2,524    
v3.23.2
ACCRUED EXPENSES AND OTHER CURRENT LIABILITIES - Schedule of Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
Mar. 31, 2023
Dec. 31, 2022
Payables and Accruals [Abstract]    
Accrued payroll related costs $ 10,196 $ 14,048
Provision for DMV refunds 1,089 1,080
Accrued sales taxes 212 3,957
Class A common stock subject to repurchase liability, current 34 44
Interest payable 2,742 960
Provision for sales returns and cancellations 3,146 4,304
Other accrued expenses 5,717 9,479
Total accrued expenses and other current liabilities 23,136 33,872
Accrued expenses associated with a long-lived asset disposal group $ 300 $ 100
v3.23.2
BORROWINGS (Details)
3 Months Ended
Feb. 07, 2023
USD ($)
Dec. 09, 2021
USD ($)
May 27, 2021
USD ($)
business_day
trading_day
$ / shares
Mar. 31, 2023
USD ($)
Mar. 31, 2022
USD ($)
Dec. 31, 2022
USD ($)
May 11, 2022
USD ($)
May 24, 2021
$ / shares
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]                
Share price (in dollars per share) | $ / shares               $ 66.10
Senior Notes Due May 11, 2025                
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]                
Deferred costs       $ 200,000        
Senior Notes Due May 11, 2025 | Senior Notes                
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]                
Stated interest rate             6.00%  
Outstanding principal amount             $ 20,000,000  
Deferred borrowing cost amortization expense       1,900,000        
Deferred costs       200,000        
Contractual interest expense       300,000        
Senior Notes Due May 11, 2025 | Senior Notes | Estimate of Fair Value Measurement                
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]                
Convertible debt, fair value       17,100,000        
Convertible Senior Notes Due 2026 | Convertible Notes                
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]                
Stated interest rate     4.75%          
Outstanding principal amount     $ 150,000,000          
Deferred borrowing cost amortization expense       300,000 $ 300,000      
Contractual interest expense       1,800,000 $ 2,100,000      
Redemption, threshold trading days | trading_day     40          
Redemption, principal amount to remain outstanding     $ 50,000,000          
Unamortized deferred borrowing costs       $ 4,200,000        
Effective rate       5.73%        
Convertible Senior Notes Due 2026 | Convertible Notes | Debt Instrument, Convertible, Trigger Option, One                
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]                
Convertible, threshold percentage of stock price trigger     130.00%          
Number of threshold trading days | trading_day     20          
Number of threshold consecutive trading days | trading_day     30          
Convertible Senior Notes Due 2026 | Convertible Notes | Debt Instrument, Convertible, Trigger Option, Two                
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]                
Convertible, threshold percentage of stock price trigger     98.00%          
Number of threshold consecutive trading days | trading_day     10          
Number of threshold business days | business_day     5          
Convertible Senior Notes Due 2026 | Convertible Notes | Debt Instrument, Convertible, Period One                
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]                
Conversion ratio     11.8654          
Conversion price (in dollars per share) | $ / shares     $ 84.28          
Conversion premium     27.47%          
Convertible Senior Notes Due 2026 | Convertible Notes | Debt Instrument, Convertible, Period Two                
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]                
Conversion ratio     15.1284          
Convertible Senior Notes Due 2026 | Convertible Notes | Estimate of Fair Value Measurement                
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]                
Convertible debt, fair value       $ 15,300,000        
Ally Flooring Line of Credit | Line of Credit | Revolving Credit Facility                
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]                
Maximum borrowing capacity $ 75,000,000 $ 100,000,000            
Period vehicles held in inventory 150 days 180 days            
Monthly principal payment equal to percentage of original principal amount of vehicle   10.00%            
Monthly principal payment required until percentage of remaining outstanding balance is reached (or less)   50.00%            
Percentage of unrestricted cash and cash equivalents on total credit line (not less than)   20.00%            
Percentage restricted cash on total credit line (at least)   10.00%            
Percentage of equity to be maintained on inventory (at least)   10.00%            
Percentage threshold of average outstanding balance of average total credit line for quarter to trigger availability fee   50.00%            
Weighted average interest rate       9.50%        
Outstanding under credit facility       $ 22,200,000   $ 24,800,000    
Unused borrowing capacity       $ 52,800,000   $ 75,200,000    
Ally Flooring Line of Credit | Line of Credit | Revolving Credit Facility | Prime Rate                
