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  "company": "Coterie",
  "headline": "DTC babycare brand enters retail wholesale with new executive leadership.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}",
  "source_name": "Ad Age",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · DTC-to-retail transition · Coterie\n\nDTC babycare brand enters retail wholesale with new executive leadership.\n\nMost DTC brands are terrified of retail because they think wholesale eats margin. Coterie is proving the opposite: retail is where you scale past the DTC ceiling. DTC gets you to five million in ARR. Retail gets you to fifty. If you're maxing out your email list and paid ads, retail is the next lever.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/coterie-2026-09-17t09-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/coterie-2026-09-17t09-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/coterie-2026-09-17t09-5",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · DTC-to-retail transition · Coterie\n\nDTC babycare brand enters retail wholesale with new executive leadership.\n\nMost DTC brands are terrified of retail because they think wholesale eats margin. Coterie is proving the opposite: retail is where you scale past the DTC ceiling. DTC gets you to five million in ARR. Retail gets you to fifty. If you're maxing out your email list and paid ads, retail is the next lever.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/coterie-2026-09-17t09-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/coterie-2026-09-17t09-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/coterie-2026-09-17t09-5",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · DTC-to-retail transition · Coterie\n\nDTC babycare brand enters retail wholesale with new executive leadership.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/coterie-2026-09-17t09-5",
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      "title": "DTC babycare brand enters retail wholesale with new executive leadership.",
      "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 👇\nCoterie, a DTC babycare brand, brought in a retail-focused executive to scale wholesale distribution, per Ad Age.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): Coterie's move is not expansion—it's de-risking. The brand has a playbook that works on owned channels; now it's applying that playbook to third-party retail. The play: if you are a DTC brand with 12+ months of traction, start cold-calling regional retailers (natural food chains, independent baby stores, specialty grocers) with a simple deck: your repeat rate, your average order value, and your current monthly revenue. Show them you can deliver product on time and at margin. One regional chain stocking your product often leads to category managers at larger chains noticing. Retail does not move on pitch decks—it moves on proof of sell-through.\nWhat that means for you: Most DTC brands are terrified of retail because they think wholesale eats margin. Coterie is proving the opposite: retail is where you scale past the DTC ceiling. DTC gets you to five million in ARR. Retail gets you to fifty. If you're maxing out your email list and paid ads, retail is the next lever.\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 — Ad Age: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMihwFBVV95cUxQV3E0LTEtMmtYZU5EZjFYNFRJTlN0WGtCUFRZWUVuUm1NVmFiS1Y1elJteEFkRmNHRGVEU0YyZmlpb3IzRUpScE1TRUdIQ0t1eVFaTEZrXzkxamw3clM0d2VhRHRBdmdwU010ZnhJRHk5NFhSY0NGOTVKZm56V2hJWlZ1X0pweDA?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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