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  "company": "Garage",
  "headline": "Canadian retail brand opens 20 profitable stores a year as Gen Z returns to mall.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Profitable store expansion across multiple markets · Garage\n\nCanadian retail brand opens 20 profitable stores a year as Gen Z returns to mall.\n\nGarage is running the play most mall brands got wrong in the 2010s: they're not trying to be in every mall. They're betting that Gen Z—who grew up watching mall retail implode—will actually go to the mall *for a reason*, for a specific brand. Garage is that reason in Canada and now the UK. The profitability per door is the real number here. It means the model doesn't break at 20 or 50 doors. Watch for them to stay disciplined on location.\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-2026-07-12t06-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/garage-2026-07-12t06-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/garage-2026-07-12t06-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Profitable store expansion across multiple markets · Garage\n\nCanadian retail brand opens 20 profitable stores a year as Gen Z returns to mall.\n\nGarage is running the play most mall brands got wrong in the 2010s: they're not trying to be in every mall. They're betting that Gen Z—who grew up watching mall retail implode—will actually go to the mall *for a reason*, for a specific brand. Garage is that reason in Canada and now the UK. The profitability per door is the real number here. It means the model doesn't break at 20 or 50 doors. Watch for them to stay disciplined on location.\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-2026-07-12t06-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/garage-2026-07-12t06-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/garage-2026-07-12t06-2",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Profitable store expansion across multiple markets · Garage\n\nCanadian retail brand opens 20 profitable stores a year as Gen Z returns to mall.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/garage-2026-07-12t06-2",
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      "title": "Canadian retail brand opens 20 profitable stores a year as Gen Z returns to mall.",
      "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, is opening 20 profitable stores per year, per Glossy, with recent openings in London and Manchester, capitalizing on Gen Z's return to physical retail.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): do not chase every available box. Open stores only in markets where your customer lives and has already proven repeat purchase online. Garage likely built a heatmap from its DTC traffic and website visits, then opened only in clusters where that signal was loudest. This prevents the false economy of 'more doors = more revenue.' It's 20 profitable stores, not 20 stores fighting for rent.\nWhat that means for you: Garage is running the play most mall brands got wrong in the 2010s: they're not trying to be in every mall. They're betting that Gen Z—who grew up watching mall retail implode—will actually go to the mall *for a reason*, for a specific brand. Garage is that reason in Canada and now the UK. The profitability per door is the real number here. It means the model doesn't break at 20 or 50 doors. Watch for them to stay disciplined on location.\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/?utm_campaign=glossydis&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=general-rss.)\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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