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Discount Tire sits at 0.76 in Aéropostale's top 10 — an automotive parts-and-accessories retailer sharing audience shape with a teen apparel brand, and a signal of just how wide this neighbor set runs.
The shape here is broad: all ten neighbors score between 0.76 and 0.90, with no single entity pulling far ahead of the rest. Journeys leads at 0.90, followed by LIDS (0.85) and Stanton Optical (0.84) — three apparel-adjacent mall staples that form the closest cluster. Champs Sports (0.83) and Hollister (0.82) extend that mall-retail core. But the set doesn't stay there. Raising Cane's (0.81) is a casual dining chain; Macy's Backstage (0.79) is a department store off-price outlet; The Children's Place (0.78) is children's apparel; H&M (Hennes & Mauritz) (0.77) is general apparel; and Discount Tire (0.76) rounds out the ten. Only two neighbors — Hollister and H&M — share Aéropostale's own subcategory (General apparel). The rest span footwear, accessories, eyewear, sporting goods, casual dining, department stores, children's apparel, and automotive parts: eight distinct subcategories across five different categories.
That spread is the defining structural fact: this audience's shape is not anchored to a single retail type or even to apparel broadly, but distributed across the kind of mixed-category footprint associated with high-traffic physical retail environments.
