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  "company": "Garage",
  "headline": "Canadian fashion brand opens 20 profitable stores annually as Gen Z returns to malls.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Accelerated physical retail expansion · Garage\n\nCanadian fashion brand opens 20 profitable stores annually as Gen Z returns to malls.\n\nThe 'Gen Z back to malls' thing gets overplayed. What matters is that Garage is opening stores and they're making money. That means they've solved the part everyone glosses over: the cash on day one. Most brands open stores to look big or to test. Garage opens stores because the unit works. Twenty a year is methodical, not reckless. That cadence only works if you've already figured out the drill.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/garage-2026-07-10t18-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/garage-2026-07-10t18-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/garage-2026-07-10t18-3",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Accelerated physical retail expansion · Garage\n\nCanadian fashion brand opens 20 profitable stores annually as Gen Z returns to malls.\n\nThe 'Gen Z back to malls' thing gets overplayed. What matters is that Garage is opening stores and they're making money. That means they've solved the part everyone glosses over: the cash on day one. Most brands open stores to look big or to test. Garage opens stores because the unit works. Twenty a year is methodical, not reckless. That cadence only works if you've already figured out the drill.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/garage-2026-07-10t18-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/garage-2026-07-10t18-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/garage-2026-07-10t18-3",
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      "title": "Canadian fashion brand opens 20 profitable stores annually as Gen Z returns to malls.",
      "body": "✍️ YOUR NOTE — write 2–3 lines to ONE person so they feel: \"this is about me… I could actually do this… I could make money from this.\" Energize them, make it yours. (This is the part that gets the opens.)\n[ your take… ]\n———\nHere is a real one you can run this week 👇\nGarage, a cult Canadian fashion brand, has been opening 20 new stores per year profitably, with recent expansion into London and Manchester, per Glossy.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): don't open a flagship and hope. Nail unit economics on the first 3-5 stores, then automate the opening playbook. Garage's 20-a-year cadence means they have templated: lease negotiation, visual merchandising, staffing, first-week campaigns. Each store probably follows the same blueprint. Figure out which product mix, staffing model, and opening spend makes a store profitable on day one, then replicate. Malls are hungry for brands that move product fast. If your COGS is right, you can open profitably.\nWhat that means for you: The 'Gen Z back to malls' thing gets overplayed. What matters is that Garage is opening stores and they're making money. That means they've solved the part everyone glosses over: the cash on day one. Most brands open stores to look big or to test. Garage opens stores because the unit works. Twenty a year is methodical, not reckless. That cadence only works if you've already figured out the drill.\nIf you make, sell, or gift anything with your name on it — this is yours to run. You can do this.\n(Real, not theory — Glossy: https://www.glossy.co/fashion/fashion-briefing-as-gen-z-goes-back-to-the-mall-garage-is-opening-20-profitable-stores-a-year/.)\n———\nOr — want it built FOR you? Your logo, your products, your own private room, priced and ready, in about five minutes. That's literally what we do →\nhttps://www.pops4.com/vip?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=stash",
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