Ross Stores website screenshot

Ross Stores

Ross Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROST) is the largest off-price apparel and home fashion retailer in the United States, operating over 1,700 Ross Dress for Less and 320+ dd's DISCOUNTS stores across 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam. The company sources a broad assortment of in-season, name-brand merchandise at deep discounts (20-60% below department and specialty store prices) through opportunistic buying. Ross operates a highly efficient supply chain powered by AI-driven inventory management, distribution automation, and integrated supplier and partner technology platforms.

Ross Stores publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Fashion, Fortune 500, Off-Price Retail, Retail, and Supply Chain.

The Ross Stores catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

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24.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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1 APIs
FashionFortune 500Off-Price RetailRetailSupply Chain

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Composite quality — 24.7/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 2.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 8.3 / 12
Discoverability 5.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Ross Stores Supply Chain Technology

Ross Stores operates a sophisticated supply chain technology stack including AI-driven inventory allocation, distribution center automation, and merchandise analytics. The compa...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Ross Stores Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ross Stores Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Ross Stores Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Ross Stores Context

0 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Ross Stores API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Ross Stores Supplier Integration Schema

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Ross Stores Supplier Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Ross Stores Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Press 5

Recent news and press coverage referencing this provider.

Ross Stores Reports Robust First Quarter Sales and ...

2026-05-25

Form 10-K for Ross Stores INC filed 04/01/2025

2026-05-25

Ross Stores makes drastic decision customers will see in ...

2026-05-25

Stanley L. - Ross Stores, Inc.

2026-05-25

Ross Stores posts $22.8B sales, EPS $6.61 | ROST Annual ...

2026-05-25

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Partner Portal
Partner Portal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

JSONSchema
JSONSchema

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Vocabulary
Vocabulary
 JSONLD
JSONLD
 JSONStructure
JSONStructure

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Website
Website
 Investor Relations
Investor Relations
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

X
X

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ross-stores
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/ross-stores.png
name: Ross Stores
description: 'Ross Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROST) is the largest off-price apparel and home fashion retailer in the United States,
  operating over 1,700 Ross Dress for Less and 320+ dd''s DISCOUNTS stores across 43 states, the District of Columbia, and
  Guam. The company sources a broad assortment of in-season, name-brand merchandise at deep discounts (20-60% below department
  and specialty store prices) through opportunistic buying. Ross operates a highly efficient supply chain powered by AI-driven
  inventory management, distribution automation, and integrated supplier and partner technology platforms.'
type: Index
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ross-stores/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Fashion
- Fortune 500
- Off-Price Retail
- Retail
- Supply Chain
created: '2025-01-01'
modified: '2026-07-25'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: ross-stores:ross-stores-supply-chain-api
  name: Ross Stores Supply Chain Technology
  description: Ross Stores operates a sophisticated supply chain technology stack including AI-driven inventory allocation,
    distribution center automation, and merchandise analytics. The company is investing approximately $1.1B in capital expenditures
    in 2026, with significant portions allocated to distribution center technology, supply chain automation, and store-level
    inventory systems.
  humanURL: https://corporate.rossstores.com/
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://corporate.rossstores.com/responsibility/
  tags:
  - Analytics
  - Automation
  - Inventory Management
  - Supply Chain
  - Warehouse Management
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ross-stores-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.rossstores.com
- type: Website
  url: https://corporate.rossstores.com/
- type: Investor Relations
  url: https://investors.rossstores.com/
- type: Partner Portal
  url: https://partners.rossstores.com/
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/ross-stores-vocabulary.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/ross-stores-context.jsonld
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/ross-stores-supplier-schema.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/ross-stores-supplier-structure.json
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ross-stores-inc
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/RossStores
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com