Gilt also had to deal with increasing competition from the likes of Amazon, which ventured into discount sales for luxury brands with the launch MyHabit in In , it changed CEOs.
Hudson Bay is integrating Gilt into its operations. The flash sale business model is hard to scale to billions of dollars as it is predicated upon the fact that there is a limited amount of designer products that are available for clearance at any given time.
Typically, designers or retailers do not carry multi-billion dollars of excess inventory. Thus, there was always a fundamental flaw built into the investment thesis of the VCs who expected Gilt Groupe to scale to a multi-billion dollar company. And the entrepreneurs did not seem to correct this flawed thinking, nor, perhaps, were they aware that there was a flaw in their market projections.
Gilt Groupe simply could not have sustained itself without the market hype and exorbitant venture funding. Gilt Groupe would have worked fine as a smaller business, catering to a smaller number of high quality shoppers.
There is definitely a segment of women who shop designer clothing and accessories and they would have been happy to keep buying from Gilt Groupe if they continued to provide interesting fashion at attractive prices.
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