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  "company": "Ross",
  "headline": "Off-price retailer posts rising comp gains, now the category leader.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · Off-price store comps growth · Ross\n\nOff-price retailer posts rising comp gains, now the category leader.\n\nThe off-price channel is not the place brands send overstock anymore. It is the place they send inventory when they want it to move. Ross is winning because off-price consumers are low-price hunters, not brand loyalists. The speed of turnover is the edge. If you can commit inventory to an off-price buyer, you move volume and get paid on time. That is a more reliable path than waiting for a traditional retail slot.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/ross-2026-08-23t18-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/ross-2026-08-23t18-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/ross-2026-08-23t18-5",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · Off-price store comps growth · Ross\n\nOff-price retailer posts rising comp gains, now the category leader.\n\nThe off-price channel is not the place brands send overstock anymore. It is the place they send inventory when they want it to move. Ross is winning because off-price consumers are low-price hunters, not brand loyalists. The speed of turnover is the edge. If you can commit inventory to an off-price buyer, you move volume and get paid on time. That is a more reliable path than waiting for a traditional retail slot.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/ross-2026-08-23t18-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/ross-2026-08-23t18-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/ross-2026-08-23t18-5",
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      "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 👇\nRoss is outranking competitors in off-price retail with soaring store comps and earnings, per Retail Dive, repositioning off-price as the growth channel in a flatter retail landscape.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): off-price is not a clearance channel for overstock — it is a primary distribution channel now. If you have wholesale relationships, ask your off-price partners (TJ Maxx, Ross, Marshalls, Five Below) about their buyer lead times. Some of these chains will take full production runs at negotiated discounts if you commit inventory 12-16 weeks ahead. The trade-off is margin, but the upside is velocity and zero markdown risk. For emerging brands, off-price can be a primary path to scale distribution faster than traditional retail.\nWhat that means for you: The off-price channel is not the place brands send overstock anymore. It is the place they send inventory when they want it to move. Ross is winning because off-price consumers are low-price hunters, not brand loyalists. The speed of turnover is the edge. If you can commit inventory to an off-price buyer, you move volume and get paid on time. That is a more reliable path than waiting for a traditional retail slot.\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/off-price-ross-new-boss-soaring-store-comps-earnings/828457/.)\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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