Welltodo Today: Mirrorless Gyms, Under Armour’s New App, Meal Kits Are Hurting Grocery Sales

Today’s key global wellness news articles from around the world, impacting the industry and influencing the business of wellness.

Lululemon’s Impressive Rebound Looks Stretched

Lululemon Athletica Inc. deserves more credit than criticism. The yoga-gear maker’s founder, Chip Wilson, blasted the company last week, saying in a letter to shareholders that it has “lost its way.” He critiqued the stock’s disappointing three-year performance relative to rivals Under Armour Inc. and Nike Inc.

Meal Kit Services Are Taking A Bite Out Of High-End Grocery Sales

And brick-and-mortar stores aren’t doing anything to stop them.

Under Armour’s New App Will Tell You What to Buy

Under Armour has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to build up a digital community of 170 million members t hat log billions of physical activities and meals. Now the athletic-apparel maker has a new activity in mind for its latest app: shopping.

This Gym is Going Mirrorless for a Really Important Reason

When exercise seekers visited Blink Fitness’s Manhattan locations on Monday, they likely noticed something very different about the club-like the fact that its mirrors were missing. No, they weren’t robbed, the mirrors were simply blanketed as part of the chain’s Monday Without Mirrors initiative in an effort to encourage guests to think about fitness differently.

Expect more wellness industry consolidation, experts say

Industry experts believe that more consolidation in the wellness industry is inevitable as large companies seek scalable solutions they can offer on a global basis, but they also say there will always be room for innovative start-ups offering unique services. In 2014 Stay Well Health Management and Krames StayWell merged, and Interactive Health acquired Health Solutions.

Rebel Kitchen Founder: “A Lot of Confusion About What’s Healthy and What’s Not” – BevNET.com

Tamara Arbib, the founder of Rebel Kitchen, a U.K.-based brand of organic, coconut milk-based beverages, Arbib envisions her company as being a leader in plant-based nutrition as a way to “effect change in people’s health on a global scale.”