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  "company": "Michaels",
  "headline": "Michaels opens 3 new store formats as craft retail experiments with experiential footprint.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PAPER · Retail format experimentation · Michaels\n\nMichaels opens 3 new store formats as craft retail experiments with experiential footprint.\n\nMichaels is testing 3 new store formats. That means they're looking for brands that can fill those spaces with actual traffic and events. If you're in craft or DIY, this is a first-mover window to pitch a permanent partnership before they figure out what actually works.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/michaels-2026-08-15t06-7\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/michaels-2026-08-15t06-7\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/michaels-2026-08-15t06-7",
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      "title": "Michaels opens 3 new store formats as craft retail experiments with experiential footprint.",
      "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 Retail Dive, Michaels debuted a new store format at 3 locations, testing a revised experience positioning around knit, sew, and party activities.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if you sell DIY, craft, or hands-on goods, contact Michaels' regional operations and pitch a co-hosted in-store workshop series. Position it as their content. You provide the instructor or the pre-made kit; they provide the in-store stage. Your product becomes the outcome of the workshop. This works best if your product requires a learning curve or a community moment (sewing notions, painting supplies, jewelry kits). You don't pay for the booth — you provide the experience.\nWhat that means for you: Michaels is testing 3 new store formats. That means they're looking for brands that can fill those spaces with actual traffic and events. If you're in craft or DIY, this is a first-mover window to pitch a permanent partnership before they figure out what actually works.\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 — Retail Dive: https://www.retaildive.com/news/michaels-debuts-store-format-knit-sew-party-shops/827904/.)\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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