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Why everyone stopped buying Lululemon

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Visit today’s sponsor: http://strawberry.me/Girdley for 50% off your first session! This is the rise and fall of Lululemon: how Chip Wilson turned a Vancouver yoga apparel company into a global athleisure powerhouse, how Lululemon built an unusually powerful brand and community, and what happened as competition, product mistakes, strategic missteps, and changes inside the company began putting that formula under pressure. Get the 2-minute cheat sheet for this video → https://girdley.com/youtube 👇 SUBSCRIBE for more business breakdowns https://www.youtube.com/@Michael-Girdley?sub_confirmation=1 ------------------------------------------------------------------ â–ș Get my weekly letter to business owners: essential insights to run, grow, and stay ahead in your business → https://links.girdley.com/newsletter-yt â–ș For sponsorships or inquiries please reach out to: [email protected] â–ș Do you have a hat I should wear in a video? Send it to us: [email protected] â–ș Free events on all things small business: https://links.girdley.com/lectures-yt â–ș Deep dives on businesses for sale: https://www.youtube.com/@AcquisitionsAnonymousPodcast â–ș Follow me on Twitter/X: https://x.com/girdley ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lululemon started with a remarkably specific customer. Founder Chip Wilson saw that the clothes people were wearing to yoga weren’t particularly good for yoga, and he built Lululemon around an educated, athletic professional woman with disposable income. From premium-priced yoga pants to employees called “educators,” local instructors turned into ambassadors, scarce inventory, and company-owned stores, Lululemon created something much harder to copy than a pair of leggings: a culture. That formula produced extraordinary growth. Lululemon went public in 2007, expanded its store footprint, built a major menswear business, and eventually rode the athleisure and work-from-home boom into billions of dollars in annual revenue. Products like the ABC pants and Align leggings helped push the company beyond its original yoga niche, while its direct relationship with customers gave the brand control that many traditional apparel companies lacked. But the Lululemon story also shows how a brand can slowly undermine the advantages that made it special. The 2013 see-through pants crisis damaged customer trust, while Chip Wilson’s comments created another controversy around the brand. Later, stores became less community-oriented, the ambassador culture weakened, and rapid expansion made Lululemon far less scarce. The company also spent $500 million buying Mirror, only to eventually write off the acquisition and stop selling the product. At the same time, competitors began copying parts of Lululemon’s original playbook. Brands such as Alo built around influencers, community, scarcity, and younger customers, while cheaper alternatives became widely available. Lululemon’s women’s business began struggling with product execution and changing fashion trends even as the company continued opening stores. The result is a useful business breakdown of what can happen when growth masks deterioration in the core of a brand. So what happened to Lululemon? This story isn’t simply about one failed product or one bad acquisition. It’s about the difficulty of maintaining a cult brand after it becomes a global corporation. Lululemon’s next chapter now depends on whether new leadership can rebuild what made the company distinctive without trying to recreate a version of the business that the market has already moved beyond.

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