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  "company": "Once Upon a Farm",
  "headline": "Baby aisle brand disrupts shelf with cooler-based distribution model.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Packaging Play}\n◆ STEEL · Packaging and placement innovation · Once Upon a Farm\n\nBaby aisle brand disrupts shelf with cooler-based distribution model.\n\nMost brands want shelf. Once Upon a Farm wanted a different shelf altogether. That's the move—stop asking for inventory space and ask to solve a category problem. A cooler is expensive, but it's also a permanent fixture that ties the brand to the asset. Retail won't remove a cooler once it's installed; the brand becomes load-bearing infrastructure.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/once-upon-a-farm-2026-08-09t21-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/once-upon-a-farm-2026-08-09t21-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/once-upon-a-farm-2026-08-09t21-5",
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      "title": "Baby aisle brand disrupts shelf with cooler-based distribution model.",
      "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 👇\nPer Modern Retail, Once Upon a Farm CMO Katie Marston discussed how the baby-food brand deployed coolers in traditional retail to change the way the category sits on shelf.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): a refrigerated cooler is a negotiable asset—retail gets a new tool for category presentation, and the brand gets prime real estate outside the traditional frozen or shelf-stable ghetto. The mechanism is solving retail's problem first (how to better present baby food) before asking retail to stock you. Research your category's pain point in retail (is it space? freshness? turn? visibility?) and design a shelf solution that fixes it. The retailer will fight less hard on price when you've solved their stocking problem.\nWhat that means for you: Most brands want shelf. Once Upon a Farm wanted a different shelf altogether. That's the move—stop asking for inventory space and ask to solve a category problem. A cooler is expensive, but it's also a permanent fixture that ties the brand to the asset. Retail won't remove a cooler once it's installed; the brand becomes load-bearing infrastructure.\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 — Modern Retail: https://www.modernretail.co/podcasts/how-once-upon-a-farm-is-shaking-up-the-baby-aisle-with-coolers/?utm_campaign=modernretaildis&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=general-rss.)\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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