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]                
Basis spread on variable rate 1.75% 1.50%            
v3.23.2
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES (Details) - USD ($)
$ / shares in Units, $ in Millions
Mar. 31, 2023
Mar. 17, 2023
Mar. 06, 2023
Dec. 31, 2022
Oct. 13, 2020
Oct. 12, 2020
Other Commitments [Line Items]            
Possible loss related to claim (up to) $ 4.0          
Common stock, authorized (in shares) 500,000,000     500,000,000    
Common stock, par value (in dollars per share) $ 0.0001     $ 0.0001    
Class A Common Stock            
Other Commitments [Line Items]            
Common stock, authorized (in shares)   500,000,000 50,000,000   500,000,000 50,000,000
Common stock, par value (in dollars per share)   $ 0.0001        
v3.23.2
STOCKHOLDERS' DEFICIT (Details)
3 Months Ended
Oct. 04, 2022
trading_day
$ / shares
May 06, 2022
USD ($)
$ / shares
May 27, 2021
USD ($)
$ / shares
Mar. 31, 2023
USD ($)
trading_day
$ / shares
shares
Mar. 17, 2023
$ / shares
Dec. 31, 2022
$ / shares
May 24, 2021
$ / shares
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]              
Nasdaq listing rule, bid price requirement, grace period (in days) 180 days            
Common stock, par value (in dollars per share)       $ 0.0001   $ 0.0001  
Shares issued, if threshold percentage of stock price trigger (in dollars per share)             $ 66.10
Class A Common Stock              
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]              
Nasdaq listing rule, minimum bid price (in dollars per share) $ 1.00            
Common stock, par value (in dollars per share)         $ 0.0001    
Maximum              
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]              
Number of consecutive business days | trading_day 30            
Minimum              
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]              
Nasdaq listing rule, re-compliance bid price period (in consecutive trading days) | trading_day 10            
CarLotz, Inc.              
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]              
Warrant exercise price (in dollars per share)       $ 163.06      
CarLotz, Inc. | Public Warrants              
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]              
Warrants to purchase Class A common stock outstanding (in shares) | shares       718,342      
CarLotz, Inc. | Earnout Shares              
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]              
Additional contingent earnout shares (in shares) | shares       489,841      
CarLotz, Inc. | Earnout Shares | Tranche One              
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]              
Shares issued, if threshold percentage of stock price trigger (in dollars per share)       $ 177.24      
CarLotz, Inc. | Earnout Shares | Tranche Two              
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]              
Shares issued, if threshold percentage of stock price trigger (in dollars per share)       212.69      
CarLotz, Inc. | Earnout Shares | Tranche Three              
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]              
Shares issued, if threshold percentage of stock price trigger (in dollars per share)       $ 141.80      
CarLotz, Inc. | Private Warrants              
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]              
Warrants to purchase Class A common stock outstanding (in shares) | shares       428,385      
Controlled Equity Offering Sales Agreement              
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]              
Common stock, par value (in dollars per share)   $ 0.0001          
Sale of stock, consideration received on transaction | $   $ 150,000,000          
Sale of stock, commission on gross consideration received on transaction   3.00%          
Call Option              
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]              
Cap price for capped call transactions (in dollars per share)     $ 148.725        
Cap price for capped call transactions premium     125.00%        
Net proceeds from offering | $     $ 28,400,000        
Hypothetical capped call settlement value, cash settlement amount | $       $ 0      
Capped call volume weighted average price (in dollars per share)       $ 84.30      
Capped call threshold number of consecutive trading days | trading_day       40      
v3.23.2
SEGMENT INFORMATION - Narrative (Details)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
segment
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Number of reportable segments 2
v3.23.2
SEGMENT INFORMATION - Schedule of Reportable Segments Information (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Mar. 31, 2022
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]    
Revenue from external customers $ 54,108 $ 219,580
Segment gross profit (loss) 3,164 10,788
Operating Segments    
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]    
Revenue from external customers 54,108 219,580
Segment gross profit (loss) 3,164 10,788
Operating Segments | Retail    
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]    
Revenue from external customers 50,559 191,793
Segment gross profit (loss) 3,929 10,926
Operating Segments | Wholesale    
