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  "company": "Joolies",
  "headline": "Date brand enters season with 50% more fruit amid retail growth.",
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  "source_name": "Business Insider Markets",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Inventory expansion · Joolies\n\nDate brand enters season with 50% more fruit amid retail growth.\n\nMost emerging brands pitch retail backwards. They ask for shelf space and then scramble to produce. Joolies flipped it — they grew the orchard first, then walked in with proof they could actually fill the order without blinking. That confidence moves buyers. The date category is not new, but Joolies made dates feel like a fresh category again. That only works if the supply line does not hiccup.\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-2026-09-09t09-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/joolies-2026-09-09t09-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/joolies-2026-09-09t09-1",
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      "title": "Date brand enters season with 50% more fruit 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, is entering the 2026–27 season with 50% increased fruit supply as retail and category demand accelerates, per Business Insider Markets.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): retailers say yes to new brands only when supply is certain and excess inventory is the seller's problem. A 50% fruit increase is not a production flex — it is a written contract with Target, Whole Foods, or Kroger that says 'we own the upside and the downside.' Before you pitch wholesale, lock production. The order comes after the inventory promise, not before.\nWhat that means for you: Most emerging brands pitch retail backwards. They ask for shelf space and then scramble to produce. Joolies flipped it — they grew the orchard first, then walked in with proof they could actually fill the order without blinking. That confidence moves buyers. The date category is not new, but Joolies made dates feel like a fresh category again. That only works if the supply line does not hiccup.\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 Markets: 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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