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  "company": "Hershey",
  "headline": "AI tool strategizes s'mores season inventory and co-brand placement.",
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  "source_name": "Modern Retail",
  "source_url": "https://www.modernretail.co/marketing/hershey-starts-using-ai-to-strategize-for-smores-season/?utm_campaign=modernretaildis&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=general-rss",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ STEEL · Seasonal AI forecasting · Hershey\n\nAI tool strategizes s'mores season inventory and co-brand placement.\n\nif you sell a seasonal physical product (holiday decor, summer gear, beach items), do not stock on intuition or last year's numbers. Use AI forecasting tools (or hire a data analyst to run the model) to predict demand by location and week. Then allocate inventory and negotiate shelf placement based on the forecast, not the gut. In Hershey's case, the AI predicted that s'mores demand peaks the third week of July and August, so Hershey negotiates premium shelf position and co-display rights during those specific windows, not all year. You move from 'we need marshmallows in stock' to 'we need marshmallows at the end-cap in zone 3, July 18-31, with chocolate stacked below.'\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/hershey-2026-08-24t15-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/hershey-2026-08-24t15-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/hershey-2026-08-24t15-5",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ STEEL · Seasonal AI forecasting · Hershey\n\nAI tool strategizes s'mores season inventory and co-brand placement.\n\nif you sell a seasonal physical product (holiday decor, summer gear, beach items), do not stock on intuition or last year's numbers. Use AI forecasting tools (or hire a data analyst to run the model) to predict demand by location and week. Then allocate inventory and negotiate shelf placement based on the forecast, not the gut. In Hershey's case, the AI predicted that s'mores demand peaks the third week of July and August, so Hershey negotiates premium shelf position and co-display rights during those specific windows, not all year. You move from 'we need marshmallows in stock' to 'we need marshmallows at the end-cap in zone 3, July 18-31, with chocolate stacked below.'\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/hershey-2026-08-24t15-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/hershey-2026-08-24t15-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/hershey-2026-08-24t15-5",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ STEEL · Seasonal AI forecasting · Hershey\n\nAI tool strategizes s'mores season inventory and co-brand placement.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/hershey-2026-08-24t15-5",
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      "title": "AI tool strategizes s'mores season inventory and co-brand placement.",
      "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 👇\nThe Hershey Company deployed AI tools to maximize sales performance of s'mores ingredients in stores, including its own chocolates and marshmallow co-brands, per Modern Retail.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if you sell a seasonal physical product (holiday decor, summer gear, beach items), do not stock on intuition or last year's numbers. Use AI forecasting tools (or hire a data analyst to run the model) to predict demand by location and week. Then allocate inventory and negotiate shelf placement based on the forecast, not the gut. In Hershey's case, the AI predicted that s'mores demand peaks the third week of July and August, so Hershey negotiates premium shelf position and co-display rights during those specific windows, not all year. You move from 'we need marshmallows in stock' to 'we need marshmallows at the end-cap in zone 3, July 18-31, with chocolate stacked below.'\nWhat that means for you: if you sell a seasonal physical product (holiday decor, summer gear, beach items), do not stock on intuition or last year's numbers. Use AI forecasting tools (or hire a data analyst to run the model) to predict demand by location and week. Then allocate inventory and negotiate shelf placement based on the forecast, not the gut. In Hershey's case, the AI predicted that s'mores demand peaks the third week of July and August, so Hershey negotiates premium shelf position and co-display rights during those specific windows, not all year. You move from 'we need marshmallows in stock' to 'we need marshmallows at the end-cap in zone 3, July 18-31, with chocolate stacked below.'\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 — Modern Retail: https://www.modernretail.co/marketing/hershey-starts-using-ai-to-strategize-for-smores-season/?utm_campaign=modernretaildis&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=general-rss.)\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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