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]    
Revenue from external customers 3,549 27,787
Segment gross profit (loss) $ (765) $ (138)
v3.23.2
SEGMENT INFORMATION - Schedule of Reconciliation of Reportable Segment Gross Profit to Net Loss and Comprehensive Loss Attributable to Common Stockholders (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Mar. 31, 2022
Segment Reporting, Reconciling Item for Operating Profit (Loss) from Segment to Consolidated [Line Items]    
Segment gross profit $ 3,164 $ 10,788
Selling, general and administrative expenses (42,591) (63,537)
Depreciation and amortization (4,399) (1,680)
Loss on impairment (931) 0
Interest and other expense, net (2,791) (2,578)
Loss before income taxes (47,548) (57,007)
Operating Segments    
Segment Reporting, Reconciling Item for Operating Profit (Loss) from Segment to Consolidated [Line Items]    
Segment gross profit $ 3,164 $ 10,788
v3.23.2
STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION PLANS - Narrative (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
1 Months Ended 3 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2022
Mar. 31, 2023
Mar. 31, 2022
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]      
Granted (in shares)   123,688  
Stock-based compensation expense   $ 1,200 $ 4,200
Stock-based compensation capitalized to internal-use software   183 $ 325
Unrecognized stock-based compensation expense   $ 9,000  
Unrecognized stock-based compensation expense, weighted average period of recognition   1 year 2 months 15 days  
Stock options | 2014 Stock Option Plan      
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]      
Award contractual term (in years)   10 years  
Stock options | 2020 Omnibus Equity Compensation Plan      
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]      
Award contractual term (in years)   10 years  
Restricted stock units      
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]      
Granted (in shares) 46,165    
Minimum | Stock options | 2014 Stock Option Plan      
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]      
Award vesting period (in years)   4 years  
Maximum | Stock options | 2014 Stock Option Plan      
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]      
Award vesting period (in years)   5 years  
v3.23.2
STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION PLANS - Schedule of Employee and Non-Employee Stock Option Activity (Details) - USD ($)
$ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands
3 Months Ended 12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Dec. 31, 2022
Number of Shares    
Beginning balance (in shares) 519,323  
Granted (in shares) 0  
Exercised (in shares) 0  
Forfeited (in shares) (4,927)  
Cancelled (expired) (in shares) (117,025)  
Ending balance (in shares) 397,371 519,323
Exercisable at period end (in shares) 393,867  
Weighted Average Exercise Price    
Beginning balance (in dollars per share) $ 26.02  
Granted (in dollars per share) 0  
Exercised (in dollars per share) 0  
Forfeited (in dollars per share) 31.99  
Cancelled (expired) (in dollars per share) 70.05  
Ending balance (in dollars per share) 12.98 $ 26.02
Weighted average exercise price, exercisable at period end (in dollars per share) $ 12.84  
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Options, Additional Disclosures [Abstract]    
Weighted average remaining contractual life, outstanding 5 years 11 months 12 days 4 years 11 months 12 days
Weighted average remaining contractual life, exercisable at period end 5 years 11 months 8 days  
Aggregate intrinsic value, outstanding $ 0 $ 1
Aggregate intrinsic value, exercisable at period end $ 0  
v3.23.2
STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION PLANS - Schedule of Employee and Non-Employee Restricted Stock Unit Activity (Details) - USD ($)
$ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Mar. 31, 2022
Dec. 31, 2022
Number of Shares      
Beginning balance (in shares) 486,054    
Granted (in shares) 123,688    
Vested (in shares) (35,796)    
Forfeited (in shares) (89,298)    
Ending balance (in shares) 484,648    
Vested and unreleased (in shares) 22,673    
Outstanding at period end (in shares) 507,321    
Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value      
Beginning balance (in dollars per share) $ 29.30    
Granted (in dollars per share) 2.16    
Vested (in dollars per share) 37.70    
Forfeited (in dollars per share) 20.69    
Ending balance (in dollars per share) $ 23.27    
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Additional Disclosures [Abstract]      
Weighted average remaining contractual life, outstanding 9 months 21 days 1 year 3 days  
Aggregate intrinsic value, outstanding $ 543   $ 724
v3.23.2
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS (Details)
1 Months Ended 3 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2018
USD ($)
tranche
$ / shares
shares
Oct. 31, 2019
USD ($)
Mar. 31, 2023
USD ($)
Mar. 31, 2022
USD ($)
Feb. 28, 2023
USD ($)
Dec. 31, 2022
USD ($)
Warrant Shares, Tranche Five            
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]            
Issuance of warrants upon achievement of milestones   $ 4,300,000        
Lithia Motors, Inc.            
