Lululemon tested new markets using cheap alley pop-ups before investing in stores
Chip Wilson · Lululemon Athletica: Chip Wilson · Jun 18, 2018 · at 31:47
Lululemon founder Chip Wilson describes the company's early market expansion playbook starting around 2002.
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“So we would go into every city in the future, set up a store in a back alley or in a side street and develop our market, invite yoga instructors in before we spent, you know, 600 to a million dollars on a store.”
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