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  "company": "Garage (Canadian Fashion)",
  "headline": "Cult brand opens 20 profitable stores per year by going back to malls.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ SILVER · Retail expansion against e-commerce trend · Garage (Canadian Fashion)\n\nCult brand opens 20 profitable stores per year by going back to malls.\n\nThe modal operator reading this probably thinks of retail as something big brands do, or something you do when your DTC is exhausted. Garage is a reminder that retail can be the first move if the unit economics work. The fact that they're opening 20 stores a year and they're all profitable means they've solved something most DTC brands never try: how to make a single-unit physical space that doesn't rely on marketing subsidies.\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-canadian-fashion-2026-07-09t09-4\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/garage-canadian-fashion-2026-07-09t09-4\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/garage-canadian-fashion-2026-07-09t09-4",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ SILVER · Retail expansion against e-commerce trend · Garage (Canadian Fashion)\n\nCult brand opens 20 profitable stores per year by going back to malls.\n\nThe modal operator reading this probably thinks of retail as something big brands do, or something you do when your DTC is exhausted. Garage is a reminder that retail can be the first move if the unit economics work. The fact that they're opening 20 stores a year and they're all profitable means they've solved something most DTC brands never try: how to make a single-unit physical space that doesn't rely on marketing subsidies.\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-canadian-fashion-2026-07-09t09-4\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/garage-canadian-fashion-2026-07-09t09-4\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/garage-canadian-fashion-2026-07-09t09-4",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ SILVER · Retail expansion against e-commerce trend · Garage (Canadian Fashion)\n\nCult brand opens 20 profitable stores per year by going back to malls.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/garage-canadian-fashion-2026-07-09t09-4",
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      "title": "Cult brand opens 20 profitable stores per year by going back 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 Canadian fashion brand, is opening 20 profitable stores per year and expanding into UK markets. The brand is moving counter to the broader retail narrative by betting on physical locations as Gen Z returns to malls, per Glossy.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): profitable retail stores aren't dead; they're just selective. Garage is opening 20 stores a year because every one prints money. That means site selection is ruthless—they're not opening in weak malls; they're in high-traffic zones where the demographic is dense and foot traffic is real. If you're DTC-first, don't assume retail is a money-losing channel. Test one store in a market where your customer density is proven, make it profitable on foot traffic alone (no subsidies, no grand-opening marketing), then use that unit as proof to expand to five. Most brands never run that test because they expect retail to be a media spend. Garage doesn't.\nWhat that means for you: The modal operator reading this probably thinks of retail as something big brands do, or something you do when your DTC is exhausted. Garage is a reminder that retail can be the first move if the unit economics work. The fact that they're opening 20 stores a year and they're all profitable means they've solved something most DTC brands never try: how to make a single-unit physical space that doesn't rely on marketing subsidies.\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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