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Two distinct audience neighborhoods pull on Hollister's shape: a retail-apparel cluster anchored by Victoria's Secret (0.90) and a sporting-goods lane anchored by Champs Sports (0.87), with neither fully absorbing the other.
The shape is classified as two-peak, and the scores bear that out. Victoria's Secret at 0.90 is the single strongest neighbor, followed closely by Champs Sports at 0.87 and Journeys at 0.86 — the latter a footwear retailer that sits between the two poles. H&M (Hennes & Mauritz) (0.84) and Carter's (0.84) round out the top five, both in the Apparel category — H&M in General, Carter's in Children's Apparel. That children's apparel presence is notable: OshKosh B'gosh also appears later in the full neighbor set, reinforcing a family-shopping thread running alongside the teen-retail core. Of the top 10 neighbors, six carry Apparel subcategories (Women's Apparel, Footwear ×2, General ×2, Children's Apparel), one is Sporting Goods retail, one is Electronics retail (Best Buy, 0.81), one is Jewelry and Accessories (LIDS, 0.81), and one is Hobbies Gifts and Crafts (Build A Bear Workshop, 0.81). The cross-kind entries — Best Buy and Build A Bear — signal that the audience's shape is defined less by fashion affinity alone and more by a mall-going, family-and-teen consumption pattern that spans categories.
The two-peak structure reveals an audience that bridges women's and accessories retail on one side and active-lifestyle sporting goods on the other, held together by a shared mall-retail behavioral profile.