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]            
Wrote off remaining prepaid asset         $ 500,000  
Affiliated Entity | Lithia Motors, Inc.            
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]            
Agreement term (in years) 5 years          
Deferred asset, gross $ 3,200,000          
Amortization period 5 years          
Deferred asset, amortization expense     $ 100,000 $ 200,000    
Deferred asset, net     0     $ 600,000
Accounts payable     200,000     $ 200,000
Affiliated Entity | Lithia Motors, Inc. | Warrant Shares            
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]            
Number of shares called by warrants | shares 8,666,154          
Warrant exercise price (in dollars per share) | $ / shares $ 0.10          
Total number of tranches warrants become exercisable | tranche 6          
Number of potential shares exercisable per tranche | shares 1,444,359          
Affiliated Entity | Lithia Motors, Inc. | One-Sided Marketplace (OSM) Agreement            
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]            
Revenue from related party     $ 0 $ 4,700,000    
Affiliated Entity | Lithia Motors, Inc. | Substance Upfront Payment            
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]            
Deferred asset, gross $ 2,800,000          
Affiliated Entity | Lithia Motors, Inc. | Substance Upfront Payment, Recorded In Other Non-Current Assets            
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]            
Deferred asset, gross $ 400,000          
v3.23.2
IMPAIRMENT, RESTRUCTURING AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS - Narrative (Details)
$ in Thousands
3 Months Ended 12 Months Ended
Feb. 02, 2023
USD ($)
Jul. 22, 2022
position
Mar. 31, 2023
USD ($)
retail_location
Mar. 31, 2022
USD ($)
Dec. 31, 2022
USD ($)
Restructuring Cost and Reserve [Line Items]          
Loss on impairment     $ 900 $ 0  
Restructuring and related cost, number of positions eliminated, percentage     42.00%    
Restructuring charges     $ 900    
Proceeds from commutation of reinsurance contracts     $ 187 0  
Loss on disposal         $ 0
Number of retail locations sold during the period | retail_location     3    
Loss on sale of assets and liabilities     $ (3,100)    
Gross profit     3,164 $ 10,788  
Discontinued Operations, Held-for-sale          
Restructuring Cost and Reserve [Line Items]          
Loss on disposal $ 386        
Gross profit     $ 374    
Retail revenue, net | Discontinued Operations, Held-for-sale          
Restructuring Cost and Reserve [Line Items]          
Gross profit $ 434        
Restructuring Plan, July 22, 2022          
Restructuring Cost and Reserve [Line Items]          
Restructuring and related cost, number of positions eliminated, percentage   60.00%      
Restructuring and related cost, number of positions eliminated | position   650      
v3.23.2
IMPAIRMENT, RESTRUCTURING AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS - Schedule of Reconciliation of Restructuring Liability (Details)
$ in Thousands
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
USD ($)
Restructuring Reserve [Roll Forward]  
Balance at December 31, 2022 $ 794
Accruals and accrual adjustments 0
Cash payments (161)
Balance at March 31, 2023 $ 633
v3.23.2
IMPAIRMENT, RESTRUCTURING AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS - Discontinued Operations, Loss on Sale and Net Assets (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
3 Months Ended 12 Months Ended
Feb. 02, 2023
Mar. 31, 2023
Mar. 31, 2022
Dec. 31, 2022
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]        
Gross profit   $ 3,164 $ 10,788  
Loss on sales of property and equipment       $ 0
ASSETS        
Inventory   34,019   40,925
Property and equipment, net   2,012   6,797
Operating lease assets   28,366   44,568
Total assets   169,496   248,018
Liabilities        
Total lease liabilities   47,653   63,988
Total liabilities   275,965   307,804
Discontinued Operations, Held-for-sale        
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]        
Gross profit   374    
Net Assets Sold $ (820)      
