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  "company": "Joolies",
  "headline": "Date brand entering season with 50% more fruit amid retail expansion.",
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  "source_name": "Business Insider",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ GOLD · Supply-side scaling during retail growth · Joolies\n\nDate brand entering season with 50% more fruit amid retail expansion.\n\nThis is the unglamorous play that most founders skip. You do not need a PR firm to announce 50% more inventory — but it is the single most persuasive move you can make with a retailer. Most CPG brands pitch the product story; Joolies pitched the supply confidence. Retail buyers are scared of stockouts and chargebacks. Show them you've already solved that before you walk in the door.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/joolies-2026-09-02t06-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/joolies-2026-09-02t06-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/joolies-2026-09-02t06-3",
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      "title": "Date brand entering season with 50% more fruit amid retail expansion.",
      "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 👇\nJoolies, the California-based date brand, is entering the 2026-27 season with 50% more fruit available and reports continued retail and category growth, per Business Insider.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): the retailer's first question to any emerging brand is 'Can you fulfill consistently?' Most brands say yes and then panic when the order comes. Joolies answered before the question was asked by proving they had the supply locked in. This is a credibility play that moves faster than marketing spend. If you are in a seasonal or limited-supply category (produce, seafood, confection), commit to a supply target six months out and lead with that number in the pitch. It disarms the buyer.\nWhat that means for you: This is the unglamorous play that most founders skip. You do not need a PR firm to announce 50% more inventory — but it is the single most persuasive move you can make with a retailer. Most CPG brands pitch the product story; Joolies pitched the supply confidence. Retail buyers are scared of stockouts and chargebacks. Show them you've already solved that before you walk in the door.\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 — Business Insider: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/joolies-enters-2026-27-season-with-50-more-fruit-amid-continued-retail-and-category-growth-1036511596.)\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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