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Lululemon urges customers to return flawed bags to Lululemon stores so they can properly dispose of them. December 23, at AM: Removed incorrect information about parts per million of lead.
The Winnipeg Free Press invites you to share your opinion on this story in a letter to the editor. He is quoted as saying, "Women's lives changed immediately [after the pill]. Men did not know how to relate to the new female. Thus came the era of divorces. According to Business Insider and Financial Post , Lululemon founder Chip Wilson told Canada's National Post Business magazine which is now called Financial Post magazine , " It's funny to watch them try and say it ," when asked about his views on the Japanese pronunciation of the company's name.
While Wilson reportedly now denies saying this , a now-deleted blog post from on the Lululemon website stated the following about the name, according to Financial Post : "It was thought that a Japanese marketing firm would not try to create a North American sounding brand with the letter 'L' because the sound does not exist in Japanese phonetics.
By including an 'L' in the name it was thought the Japanese consumer would find the name innately North American and authentic. In essence, the name 'lululemon' has no roots and means nothing other than it has 3 'L's' in it. Nothing more and nothing less. The permalink to the blog post still exists, though it now redirects to the Community events page, in hopes you'll forget all about it. If that weren't enough, he even more recently late-shamed a reporter by suggesting she's on Jewish Standard Time and therefore doesn't respect other people's time.
Founder Chip Wilson reportedly first read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged when he was 18 and since then has had an affinity for the philosophies set forth in the book. The problem? The primary philosophy in the book, Objectivism , has been criticized for being based on selfishness.
For many, this is contrary to what a yoga-based company should stand for and sparked outrage among some. While the original Lululemon blog post "Who is John Galt? It notes that Wilson realized "the impact the book's ideology had on his quest to elevate the world from mediocrity to greatness it is not coincidental that this is Lululemon's company vision " and that the bags "are visual reminders for ourselves to live a life we love and conquer the epidemic of mediocrity.
We all have a John Galt inside of us cheering us on. In addition to the outcry that Objectivism does not mesh with what yoga stands for, other yoga devotees have called questioned Lululemon's claim that they sell "yoga-inspired athletic apparel" while many of their products have nothing to do with yoga.
Others reported in the same article have criticized the positive messaging of the Lululemon manifesto as being vague, unrelated to yoga, and as a slogan for selling rather than actual yoga ideology they claim the brand is built on. Former employees have been critical as well. In an anonymous Jezebel article, one former employee said, "Immediately after I started work at Lululemon, I realized that almost all their talk about empowerment and happiness was empty.
In January , a woman named Heather Albert posted a heartbreaking story on Facebook detailing her traumatic body-shaming experience while shopping at Lululemon in Park City, UT. Its all about perception. Lululemon is not any different, and if you think so, you are being naive or ignorant - or both. I believe the quality has dwindled so low, this recall is just more proof.
You really have to be a defensive consumer these days. I've switched to buying organic milk and produce. I'm trying to convince my husband to switch to grass fed beef and organic meats. Our environment is slowly killing us and nobody cares because it's all about stock price and who greases who's palm in the government. As someone who's spent literally thousands upon thousands at lulu, it annoys me to recognize you may preach all this "feel good" mumbo jumbo but, in reality, you're just Nike in sheep's clothing and you'll do whatever it takes to make more money.
I'm all for making money, but don't pretend to be something you're not. Bring the manufacturing back to Canada or the United States and I'd doubt you'd have this problem and you'd actually be practicing what you ardently preach. Anon You're making incorrect assumptions about me. I have also been one to speak up about issues with quality, poor customer service etc.
Just because I think there are people being critical about this just for the sake of being critical due to the media hype, doesn't generate the widespread generalizations that you seem to be applying. I didn't say this was a positive thing at all, I said it's great they're taking action and offering options.
But it's not as severe as some people are picking up on that see "lead" "recall" "lululemon bags" and think they should be causing posion control because they used it as a lunch bag. Could it turn out to be somethign bigger? We can be as jaded as we'd like about businesses but sometimes things need to be taken at face value too. It's been demonstrated to be below unsafe and legal levels and that's something more tangible to go on than the situation with Toyota.
China has been outed out before about using toxic chemicals in children's toys. Lead is dangerous, and the fact that these bags are resued to carry food is not good. I will be getting rid of mine. I agree that the quality is going down, look at the Pique Stride Jacket, the zipper is so flimsy made it will break in no time. The Define however is made with a heavier zipper.
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