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  "company": "Bath & Body Works",
  "headline": "Expanded to all Ulta locations for holidays, displacing shelf space rivals.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Retail distribution partnership expansion · Bath & Body Works\n\nExpanded to all Ulta locations for holidays, displacing shelf space rivals.\n\nThis is the unglamorous move every brand avoids — it feels small next to 'opening a flagship,' but it's the opposite. Bath & Body Works gets all the holiday traffic and none of the rent. Ulta gets a proven category-driver and a data feed on which SKUs move fastest in which regions. Both ship higher margins because the overhead is shared. Most operators still think physical means owning real estate; the real play is renting velocity inside someone else's traffic engine.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/bath-body-works-2026-10-17t00-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/bath-body-works-2026-10-17t00-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/bath-body-works-2026-10-17t00-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Retail distribution partnership expansion · Bath & Body Works\n\nExpanded to all Ulta locations for holidays, displacing shelf space rivals.\n\nThis is the unglamorous move every brand avoids — it feels small next to 'opening a flagship,' but it's the opposite. Bath & Body Works gets all the holiday traffic and none of the rent. Ulta gets a proven category-driver and a data feed on which SKUs move fastest in which regions. Both ship higher margins because the overhead is shared. Most operators still think physical means owning real estate; the real play is renting velocity inside someone else's traffic engine.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/bath-body-works-2026-10-17t00-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/bath-body-works-2026-10-17t00-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/bath-body-works-2026-10-17t00-1",
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      "title": "Expanded to all Ulta locations for holidays, displacing shelf space rivals.",
      "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 👇\nBath & Body Works extended its partnership with Ulta Beauty to all stores for the holiday season, per Retail Dive, scaling physical shelf presence across a national beauty chain.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): do not open a store; rent the shelf in a retailer whose customer already shops your category. Negotiate a holiday pop within an existing network, not a permanent location. Ulta's traffic engine becomes your sales floor. Measure attach rate and repeat for Q4 2027. The play: find a national retailer whose foot traffic and loyalty program overlap your buyer, then negotiate a limited-time expansion tied to a seasonal reset. Cost is lower than a single flagship; results are measurable in two months.\nWhat that means for you: This is the unglamorous move every brand avoids — it feels small next to 'opening a flagship,' but it's the opposite. Bath & Body Works gets all the holiday traffic and none of the rent. Ulta gets a proven category-driver and a data feed on which SKUs move fastest in which regions. Both ship higher margins because the overhead is shared. Most operators still think physical means owning real estate; the real play is renting velocity inside someone else's traffic engine.\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/bath-body-works-ulta-beauty-pink-suede/833214/.)\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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