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  "company": "Garage",
  "headline": "Canadian fashion label opened 20 stores annually as Gen Z returned to malls.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Profitable physical expansion · Garage\n\nCanadian fashion label opened 20 stores annually as Gen Z returned to malls.\n\nEveryone lost faith in retail. Garage didn't—it just rebuilt the unit economics. Twenty stores a year sounds slow until you realize each one is cash-positive. That's the unglamorous work: building a store model that doesn't bleed money. The upside is you can keep building it without a capital raise. The mall is back, but only for brands disciplined enough to open profitably.\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-2026-07-10t21-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/garage-2026-07-10t21-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/garage-2026-07-10t21-3",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Profitable physical expansion · Garage\n\nCanadian fashion label opened 20 stores annually as Gen Z returned to malls.\n\nEveryone lost faith in retail. Garage didn't—it just rebuilt the unit economics. Twenty stores a year sounds slow until you realize each one is cash-positive. That's the unglamorous work: building a store model that doesn't bleed money. The upside is you can keep building it without a capital raise. The mall is back, but only for brands disciplined enough to open profitably.\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-2026-07-10t21-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/garage-2026-07-10t21-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/garage-2026-07-10t21-3",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Profitable physical expansion · Garage\n\nCanadian fashion label opened 20 stores annually as Gen Z returned to malls.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/garage-2026-07-10t21-3",
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      "title": "Canadian fashion label opened 20 stores annually as Gen Z returned 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 opened 20 profitable stores per year and expanded into the UK and Europe, per Glossy.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): profitability per store, not store count, is the metric that matters. If you're opening stores and losing money per unit, you're betting on scale you may never hit. Garage reports it opens profitable stores—meaning each location pays its own rent and overhead before corporate touch. Start with unit-level P&L, not growth narrative. Build the cost model backwards: what does each store need to sell to be cash-positive? That number is your opening threshold. Count stores only after the math clears.\nWhat that means for you: Everyone lost faith in retail. Garage didn't—it just rebuilt the unit economics. Twenty stores a year sounds slow until you realize each one is cash-positive. That's the unglamorous work: building a store model that doesn't bleed money. The upside is you can keep building it without a capital raise. The mall is back, but only for brands disciplined enough to open profitably.\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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