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  "company": "Michaels",
  "headline": "Fabric now stocked in 90% of stores after Joann bankruptcy.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · Category consolidation via shelf space · Michaels\n\nFabric now stocked in 90% of stores after Joann bankruptcy.\n\nBankruptcy is brutal for the losing brand but clarifying for the market. Michaels didn't invent a new product — it just realized it was leaving money on the table by not stocking a category their customers already wanted. The lesson for brands: if your competitor exits, you have maybe 90 days to grab their shelf space and their customer base before the buyer moves on to the next thing. Move fast.\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-2026-09-12t12-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/michaels-2026-09-12t12-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/michaels-2026-09-12t12-5",
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      "title": "Fabric now stocked in 90% of stores after Joann bankruptcy.",
      "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 expanded fabric offerings to 90% of its store footprint following Joann's bankruptcy, per Retail Dive, capturing an entire category that was previously split.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): when a category leader exits retail, there's a 60–90 day window where their suppliers are scrambling for distribution and their customers are looking for alternatives. If you're a brand in that category, contact every surviving retailer's buyer in the next 30 days with 'Joann is gone; here's how we fill that shelf and recover that traffic.' The retailer is not looking for a new brand — it's looking for continuity. Bring data showing you can service the customers they just inherited.\nWhat that means for you: Bankruptcy is brutal for the losing brand but clarifying for the market. Michaels didn't invent a new product — it just realized it was leaving money on the table by not stocking a category their customers already wanted. The lesson for brands: if your competitor exits, you have maybe 90 days to grab their shelf space and their customer base before the buyer moves on to the next thing. Move fast.\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-fabric-ninety-percent-stores-joann-bankruptcy/830039/.)\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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