I love lulu but it’s expensive plus in this economy I can see them not making a huge profit. They should lower prices.

I have no qualifications to justify this but in my mind we'd be seeing better/greater markdowns if the company was actually struggling. They have such a huge profit margin that they could easily sell leggings for $29 and still be making a profit so my guess is they're testing out increasing prices and putting items "on sale" for what they were before the price increase to see if buyers bite.

I don’t think they are struggling, but they have more competition now with Alo growing and other higher end active wear / athleisure brands becoming popular. People are wayyyy too comfortable putting things on their credit card they can’t actually afford now. They could just be making room for new inventory

Those aren’t signs; rising debt levels & spending more on debt servicing, QoQ in retail sales declines, internet traffic, manufacturing issues, management changes, lowering of financial outlook guidelines, etc

Basically diving into their 10-K, 10Q & investor updates will give a better outlook, changing markdown days is just marketing fluff.

Honestly, I appreciate when a brand takes risks—just not the silly ones. If you look at the thread above, it seems like everyone wants Lululemon to become another Alo. They’re definitely adding in trendier pieces while still updating their technical staples, which I think could work in the long run—but in a more intentional way, not just copying fast fashion trends.

Some of the new stuff is cute and on-trend, sure, but like with Alo, a lot of it looks like it’ll fall apart after a few washes. It also feels like the new product team is trying to quickly phase out the old chief of product’s lines—hence why some pieces go straight to markdown (and honestly, some deserve it because they’re just bad).

It’ll definitely be interesting to see where Lululemon goes from here. The new chief of product and design team’s real influence won’t be visible until next year, given how long it takes to go from concept to production. Hopefully, they’ll focus more on cohesive color drops, rather than releasing tons of shades that all feel the same.

Do what Alo does.

Pick a cute trendy colour. Release all the popular styles plus one or two new styles in the colour at the same time. Rinse and repeat.

I have like 5 screenshots of colorways I’d love to see Lulu explore - different shades of orange, reds, pinks(I promise lulu team, there are 20+ different shades of pink that aren’t just hot pink or pastel pink lol). I wish they’d stop recycling colors and slapping a new name on them.

more flattering bras for us c/d+ gals. I love scoop necks (like the free to be wild bras I think?) but my girls just are not supported in them lol. even bra tops, like the Wunder train top they had released for a little while. A cute halter bra, or square bra with straps - I’d love to switch it up a bit and not just wear Wunder Strappys and Energy bras all the time lol.

eta: the asymmetrical bra is like, a staple imo. where the hell are they?! why did they get rid of them?! I’d buy in every single color they release

I wish they would give us more Wunder Under nulu. They’re so flattering and comfortable and, in my opinion, the superior choice to the more popular Aligns.

More autumn colors! Stop repeating colors too often. There’s 6 different hot pinks since January on rotation..

I really want full length bra tanks back! I’m eyeing the tennis square neck one but that’s really the only one I see on the site. Even Athleta barely offers these tops. When I go on my long walks I don’t want my stomach showing. I don’t golf but I heard you can’t show your stomach out on the green either. I would buy like 10!! If anyone know where I can find some like tank tops with a built in bra that will cover my belly, lmk!

Lulu needs to refocus on actually athletic clothing and less lifestyle or lounge clothing. More bra for D+ cups! I think they got yoga down, but other activities need more options!

I appreciate them trying new stuff, but they never continue making the good items and instead get weird stuff/patterns that really no one buys.

WT strappy bra should be the new Lulu staple bra, not flow-y. Let’s get it in every color moving forward.

And lastly, please stock Track That 5” short. It’s the only short that works for me, ever, and it sells out in 2 hours when restocked.

Super happy about this and immediately bought some items on my wishlist! But I’m curious how this will affect WMTM in the future… more competition for in-demand items? Definitely more options in-store from returns… things that are online, but sometimes it’s nice to see it in person. Will lulu add more WMTM now to keep up with demand?

I'm not convinced this is a good thing - it could encourage people to just mass-buy WMTM items and return them to stores. This in turn limits the amount of stuff available online for people who don't have a local store, and costs LLL money for shipping which will likely be passed on to us in terms of pricing.

I appreciate being able to return things that don't fit, but I feel that there should be limits to prevent it from being abused.

I seemed to have lost my sweat collective as soon as I hit accept on my new membership update

Returnable in store only might as well be no change for me… there’s a reason I have to shop online in the first place 🤷🏻‍♀️

This is definitely helpful!! About damn time.

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the policy differs from stores, but the general policy is store credit or exchanges with sale items

Okay so they changed it so members can exchange in store and get store credit but it was never changed to be a refund for final sale items. The initial phrasing wasn’t clear enough so they clarified that this was the policy about a week after launch. The educator is right and that is the universal policy that’s supposed to be followed. Regular price can be returned to original form of payment but anything WMTM cannot be.

