Clothing retailer with over 400 stores takes note before store closures – shutdowns were not tied to sales

LUXURY sports brand Lululemon has abruptly closed a location that was looted by thieves.

The brand is fleeing Washington DC after suffering episodes of retail crime.

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The store left customers a farewell note before locking its doors for the last time on Sunday night.

“Our location is closing,” the note says to read.

“Our time at this location is coming to an end.

“We love being part of this community and are grateful to be here!”

The message encouraged shoppers to make one last visit to the store before it closed for good.

The 14th Street store in Northwest Washington closed permanently on Sunday, July 21, 2024.

The chain signed its farewell note with “your sweat, lululemon 14th Street.”

The parting note doesn’t explain why this particular location closed, but it doesn’t appear to be tied to sales numbers.

The company has not yet confirmed the reason for the location’s closure, but the move comes less than a week after it was robbed.

Lululemon has been the target of numerous robbery attempts in Washington DC this year.

Thousands of dollars worth of merchandise were stolen from the store.

Lululemon was contacted by The US Sun for comment.

The 14th Street store wasn’t the only Lululemon in Washington to be targeted.

Two other stores in the city were robbed on the same day – the Georgetown and Penn Quarter stores.

Four people were seen carrying out the robberies, according to surveillance footage obtained by the Fox affiliate WTF.

Lululemon has been abruptly exiting cities across the U.S. and several more closures are on the horizon.

The Pacific Place store in Seattle, Washington, closed in April 2024, and the company said four more stores will close in the coming months. future.

O National Retail Federation reported a huge increase in retail crime in the US.

Retailers reported losses of $112 billion in 2022, up from $93 billion in 2021.

And Lululemon isn’t the only store to experience robberies in the US.

With the increase in inflation, many stores became subject to this crime.

Thieves in Florida were seen on camera stealing nearly $2 million worth of designer handbags from a hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, in May.

Shoplifting in the US has become a growing problem.

Even stores like Target have started locking up basic items like deodorant and shampoo to try to reduce crime.