Lululemon's Like New resale platform went live for Canadians in both English and French; the launch was announced on 17 August 2026.
It is peer-to-peer: individuals list their own used lululemon pieces and ship them to the buyer, inside a lululemon-branded storefront built with the resale platform Archive.
Cleaning, repair, grading and shipping for Canadian orders run out of a new Calgary facility operated by Denver-based Tersus Solutions.
A mail-in trade-in event runs September 14–21, 2026, paying out in purchase credit.
Sourcing Journal reported that Canadian transaction fees, payout calculation, authentication and buyer protection were not disclosed at launch.

Canadians can now buy and sell used lululemon gear on lululemon's own platform. The company opened its Like New resale shop to Canada on August 17, 2026, five years after the program started as a two-state pilot in the United States.

The quieter half of the announcement matters more to anyone who moves gear: the physical work of Canadian resale — inspecting, cleaning, repairing, photographing and shipping — now happens in Calgary.

What actually launched

Like New is a peer-to-peer resale platform, not a consignment shop. Individual owners list their own gently used lululemon items, decide how to present them, and ship them to the buyer. The storefront is fully lululemon-branded and runs in English and French, built on technology from the branded-resale company Archive.

That distinction is the whole story. Lululemon is not buying your leggings and reselling them at a markup. It is hosting the transaction, and taking a cut of a sale it used to lose entirely to Facebook groups, Poshmark and local classifieds.

Retail-Insider and SGB Media both report the program began as a two-state US pilot in 2021 before going US-wide and then crossing the border.

Why Calgary is suddenly the hub

Tersus Solutions, a Denver recommerce-logistics firm, opened a facility of more than 25,000 square feet in Calgary's Burns Industrial area in August 2026. It is the company's fifth North American site. It is also the first it owns and operates outside the United States. Everything bought through Like New in Canada passes through it.

That means cleaning, repair, condition grading, digitizing items for the online store, packing and shipping. It is the unglamorous middle of resale, and it decides whether a used-gear purchase feels like a bargain or a gamble.

Tersus cleans much of what it handles with liquid carbon dioxide instead of water, a near-waterless process that also skips dry-cleaning solvents. The company says it saved roughly 9.8 million litres (2.6 million US gallons) of water in 2025.

"This facility puts us closer to the inventory and closer to the brands we serve in Canada," Tersus CEO Peter Whitcomb said in the company's announcement.

Tersus already does this work for around thirty brands, Trellis reported this summer, among them Patagonia, The North Face and Arc'teryx.

What sellers get — and what still hasn't been said

The payout picture is genuinely unsettled, and that is worth knowing before you mail anything. Two outlets published different pictures on the same day. Anyone deciding between Like New and selling a piece themselves is deciding partly on numbers that are not public yet.

Daily Hive checked the live platform and found trade-in credit tiered by item. Lighter pieces such as tanks and shirts drew roughly $5 to $20 in in-store credit. Coats and jackets ran from about $10 up to $75 through the mail-in route. The same check found items priced as much as 60 per cent below retail — Chargefeel 3 shoes at $82 against $158 new.

The Calgary Herald reported that sellers receive 70 per cent of the sale price in cash or 90 per cent in store credit. Sourcing Journal published the same week. It reported that the companies had not disclosed Canadian transaction fees, how seller payouts are calculated, or what buyer protection applies to items shipped directly between users.

Both can be reported in good faith; they cannot both be the last word. Treat the split as unconfirmed for Canada until lululemon publishes Canadian terms.

What it changes if you already sell your own gear

If you already list your own gear, Like New is a new option with a narrow shape, not a replacement. It is single-brand. Take the credit and you are paid in a currency you can spend in exactly one place. The rest of your kit still needs somewhere to go.

The trade is convenience for reach and flexibility. A brand platform hands you a buyer who is already shopping that brand. An open marketplace puts your used women's outdoor and activewear next to the ski shell and the bike helmet. It also pays in cash you can spend anywhere.

Three practical points if you are weighing the two:

Credit versus cash. Ninety per cent in store credit is only worth more than cash if you were going to shop there anyway. If you are selling to fund a different piece of kit, the cash number is the real number.
One brand versus a closet. A clear-out is usually mixed — tights and leggings alongside men's used technical clothing and shell jackets. A single-brand platform takes one slice of that.
Who does the work. Peer-to-peer means you photograph, describe, price and ship — the same work as any other listing. Honest condition notes and daylight photos are what convert either way. If you want to list it yourself, the effort is comparable.

Brand-run resale is landing in Canada

Brands are building resale in Canada in earnest. MEC opened Canada's first permanent Gear Swap store in Kelowna in May 2026. Lululemon's Calgary hub follows within four months. Both are bets that the second sale of a garment belongs to the company that made it.

"Our products are created with high standards for technical performance and quality, which makes them perfectly suited for life well beyond a single owner," said Maureen Erickson, lululemon's senior vice-president of retail experience.

For buyers this is mostly good news. More graded and cleaned inventory raises the floor on what secondhand feels like. For sellers it is a reminder that used technical clothing has real, competed-for value — and that where you sell it changes what you get.

FAQ

How does lululemon Like New work in Canada? You list your own used lululemon item on lululemon's branded resale site and ship it to the buyer yourself. Cleaning, grading and fulfilment for items handled through the program run through the Calgary facility.

Do you get cash or store credit? The mail-in trade-in route pays in purchase credit. Reports of a cash-versus-credit split for peer sales conflict, and lululemon has not published Canadian payout terms.

When is the Canadian trade-in event? September 14–21, 2026, by mail-in, for eligible pre-owned lululemon items.

How much cheaper is used lululemon? Daily Hive's check of the launch stock found pieces as much as 60 per cent below retail, including Chargefeel 3 shoes at $82 versus $158 new.

Can you sell used lululemon anywhere else? Yes. General used-gear marketplaces, local classifieds and consignment stores all take it, usually for cash and usually alongside the rest of your gear.

The bottom line

Like New in Canada is a real expansion of where used technical clothing can go. The Calgary hub is the part that will decide whether it works. Until lululemon publishes Canadian fee and payout terms, price each piece both ways — brand credit against open-market cash — and pick per item, not per platform.

Sources

Retail-Insider, on Like New expanding to Canada, August 2026
Sourcing Journal (WWD), on Like New moving beyond the US, August 2026
Outdoor Sportswire, carrying Tersus Solutions' Calgary facility announcement, August 2026
SGB Media, on lululemon bringing its resale program to Canada, August 2026
Ecotextile News, on the Canadian launch and the Calgary site, August 2026
Daily Hive and 604 Now, launch-inventory and trade-in checks, August 2026
Calgary Herald, on the Calgary processing hub, August 2026
Trellis, on Tersus Solutions' recommerce operations, summer 2026
Castanet and KelownaNow, on MEC's Kelowna Gear Swap store, May 2026

Retrade Editorial Team — last updated 24 August 2026. This article was produced with AI assistance and editorial automation, overseen by the Retrade editorial team.

Lululemon's Like New Resale Shop Opens in Canada