generated: '2026-07-19'
method: searched
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Tote
status: defunct
summary: >-
  Le Tote is a defunct company, not a dormant one. There is no API to version, no
  deprecation policy, no SLA, and no status page — the entire consumer service was
  shut down and its domain no longer resolves. This artifact records the company
  lifecycle so downstream consumers of the network understand why every API-side
  artifact in this repo is legitimately empty.
api_surface:
  public_api: false
  note: >-
    No evidence of a public Le Tote API, developer portal, or API documentation was
    found. The only public developer surface the company ever maintained is its
    GitHub organization of internal engineering libraries (see packages/).
versioning: null
deprecation: null
sla: null
status_page: null
deprecated_operations: []
timeline:
- date: '2012'
  event: Le Tote founded in San Francisco by Brett Northart and Rakesh Tondon.
  source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Tote
- date: '2013'
  event: Participates in Y Combinator Summer 2013 batch.
  source: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/le-tote
- date: '2019-08'
  event: >-
    Agrees to acquire Lord & Taylor from Hudson's Bay Company for C$99.5 million
    upfront plus C$33.2 million deferred; HBC takes a 25% equity stake in Le Tote.
  source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Tote
- date: '2020-08-02'
  event: Le Tote and Lord & Taylor file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
  source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Tote
- date: '2020-10-20'
  event: Saadia Group acquires the Le Tote and Lord & Taylor assets out of bankruptcy.
  source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Tote
- date: '2024-03'
  event: >-
    Women's Wear Daily reports Saadia Group has been "effectively shut down" after
    defaulting on asset-based lending agreements.
  source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Tote
- date: '2024-spring'
  event: >-
    The letote.com website goes offline; the final archived snapshot is dated
    2024-02-19.
  source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Tote
- date: '2026-07-19'
  event: >-
    Probed for this pipeline run — letote.com still registered (IONOS) but wholly
    unresolvable (SERVFAIL, dangling Route 53 delegation). GitHub org remains
    public and readable; last repository activity 2020.
  source: security/le-tote-domain-security.yml
open_source:
  github_org: https://github.com/LeToteTeam
  repositories: 19
  first_party_non_forks: 5
  published_packages: 4
  last_activity: '2020-03-30'
  artifact: packages/le-tote-packages.yml