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  "headline": "Date producer scaled inventory by 50% entering 2026–27 season amid retail growth.",
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  "source_name": "Business Insider",
  "source_url": "https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/joolies-enters-2026-27-season-with-50-more-fruit-amid-continued-retail-and-category-growth-1036511596",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Retail expansion and category growth · Joolies\n\nDate producer scaled inventory by 50% entering 2026–27 season amid retail growth.\n\nproduce brands win on pre-season commitment, not reaction. Joolies locked inventory three months early, which forced retail partners to commit floor space and guaranteed supply for promotional windows. A small brand can run this by: (1) calling three retail accounts in September and saying 'I'm doubling production in Q1—how many cases can you move if I hold the price flat?', (2) getting verbal commitment in writing, (3) hitting that production number, and (4) shipping proof to other retailers as social proof ('Whole Foods moved 40 pallets in month one').\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-2026-09-03t03-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/joolies-2026-09-03t03-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/joolies-2026-09-03t03-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Retail expansion and category growth · Joolies\n\nDate producer scaled inventory by 50% entering 2026–27 season amid retail growth.\n\nproduce brands win on pre-season commitment, not reaction. Joolies locked inventory three months early, which forced retail partners to commit floor space and guaranteed supply for promotional windows. A small brand can run this by: (1) calling three retail accounts in September and saying 'I'm doubling production in Q1—how many cases can you move if I hold the price flat?', (2) getting verbal commitment in writing, (3) hitting that production number, and (4) shipping proof to other retailers as social proof ('Whole Foods moved 40 pallets in month one').\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/joolies-2026-09-03t03-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/joolies-2026-09-03t03-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/joolies-2026-09-03t03-1",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Retail expansion and category growth · Joolies\n\nDate producer scaled inventory by 50% entering 2026–27 season amid retail growth.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/joolies-2026-09-03t03-1",
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      "title": "Date producer scaled inventory by 50% entering 2026–27 season amid retail growth.",
      "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, a California date brand, entered the 2026–27 season with 50% more fruit in production, capitalizing on continued retail and category expansion, per Business Insider.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): produce brands win on pre-season commitment, not reaction. Joolies locked inventory three months early, which forced retail partners to commit floor space and guaranteed supply for promotional windows. A small brand can run this by: (1) calling three retail accounts in September and saying 'I'm doubling production in Q1—how many cases can you move if I hold the price flat?', (2) getting verbal commitment in writing, (3) hitting that production number, and (4) shipping proof to other retailers as social proof ('Whole Foods moved 40 pallets in month one').\nWhat that means for you: produce brands win on pre-season commitment, not reaction. Joolies locked inventory three months early, which forced retail partners to commit floor space and guaranteed supply for promotional windows. A small brand can run this by: (1) calling three retail accounts in September and saying 'I'm doubling production in Q1—how many cases can you move if I hold the price flat?', (2) getting verbal commitment in writing, (3) hitting that production number, and (4) shipping proof to other retailers as social proof ('Whole Foods moved 40 pallets in month one').\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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