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  "company": "Michaels",
  "headline": "Michaels tests store format focused on knit, sew, and party community at 3 locations.",
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  "source_name": "Retail Dive",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · Store format experimentation · Michaels\n\nMichaels tests store format focused on knit, sew, and party community at 3 locations.\n\nMichaels is tired of competing on breadth and price. Instead, they're testing depth and community. A 'knit and sew' store is smaller, easier to staff, and naturally high-traffic because the communities show up together. This works because knitting and sewing have social infrastructure built in — unlike 'general crafts.'\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-2026-08-15t18-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/michaels-2026-08-15t18-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/michaels-2026-08-15t18-5",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · Store format experimentation · Michaels\n\nMichaels tests store format focused on knit, sew, and party community at 3 locations.\n\nMichaels is tired of competing on breadth and price. Instead, they're testing depth and community. A 'knit and sew' store is smaller, easier to staff, and naturally high-traffic because the communities show up together. This works because knitting and sewing have social infrastructure built in — unlike 'general crafts.'\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/michaels-2026-08-15t18-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/michaels-2026-08-15t18-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/michaels-2026-08-15t18-5",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · Store format experimentation · Michaels\n\nMichaels tests store format focused on knit, sew, and party community at 3 locations.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/michaels-2026-08-15t18-5",
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      "title": "Michaels tests store format focused on knit, sew, and party community at 3 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 👇\nMichaels debuted a new store format at three locations centered on knitting, sewing, and party-planning, per Retail Dive.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): a community category (knitting, sewing, party planning) already has a built-in gather pattern — friends meet, plan together, buy together. By creating a store format around community-driven categories instead of shopper convenience, Michaels converts the store into a third place, not a warehouse. Test this in 3 locations first, measure repeat traffic and basket size, then expand the format to underperforming locations. A knitting circle will visit your store more often than a one-time crafter.\nWhat that means for you: Michaels is tired of competing on breadth and price. Instead, they're testing depth and community. A 'knit and sew' store is smaller, easier to staff, and naturally high-traffic because the communities show up together. This works because knitting and sewing have social infrastructure built in — unlike 'general crafts.'\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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