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  "company": "Reformation",
  "headline": "Active customers grew 23% in first public earnings, per Modern Retail.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · DTC retention and customer base expansion · Reformation\n\nActive customers grew 23% in first public earnings, per Modern Retail.\n\nThis is the earnings move nobody sees coming because Wall Street is trained to want growth-at-all-costs. Reformation walked the other way and the stock spoke. For a DTC brand at any size, this is permission to stop chasing CAC and start measuring active-customer retention like it's the only thing that matters—because it is. The indie brand that loses a 30% repeat cohort and replaces it with cold traffic dies slowly. This one didn't.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/reformation-2026-09-14t03-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/reformation-2026-09-14t03-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/reformation-2026-09-14t03-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · DTC retention and customer base expansion · Reformation\n\nActive customers grew 23% in first public earnings, per Modern Retail.\n\nThis is the earnings move nobody sees coming because Wall Street is trained to want growth-at-all-costs. Reformation walked the other way and the stock spoke. For a DTC brand at any size, this is permission to stop chasing CAC and start measuring active-customer retention like it's the only thing that matters—because it is. The indie brand that loses a 30% repeat cohort and replaces it with cold traffic dies slowly. This one didn't.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/reformation-2026-09-14t03-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/reformation-2026-09-14t03-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/reformation-2026-09-14t03-1",
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      "title": "Active customers grew 23% in first public earnings, per Modern 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 👇\nReformation reported a 23% increase in active customers in its inaugural earnings report, demonstrating sustained engagement and repeat purchase behavior in the apparel space.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): active-customer growth (not GMV, not SKU count) is the metric that survives a downturn. Reformation proved a private-label apparel brand can grow its installed base without diluting margin. Run this play: audit your repeat-rate cohort by acquisition month, then tier your email and SMS by repeat frequency. Cap product drops at 70% of last season's demand and watch repeat orders climb because scarcity drives return visitors. The number becomes your north star, not top-line revenue.\nWhat that means for you: This is the earnings move nobody sees coming because Wall Street is trained to want growth-at-all-costs. Reformation walked the other way and the stock spoke. For a DTC brand at any size, this is permission to stop chasing CAC and start measuring active-customer retention like it's the only thing that matters—because it is. The indie brand that loses a 30% repeat cohort and replaces it with cold traffic dies slowly. This one didn't.\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 — Modern Retail: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiswFBVV95cUxPMG5DZ3VMN1E1Z2hTdXNSUFl5LW8yc3kzZ0d1N3ZoRGpJby0yWDQtc1NNYTE4cE1FT2k2R1o5RkJtTndmSmptbFRLU3poWUZzWFZrVWhwQlpaVG1zMW44RDJvMng0T3JMcXgya3gwTVlJUmQ0NUZsN0dlOHU5ZnlNRkF0Ri1lZHdsT1FXX1hNYkU1aEUzcGo2Vjh3WHRhcEdoaUdPVUhYZlFWMi1pN2EwS3hoRQ?oc=5.)\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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