WMTM was always final sale (no returns or exchanges). Now, you can return for store credit. Some people may have luck getting it refunded back to their original method of payment, but that’s a lucky exception & is not in line with the return policy

Educator here- for a sale item from in store, it can only be returned for exchange or store credit. So you can’t return a final item sale for your money back

wmtm returns for gift card. regular priced items can be cash refund

Yup. Agree with this. I’ve attended an in person Lulu warehouse sale and as the sale went on, there would be additional markdowns because they’re trying to clear out the inventory. No price adjustments.

Does it suck to buy something when it drops in price? Absolutely but I ask myself would I want to take the chance that the item would have sold out before that additional price drop?

Unpopular opinion but getting refunded the $10 from $69 to $59 is pointless to me. If that $10 is really that important to you then you probably shouldn’t be spending it on lululemon leggings. Yeah it’s sucks some people are getting it for $10 cheaper but you already agreed to the $69 price. Also, you’re clogging up live chat and what not for people that actually have issues and need help.

Edited: I don’t mean to attack anyone. The effort of contacting support and getting $10 to me isn’t worth it. Like in comparison, you spend so much on lulu that the $10 difference isn’t much. I understand getting an adjustment for when you bought something full price then it got marked down, but these leggings were already marked down. Trying to $30+ back from a full price item to a mark down is worth it but that’s it.

Wait.. I’m confused lol so people are trying to get items that are regularly priced basically for the same as some on the sale now?

Yikes, I bought the in movements online and was lucky enough to get a refund on the difference...when I received my pair today, the tag actually shows the $59 markdown so I think it’d be unfair if they didn’t honor it at all...

Oooh I must have gotten lucky! I just had the boyfriend box tee adjusted when the price dropped lower than I paid on WMTM

it always has said final sale when purchasing it in your cart with a red banner

Hey, that may be a glitch on the app, WMTM stuff is still showing up as final sale on the website for me, and in the cart.

ah yes lets give away the keys. no more patents and secret recipes. open up the coca cola vault. no more expertise or ownership of processes or ideas. share your hard earned expertise with the world for free.

it sounds like someone hasnt created anything they are proud of or hasnt thought this through at all.

oh yeah, like the Plumbus!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJk4y9NGvE

Narrated by Huggbees

Wow I like this one

I like this. It’s the ultimate extension of ingredient labelling requirements. Trade secrets for most things can be protected, just as they are in actual “how it’s made videos” and exceptions could be granted for very sensitive products where the entire process needs to be kept secret. A bonded inspector could do site visits and indicate the level of ethical/sanitary/etc conditions. Just like a health inspector doesn’t divulge recipes, but does report on food prep conditions.

I have no problem with the policy but this should somehow be enforced when buying instead of canceling orders. I ordered 4 and mine got canceled for some reason but I have ordered more than that in the past simply because my friends have asked me to order for them and they paid me back later. It also drives me crazy that when my order gets canceled the funds are still processing and not available for a week sometimes. It’s not the biggest deal for me but ultimately makes me spend less money at Lulu because it feels like I have spent more than I have. 😅

Ok if thefts are happening of ONE type of product on such a grand scale that many customers are routinely placing orders for 5-6 of the same thing, just in different colors, because they anticipated most of their order being canceled because the colors are unavailable, they I don't know what to tell ya... that's an even bigger problem.

Also, I highly double Lululemon would tolerate such a vast amount of thefts as that's a threat to revenue. It's way more likely they just have a shitty inventory management system because either 1) they won't invest the funds for a better one, 2) they won't invest the funds to properly scale the one they have, or 3) they've hired someone very incompetent to be in charge of this particular area of logistics.

This is great news. Aside from the occasional person buying them for an event (ie, bachelorette party), someone buying 5 or more is a reseller.

I completely agree. The amount of "We've Cancelled Your Order" emails I have received is insane!

The victim? I was giving everyone a heads up on the new policy. I literally agreed with the policy change lol. I was just providing a fair warning for those that want an EBB in multiple colors and/or buy them for friends/family. No need to be rude ??? :(

As much as I love this, we’ve seen the cyclical nature of these rave products that become impossibly hard to get. It was the oversized scubas in the winter and now it’s the EBB. it’ll be something else in another few months too lol. But glad to see them trying to be proactive for the time being!

I’m so confused. Why in this day-and-age can an online retailer (with this much revenue and history) not control order quantities at the time of purchase? And why can they not manage their online inventory? If they’re constantly canceling things people order because they are out-of-stock, then that’s just shitty inventory management and web logistics, and they need to replace whoever is in charge of that. It sounds to me like they created this problem (of people ordering way more than they want) because they can’t do proper inventory management. I mean, personally I don’t get people losing their minds over this product to begin with…but from reading this thread it just seems like their logistics is pathetic.