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  "company": "Hollister",
  "headline": "Hollister acquired new customers through Target's floors, bypassing DTC costs.",
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  "source_name": "Glossy",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Wholesale distribution expansion · Hollister\n\nHollister acquired new customers through Target's floors, bypassing DTC costs.\n\nEvery DTC operator thinks wholesale is death — smaller margin, lost control, retailers take the margin. But Hollister just inverted it. They're using Target as a customer acquisition machine. The Target customer walks in for socks and sees Hollister. That's a lower CAC than Facebook ever was. The real move is: place one item in a target retailer, track how many become repeat DTC buyers, do the math. If it works, wholesale isn't a margin play — it's a funnel.\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-2026-09-12t15-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/hollister-2026-09-12t15-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/hollister-2026-09-12t15-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Wholesale distribution expansion · Hollister\n\nHollister acquired new customers through Target's floors, bypassing DTC costs.\n\nEvery DTC operator thinks wholesale is death — smaller margin, lost control, retailers take the margin. But Hollister just inverted it. They're using Target as a customer acquisition machine. The Target customer walks in for socks and sees Hollister. That's a lower CAC than Facebook ever was. The real move is: place one item in a target retailer, track how many become repeat DTC buyers, do the math. If it works, wholesale isn't a margin play — it's a funnel.\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-2026-09-12t15-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/hollister-2026-09-12t15-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/hollister-2026-09-12t15-1",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Wholesale distribution expansion · Hollister\n\nHollister acquired new customers through Target's floors, bypassing DTC costs.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/hollister-2026-09-12t15-1",
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      "title": "Hollister acquired new customers through Target's floors, bypassing DTC costs.",
      "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 👇\nGlossy reported Hollister is acquiring new customers via Target as it moves beyond apparel-only positioning into broader retail channels.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): stop thinking of wholesale as a margin trade. Wholesale is a customer acquisition channel. Hollister paid Target a lower margin on units to get in front of Target's daily foot traffic — the same people they would have spent $15-40 per customer to reach on TikTok or Google. If your DTC CAC is north of $25 and you're not in a retailer's door, you're overpaying. Place one SKU in five stores this quarter and track the repeat rate. You'll find the acquisition cost.\nWhat that means for you: Every DTC operator thinks wholesale is death — smaller margin, lost control, retailers take the margin. But Hollister just inverted it. They're using Target as a customer acquisition machine. The Target customer walks in for socks and sees Hollister. That's a lower CAC than Facebook ever was. The real move is: place one item in a target retailer, track how many become repeat DTC buyers, do the math. If it works, wholesale isn't a margin play — it's a funnel.\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: 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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