Loss on sales of property and equipment (386)      
ASSETS        
Inventory 606      
Security deposits 57      
Property and equipment, net 306      
Operating lease assets 1,577      
Total assets 2,546      
Liabilities        
Total lease liabilities 1,726      
Total liabilities 1,726      
Net Assets 820      
Discontinued Operations, Held-for-sale | Retail revenue, net        
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]        
Gross profit $ 434      
Discontinued Operations, Disposed of by Sale        
ASSETS        
Property and equipment, net   2,186   2,584
Operating lease assets   1,893   3,938
Total assets   4,936   7,632
Liabilities        
Total lease liabilities   1,900   4,122
Total liabilities   $ 2,500   $ 4,603
v3.23.2
IMPAIRMENT, RESTRUCTURING AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS - Schedule of Assets and Liabilities Held for Sale and Discontinued Operations (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
Mar. 31, 2023
Feb. 02, 2023
Dec. 31, 2022
Discontinued Operations:      
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $603 and $93 $ 4,393   $ 4,558
Prepaid expenses and other current assets 6,257   7,657
Property and equipment, net 2,012   6,797
Operating lease assets 28,366   44,568
Finance lease assets, net 112   152
Total assets 169,496   248,018
Discontinued Operations:      
Accounts payable 14,280   12,085
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities 23,136   33,872
Total lease liabilities 47,653   63,988
Total lease liabilities 4,370   9,296
Other non-current liabilities 65   111
Total liabilities 275,965   307,804
Discontinued Operations, Held-for-sale      
Held for sale:      
Operating lease assets 7,813   5,634
Finance lease assets, net 0   3,960
Discontinued Operations:      
Property and equipment, net   $ 306  
Operating lease assets   1,577  
Total assets   2,546  
Total held for sale assets 7,813   9,594
Held for sale:      
Operating lease liabilities 13,018   6,016
Finance lease liabilities 2,641   4,843
Discontinued Operations:      
Total lease liabilities   1,726  
Total liabilities   $ 1,726  
Total held for sale liabilities 15,659   10,859
Discontinued Operations, Disposed of by Sale      
Discontinued Operations:      
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $603 and $93 460   689
Prepaid expenses and other current assets 217   226
Property and equipment, net 2,186   2,584
Operating lease assets 1,893   3,938
Finance lease assets, net 180   195
Total assets 4,936   7,632
Total held for sale assets 12,749   17,226
Discontinued Operations:      
Accounts payable 65   70
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities 272   131
Total lease liabilities 1,900   4,122
Total lease liabilities 183   193
Other non-current liabilities 80   87
Total liabilities 2,500   4,603
Total held for sale liabilities $ 18,159   $ 15,462
v3.23.2
IMPAIRMENT, RESTRUCTURING AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS - Schedule of Information Regarding Components of Loss From Discontinued Operations (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
3 Months Ended
Feb. 02, 2023
Mar. 31, 2023
Mar. 31, 2022
Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent [Abstract]      
Revenue   $ 54,108 $ 219,580
Cost of sales   50,944 208,792
Gross profit   3,164 10,788
Selling, general and administrative expenses   42,591 63,537
Loss on impairment   931 0
Depreciation and amortization   4,399 1,680
Total operating expenses   47,921 65,217
Loss from operations   (44,757) (54,429)
Interest and other expense, net   (2,791) (2,578)
Loss from discontinued operations   (494) 0
Retail revenue, net      
Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent [Abstract]      
Revenue   48,907 183,081
Other revenue, net      
Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent [Abstract]      
Revenue   1,652 8,712
Wholesale vehicle revenue      
Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent [Abstract]      
Revenue   3,549 $ 27,787
Discontinued Operations, Held-for-sale      
Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent [Abstract]      
Revenue   3,584  
Cost of sales   3,210  
