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  "company": "Garage (Canadian fashion brand)",
  "headline": "Fashion brand opens 20 profitable stores annually as Gen Z returns to retail.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Consistent retail expansion · Garage (Canadian fashion brand)\n\nFashion brand opens 20 profitable stores annually as Gen Z returns to retail.\n\nTwenty stores a year that are each profitable is a different game than a chain opening 100 locations and hoping 40 will survive. Garage is methodical about real estate the way a founder should be about wholesale — prove it works, then replicate. Gen Z going back to the mall is the tailwind, but the discipline is the engine.\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-2026-07-11t06-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/garage-canadian-fashion-brand-2026-07-11t06-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/garage-canadian-fashion-brand-2026-07-11t06-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Consistent retail expansion · Garage (Canadian fashion brand)\n\nFashion brand opens 20 profitable stores annually as Gen Z returns to retail.\n\nTwenty stores a year that are each profitable is a different game than a chain opening 100 locations and hoping 40 will survive. Garage is methodical about real estate the way a founder should be about wholesale — prove it works, then replicate. Gen Z going back to the mall is the tailwind, but the discipline is the engine.\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-2026-07-11t06-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/garage-canadian-fashion-brand-2026-07-11t06-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/garage-canadian-fashion-brand-2026-07-11t06-2",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Consistent retail expansion · Garage (Canadian fashion brand)\n\nFashion brand opens 20 profitable stores annually as Gen Z returns…\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/garage-canadian-fashion-brand-2026-07-11t06-2",
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      "title": "Fashion brand opens 20 profitable stores annually as Gen Z returns to retail.",
      "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, has opened 20 profitable stores per year and recently entered London and Manchester, per Glossy.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): profitable unit economics means you are not opening stores to hit a headcount target or appease a board — you are opening stores because the math works. This reverses the typical DTC-to-retail pipeline: instead of selling online first and then begging for shelf space, Garage proves the store is profitable before it exists. For a physical-product founder, the lesson is to calculate the store unit economics before you lease the space — rent, labor, inventory turns, average transaction. If the math does not work, do not open the store. When it does, you have the proof to open the next one with confidence.\nWhat that means for you: Twenty stores a year that are each profitable is a different game than a chain opening 100 locations and hoping 40 will survive. Garage is methodical about real estate the way a founder should be about wholesale — prove it works, then replicate. Gen Z going back to the mall is the tailwind, but the discipline is the engine.\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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