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  "slug": "drmelaxin-2026-07-01t03-1",
  "company": "Dr.Melaxin",
  "headline": "Korean skincare brand hit £19M on TikTok Shop, landed 196 Boots stores.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}",
  "source_name": "Retail Times",
  "source_url": "https://retailtimes.co.uk/dr-melaxin-expands-into-196-boots-stores-following-19m-tiktok-shop-uk-success/",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Social commerce to retail conversion · Dr.Melaxin\n\nKorean skincare brand hit £19M on TikTok Shop, landed 196 Boots stores.\n\nEvery founder I know has a spreadsheet of retail buyers they want to call. Dr.Melaxin called with a £19M receipt from TikTok Shop in their back pocket. That receipt is not a vanity metric—it is a contract with a universe of buyers. A chain like Boots doesn't give you 196 doors because your product is nice. They give it to you because your product moved money in a venue they can measure. The play is not to get on TikTok Shop and hope. It is to get on TikTok Shop, measure and document every pound that moves, and then hand that report to a physical chain as an argument to stock you.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/drmelaxin-2026-07-01t03-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/drmelaxin-2026-07-01t03-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/drmelaxin-2026-07-01t03-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Social commerce to retail conversion · Dr.Melaxin\n\nKorean skincare brand hit £19M on TikTok Shop, landed 196 Boots stores.\n\nEvery founder I know has a spreadsheet of retail buyers they want to call. Dr.Melaxin called with a £19M receipt from TikTok Shop in their back pocket. That receipt is not a vanity metric—it is a contract with a universe of buyers. A chain like Boots doesn't give you 196 doors because your product is nice. They give it to you because your product moved money in a venue they can measure. The play is not to get on TikTok Shop and hope. It is to get on TikTok Shop, measure and document every pound that moves, and then hand that report to a physical chain as an argument to stock you.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/drmelaxin-2026-07-01t03-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/drmelaxin-2026-07-01t03-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/drmelaxin-2026-07-01t03-1",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Social commerce to retail conversion · Dr.Melaxin\n\nKorean skincare brand hit £19M on TikTok Shop, landed 196 Boots stores.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/drmelaxin-2026-07-01t03-1",
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      "title": "Korean skincare brand hit £19M on TikTok Shop, landed 196 Boots stores.",
      "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 👇\nPer Retail Times, Dr.Melaxin launched in the UK via TikTok Shop, generated £19M in sales, and secured permanent placement across 196 Boots stores nationwide in less than one year.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): run your first sales engine on a social platform where the buyer already is, hit a verifiable number, then walk that number into a buyer at a physical chain and say 'these people exist and they buy.' You are not asking for shelf space on a hunch; you are asking for it on transaction data you created. The sequence is: platform → velocity → proof → retail conversation.\nWhat that means for you: Every founder I know has a spreadsheet of retail buyers they want to call. Dr.Melaxin called with a £19M receipt from TikTok Shop in their back pocket. That receipt is not a vanity metric—it is a contract with a universe of buyers. A chain like Boots doesn't give you 196 doors because your product is nice. They give it to you because your product moved money in a venue they can measure. The play is not to get on TikTok Shop and hope. It is to get on TikTok Shop, measure and document every pound that moves, and then hand that report to a physical chain as an argument to stock you.\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 Times: https://retailtimes.co.uk/dr-melaxin-expands-into-196-boots-stores-following-19m-tiktok-shop-uk-success/.)\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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