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  "company": "Hollister",
  "headline": "Acquired new customers through Target, shifted beyond apparel-only.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Retail partnership for customer acquisition · Hollister\n\nAcquired new customers through Target, shifted beyond apparel-only.\n\nHollister gets it: retail is not the enemy of direct—it's the farm that feeds it. They're not trying to sell their whole business through Target. They're using Target to find new people, then pulling them back to owned channels. Apparel is crowded on that shelf. Non-apparel stands out and gives the brand permission to own new occasions. Same playbook for any brand: find a retail partner with traffic you don't have, lead with a weird angle, then own the follow-up.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/hollister-2026-09-06t18-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/hollister-2026-09-06t18-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/hollister-2026-09-06t18-3",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Retail partnership for customer acquisition · Hollister\n\nAcquired new customers through Target, shifted beyond apparel-only.\n\nHollister gets it: retail is not the enemy of direct—it's the farm that feeds it. They're not trying to sell their whole business through Target. They're using Target to find new people, then pulling them back to owned channels. Apparel is crowded on that shelf. Non-apparel stands out and gives the brand permission to own new occasions. Same playbook for any brand: find a retail partner with traffic you don't have, lead with a weird angle, then own the follow-up.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/hollister-2026-09-06t18-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/hollister-2026-09-06t18-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/hollister-2026-09-06t18-3",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Retail partnership for customer acquisition · Hollister\n\nAcquired new customers through Target, shifted beyond apparel-only.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/hollister-2026-09-06t18-3",
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      "title": "Acquired new customers through Target, shifted beyond apparel-only.",
      "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 👇\nHollister is using Target as a distribution and customer acquisition channel, expanding product scope beyond traditional apparel, per glossy.co.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): do not think of retail as a channel that competes with DTC. Think of it as a customer acquisition machine you don't have to build yourself. Target moves 150M+ shoppers a week. If 2-3% discover your brand on Target shelf and 1% of those convert to a DTC repeat purchase, you've acquired a customer for far less than Facebook. Expand category (add non-apparel items) to widen the appeal surface. The retail item doesn't have to be your highest-margin SKU—it's a sample. Run this: negotiate shelf space for a lower-margin item that has high trial velocity, then retarget those buyers on email.\nWhat that means for you: Hollister gets it: retail is not the enemy of direct—it's the farm that feeds it. They're not trying to sell their whole business through Target. They're using Target to find new people, then pulling them back to owned channels. Apparel is crowded on that shelf. Non-apparel stands out and gives the brand permission to own new occasions. Same playbook for any brand: find a retail partner with traffic you don't have, lead with a weird angle, then own the follow-up.\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 — glossy.co: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiggFBVV95cUxQTFNvOWI0U3VlbG9YR1NFa0JwTVBEcGgyQ3hnM0Z2NnZGOThkVTZkUGRFdkhpVzNzUE1PZzdhaVBnUTFkM2lWM3VRWFJhM3MyTldDRXBGUEMwYlJpYlp3MWg4TkpNRzRGSEZSNmRhclpOYWJEaXZVNUluY21GLUdnZ01R?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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