Evaluating only Yoppie’s profile at its peak — without knowing the outcome — the model ranked Unit economics as the #1 likely cause. That’s exactly how it died.
Key Events Timeline
FOUNDING
FUNDING
CRISIS
SHUTDOWN
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Documented cause
Yoppie built a subscription box for personalised period care products — customised combinations of organic tampons, pads, and supplements sent monthly. They raised £3M and built a passionate customer base around clean, organic period care. But subscription box economics are brutal: CAC is high, churn is high, and fulfilment costs leave almost nothing. Amazon and ASOS both built their own organic period care ranges at comparable prices with no subscription friction. Unable to achieve scale and facing rising customer acquisition costs, Yoppie went into administration in October 2023.
Lesson
“Subscription models for consumables only work when repeat purchase frequency is high and Amazon cannot replicate the curation.”
Failure anatomy
Collapse type
Bankruptcy
📉 MEDIUM
Hype cycle
None
Moat type
Brand
Fatal mistake
Unit Economics
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