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  "company": "Garage (Canadian Fashion Brand)",
  "headline": "Cult fashion retailer opens 20 profitable stores yearly as Gen Z returns to malls.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Profitable retail expansion · Garage (Canadian Fashion Brand)\n\nCult fashion retailer opens 20 profitable stores yearly as Gen Z returns to malls.\n\nGarage reminds us that retail is not dying — retail is just filtering down to the brands customers actually want to walk into. Most operators see 'Gen Z goes to malls' and think it means the death of DTC. It's the opposite. It means DTC brands that built an audience can now open a store where that audience already spends time and it will print money. Garage is opening 20 stores a year because every store is a harvest, not a 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-brand-2026-07-10t06-3\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-2026-07-10t06-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/garage-canadian-fashion-brand-2026-07-10t06-3",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Profitable retail expansion · Garage (Canadian Fashion Brand)\n\nCult fashion retailer opens 20 profitable stores yearly as Gen Z returns to malls.\n\nGarage reminds us that retail is not dying — retail is just filtering down to the brands customers actually want to walk into. Most operators see 'Gen Z goes to malls' and think it means the death of DTC. It's the opposite. It means DTC brands that built an audience can now open a store where that audience already spends time and it will print money. Garage is opening 20 stores a year because every store is a harvest, not a 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-brand-2026-07-10t06-3\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-2026-07-10t06-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/garage-canadian-fashion-brand-2026-07-10t06-3",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Profitable retail expansion · Garage (Canadian Fashion Brand)\n\nCult fashion retailer opens 20 profitable stores yearly as Gen Z returns…\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/garage-canadian-fashion-brand-2026-07-10t06-3",
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      "title": "Cult fashion retailer opens 20 profitable stores yearly as Gen Z returns 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, the Canadian fashion brand, is opening 20 profitable stores per year, including locations in London and Manchester, as Gen Z drives a return to brick-and-mortar retail, per Glossy.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): profitable retail expansion means you are opening stores in places where the customer is already shopping, not where you hope they will be. Garage's 20-store-per-year velocity is not a growth metric — it is a proof of demand. They are not building out ahead of the trend; they are following the customer and confirming with a store. The play: test pop-ups in a mall or high-street zone for 4-6 weeks, measure foot traffic and conversion, then if the numbers hold, sign a lease. Do not build the flagship first. Build where the customer already congregates.\nWhat that means for you: Garage reminds us that retail is not dying — retail is just filtering down to the brands customers actually want to walk into. Most operators see 'Gen Z goes to malls' and think it means the death of DTC. It's the opposite. It means DTC brands that built an audience can now open a store where that audience already spends time and it will print money. Garage is opening 20 stores a year because every store is a harvest, not a 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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