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  "company": "Toys'R'Us",
  "headline": "120 new standalone stores opening this holiday season across the U.S.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Aggressive retail expansion play · Toys'R'Us\n\n120 new standalone stores opening this holiday season across the U.S.\n\nToys'R'Us came back from almost nothing by renting temporary space and proved the brand still moves product. Now they're swinging hard into holiday with 120 locations. This is not 'retail is coming back'—this is 'seasonal retail works.' If you make anything people buy for others (gifts, seasonal goods, collectibles), the holiday sprint in a temp box beats a year-long lease with slow months. Find the high-traffic zone, lease for 6-8 weeks, staff it lean, and let the brand do the work.\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-2026-09-29t09-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/toysrus-2026-09-29t09-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/toysrus-2026-09-29t09-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Aggressive retail expansion play · Toys'R'Us\n\n120 new standalone stores opening this holiday season across the U.S.\n\nToys'R'Us came back from almost nothing by renting temporary space and proved the brand still moves product. Now they're swinging hard into holiday with 120 locations. This is not 'retail is coming back'—this is 'seasonal retail works.' If you make anything people buy for others (gifts, seasonal goods, collectibles), the holiday sprint in a temp box beats a year-long lease with slow months. Find the high-traffic zone, lease for 6-8 weeks, staff it lean, and let the brand do the work.\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-2026-09-29t09-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/toysrus-2026-09-29t09-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/toysrus-2026-09-29t09-2",
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      "title": "120 new standalone stores opening this holiday season across the U.S.",
      "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 store openings for the holiday season, per PR Newswire, reversing the brand's prior pullback from physical retail and signaling a renewed confidence in brick-and-mortar.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): brick-and-mortar isn't dead; seasonal density is. Toys'R'Us is not opening 120 flagship experiences—it's opening 120 boxes that work for the 6-week sprint. If you have a physical product with a clear seasonal spike (holiday, back-to-school, spring), talk to landlords about short-term or seasonal leases. A pop-up in Q4 converts faster than a year-round slow burn. Pre-test unit economics on a single location in November, then replicate the playbook in other high-traffic zones in December.\nWhat that means for you: Toys'R'Us came back from almost nothing by renting temporary space and proved the brand still moves product. Now they're swinging hard into holiday with 120 locations. This is not 'retail is coming back'—this is 'seasonal retail works.' If you make anything people buy for others (gifts, seasonal goods, collectibles), the holiday sprint in a temp box beats a year-long lease with slow months. Find the high-traffic zone, lease for 6-8 weeks, staff it lean, and let the brand do the work.\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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