Gross profit   374  
Selling, general and administrative expenses   459  
Loss on impairment   386  
Depreciation and amortization   20  
Total operating expenses   865  
Loss from operations   (491)  
Interest and other expense, net   (3)  
Loss from discontinued operations   (494)  
Discontinued Operations, Held-for-sale | Retail revenue, net      
Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent [Abstract]      
Revenue   2,123  
Gross profit $ 434    
Discontinued Operations, Held-for-sale | Other revenue, net      
Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent [Abstract]      
Revenue   270  
Discontinued Operations, Held-for-sale | Wholesale vehicle revenue      
Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent [Abstract]      
Revenue   $ 1,190  
v3.23.2
INCOME TAXES (Details) - USD ($)
$ in Thousands
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Mar. 31, 2022
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]    
Provision for income taxes $ 55 $ 41
v3.23.2
NET LOSS PER SHARE - Schedule of Computation of Basic and Diluted Net Loss per Share (Details) - USD ($)
$ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Mar. 31, 2022
Earnings Per Share [Abstract]    
Net loss $ (48,097) $ (57,048)
Net loss, basic (48,097) (57,048)
Net loss, diluted $ (48,097) $ (57,048)
Weighted-average number of shares outstanding used to compute net loss per share, basic (in shares) 16,920,600 8,182,525
Weighted-average number of shares outstanding used to compute net loss per share, diluted (in shares) 16,920,600 8,182,525
Net loss per share, basic (in dollars per share) $ (2.84) $ (6.97)
Net loss per share, diluted (in dollars per share) $ (2.84) $ (6.97)
v3.23.2
NET LOSS PER SHARE - Schedule of Potentially Dilutive Shares not included in the Calculation of Diluted Shares Outstanding (Details) - shares
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Mar. 31, 2022
Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings Per Share [Line Items]    
Antidilutive securities (in shares) 4,621,917 2,989,108
Escrow Shares    
Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings Per Share [Line Items]    
Antidilutive securities (in shares) 300,010 300,010
Public and private warrants    
Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings Per Share [Line Items]    
Antidilutive securities (in shares) 1,146,727 0
Earnout Shares    
Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings Per Share [Line Items]    
Antidilutive securities (in shares) 489,841 0
Convertible Notes    
Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings Per Share [Line Items]    
Antidilutive securities (in shares) 1,779,834 1,779,834
Stock options    
Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings Per Share [Line Items]    
Antidilutive securities (in shares) 397,371 156,302
Restricted stock units    
Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings Per Share [Line Items]    
Antidilutive securities (in shares) 507,321 748,162
Contingently repurchasable early exercise shares    
Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings Per Share [Line Items]    
Antidilutive securities (in shares) 813 4,800
v3.23.2
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS - Narrative (Details)
$ in Thousands
Apr. 19, 2023
USD ($)
trading_day
Oct. 04, 2022
trading_day
Subsequent Event [Line Items]    
Nasdaq listing rule, bid price requirement, grace period (in days)   180 days
Subsequent Event    
Subsequent Event [Line Items]    
Nasdaq listing rule, bid price requirement | $ $ 35,000  
Nasdaq listing rule, bid price requirement, grace period (in days) 180 days  
Maximum    
Subsequent Event [Line Items]    
Number of consecutive business days   30
Maximum | Subsequent Event    
Subsequent Event [Line Items]    
Number of consecutive business days 30  
Minimum    
Subsequent Event [Line Items]    
Nasdaq listing rule, re-compliance bid price period (in consecutive trading days)   10
Minimum | Subsequent Event    
Subsequent Event [Line Items]    
Nasdaq listing rule, re-compliance bid price period (in consecutive trading days) 10  

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