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  "company": "Garage (Canadian fashion brand)",
  "headline": "Opened 20 profitable stores a year, now expanding into Europe with UK and Manchester locations.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Retail expansion into new markets · Garage (Canadian fashion brand)\n\nOpened 20 profitable stores a year, now expanding into Europe with UK and Manchester locations.\n\nThere's a layer of physical retail that lives between DTC and big-box—it's the cult brand with real estate discipline. Garage is proof that a small brand can own a specific customer and open 20 stores a year profitably, which most people think is impossible outside of athletic wear or fast fashion. They're moving fast because they know exactly who shops there and what they want.\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-brand-2026-07-10t03-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/garage-canadian-fashion-brand-2026-07-10t03-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/garage-canadian-fashion-brand-2026-07-10t03-3",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Retail expansion into new markets · Garage (Canadian fashion brand)\n\nOpened 20 profitable stores a year, now expanding into Europe with UK and Manchester locations.\n\nThere's a layer of physical retail that lives between DTC and big-box—it's the cult brand with real estate discipline. Garage is proof that a small brand can own a specific customer and open 20 stores a year profitably, which most people think is impossible outside of athletic wear or fast fashion. They're moving fast because they know exactly who shops there and what they want.\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-brand-2026-07-10t03-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/garage-canadian-fashion-brand-2026-07-10t03-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/garage-canadian-fashion-brand-2026-07-10t03-3",
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      "title": "Opened 20 profitable stores a year, now expanding into Europe with UK and Manchester locations.",
      "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 👇\nPer Glossy, cult Canadian fashion brand Garage is opening profitable stores at scale—20 a year—and expanded into the UK with new locations in London and Manchester since November 2025.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if you own or control a product that skews physical and appeals to a cohort (in Garage's case, Gen Z looking for cool basics), retail expansion at 20 units per year means they have nailed store format, lease negotiation, and inventory turns. The move into new geographies (UK expansion for a Canadian brand) proves the store template is not regional—it travels. For an operator at scale, the learning is: profitability per unit is the gate. You don't open a second store until the first one is run correctly.\nWhat that means for you: There's a layer of physical retail that lives between DTC and big-box—it's the cult brand with real estate discipline. Garage is proof that a small brand can own a specific customer and open 20 stores a year profitably, which most people think is impossible outside of athletic wear or fast fashion. They're moving fast because they know exactly who shops there and what they want.\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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