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  "company": "Garage (Canadian fashion)",
  "headline": "Gen Z brand opens 20 profitable stores per year across UK and Canada.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Retail expansion and profitability at unit level · Garage (Canadian fashion)\n\nGen Z brand opens 20 profitable stores per year across UK and Canada.\n\nprofitability at the unit level is the moat. Garage did not franchise or partner — it owns the supply chain and the real estate. Each store hits 20 per year because the inventory model is tight and the customer line is deep. For a DTC brand thinking about retail, the move is not 'open a flagship and see what happens.' It's: calculate the unit economics at 1 store, prove the model works, then scale 20 at a time on real cash flow, not hope.\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-2026-07-12t00-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/garage-canadian-fashion-2026-07-12t00-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/garage-canadian-fashion-2026-07-12t00-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Retail expansion and profitability at unit level · Garage (Canadian fashion)\n\nGen Z brand opens 20 profitable stores per year across UK and Canada.\n\nprofitability at the unit level is the moat. Garage did not franchise or partner — it owns the supply chain and the real estate. Each store hits 20 per year because the inventory model is tight and the customer line is deep. For a DTC brand thinking about retail, the move is not 'open a flagship and see what happens.' It's: calculate the unit economics at 1 store, prove the model works, then scale 20 at a time on real cash flow, not hope.\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-2026-07-12t00-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/garage-canadian-fashion-2026-07-12t00-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/garage-canadian-fashion-2026-07-12t00-2",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Retail expansion and profitability at unit level · Garage (Canadian fashion)\n\nGen Z brand opens 20 profitable stores per year across UK…\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/garage-canadian-fashion-2026-07-12t00-2",
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      "title": "Gen Z brand opens 20 profitable stores per year across UK and Canada.",
      "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 and has recently expanded to London and Manchester, per Glossy, showing that Gen Z retail is moving back to physical.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): profitability at the unit level is the moat. Garage did not franchise or partner — it owns the supply chain and the real estate. Each store hits 20 per year because the inventory model is tight and the customer line is deep. For a DTC brand thinking about retail, the move is not 'open a flagship and see what happens.' It's: calculate the unit economics at 1 store, prove the model works, then scale 20 at a time on real cash flow, not hope.\nWhat that means for you: profitability at the unit level is the moat. Garage did not franchise or partner — it owns the supply chain and the real estate. Each store hits 20 per year because the inventory model is tight and the customer line is deep. For a DTC brand thinking about retail, the move is not 'open a flagship and see what happens.' It's: calculate the unit economics at 1 store, prove the model works, then scale 20 at a time on real cash flow, not hope.\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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