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  "headline": "Bath & Body Works expanded partnership to all Ulta stores for the holidays.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ SILVER · Wholesale channel expansion · Bath & Body Works\n\nBath & Body Works expanded partnership to all Ulta stores for the holidays.\n\nThis is not a huge novelty—retail partnerships happen—but the scale and timing matter. Bath & Body Works went from 'hey, try us at Ulta' to full-chain holiday placement. That says Ulta saw strong early sell-through and moved fast to deepen. If you have a brand with a solid repeat rate, seasonal partnerships with non-competing retail chains can move volume fast without the lease, staffing, or inventory risk of a new store.\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-2026-10-18t21-4\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/bath-body-works-2026-10-18t21-4\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/bath-body-works-2026-10-18t21-4",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ SILVER · Wholesale channel expansion · Bath & Body Works\n\nBath & Body Works expanded partnership to all Ulta stores for the holidays.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/bath-body-works-2026-10-18t21-4",
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      "title": "Bath & Body Works expanded partnership to all Ulta stores for the holidays.",
      "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 expanded its Ulta partnership to all Ulta locations for the holiday season, per Retail Dive, broadening its in-store presence beyond its own doors.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): seasonal expansion with an existing retail partner costs less than a new location and reaches a different customer at checkout. The play: if you sell personal care, beauty, or home goods, identify one retail chain that skews toward your customer (not your category) and propose a limited, time-bound partnership for one season. Offer them a margin bump and a co-op budget for in-store signage. Start with one region or a subset of stores to prove the unit economics. If it works, expand to all doors for the next season.\nWhat that means for you: This is not a huge novelty—retail partnerships happen—but the scale and timing matter. Bath & Body Works went from 'hey, try us at Ulta' to full-chain holiday placement. That says Ulta saw strong early sell-through and moved fast to deepen. If you have a brand with a solid repeat rate, seasonal partnerships with non-competing retail chains can move volume fast without the lease, staffing, or inventory risk of a new store.\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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