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  "company": "Toys\"R\"Us",
  "headline": "Toy retailer opens 120 new stores in single holiday push, per PR Newswire.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Physical retail expansion · Toys\"R\"Us\n\nToy retailer opens 120 new stores in single holiday push, per PR Newswire.\n\nThis is the opposite of every DTC founder's instinct. We spend months optimizing the website; Toys\"R\"Us is printing real estate. They're betting that a parent walking into a store in November will buy more than a parent scrolling Instagram in September. The data backs them: holiday traffic spikes in November. Open before it peaks. Most of us are planning summer branded objects buys in July. Move the calendar back six weeks and you'll catch the actual buyer.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/toysrus-2026-09-20t15-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/toysrus-2026-09-20t15-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/toysrus-2026-09-20t15-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Physical retail expansion · Toys\"R\"Us\n\nToy retailer opens 120 new stores in single holiday push, per PR Newswire.\n\nThis is the opposite of every DTC founder's instinct. We spend months optimizing the website; Toys\"R\"Us is printing real estate. They're betting that a parent walking into a store in November will buy more than a parent scrolling Instagram in September. The data backs them: holiday traffic spikes in November. Open before it peaks. Most of us are planning summer branded objects buys in July. Move the calendar back six weeks and you'll catch the actual buyer.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/toysrus-2026-09-20t15-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/toysrus-2026-09-20t15-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/toysrus-2026-09-20t15-1",
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      "title": "Toy retailer opens 120 new stores in single holiday push, per PR Newswire.",
      "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 👇\nToys\"R\"Us announced 120 new standalone stores opening during the holiday season, marking a major return to brick-and-mortar after its 2017 bankruptcy.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): open the door four weeks before peak season ends, not after. A store opening in October catches November and December traffic; one opening in January catches nothing. Seasonal businesses should front-load retail openings to overlap with buying season, not chase it. If you sell seasonally, your expansion calendar should be built backward from peak sell-through, not from logistics comfort.\nWhat that means for you: This is the opposite of every DTC founder's instinct. We spend months optimizing the website; Toys\"R\"Us is printing real estate. They're betting that a parent walking into a store in November will buy more than a parent scrolling Instagram in September. The data backs them: holiday traffic spikes in November. Open before it peaks. Most of us are planning summer branded objects buys in July. Move the calendar back six weeks and you'll catch the actual buyer.\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 — PR Newswire: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi5gFBVV95cUxQUEJQQkJiTXIxTlBOUlVaS0JDRkFZV1JVN210TzlsOFhSYjlrRGxoUWpleHZVV0FUXy1kdl84dmJReDFyU2RpZG8yTkJGQ2loUXREczB5amtlNWNFRV9WZVR1cWlPZzRMdDVQMy1jRlVoaGk5eGtFQ1ZqWmJ3eVpYMFR6ckJ2ekVfY3NJb0t0dFFaN2ZQLTBMUF9IUV9DMmlZckJqM2VMdVVubkRnV3hVLU9FRmFFYTFuWXkxUC1LT19qU0ozaV9pSXoxME1FYk9udldEandER3NuQWgzcTBoYzFmM050Zw?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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