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  "company": "PacSun and Ulta Beauty",
  "headline": "Fashion and beauty retailers co-curate category to drive cross-category traffic.",
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  "source_name": "Retail Dive",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Bundling Play}\n◆ SILVER · Retail partnership and curation · PacSun and Ulta Beauty\n\nFashion and beauty retailers co-curate category to drive cross-category traffic.\n\nThis is smart because it acknowledges that most retail traffic is lazy. A customer in PacSun is there for clothes. They will not seek out the beauty section. But if the beauty section comes to them — if they see the exact mascara or lip tint that matches the vibe of the outfit they are holding — the attachment goes up. The move is to ask: what does my customer need to complete their purchase? Then bring that category to them instead of asking them to find it.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/pacsun-and-ulta-beauty-2026-07-27t18-4\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/pacsun-and-ulta-beauty-2026-07-27t18-4\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/pacsun-and-ulta-beauty-2026-07-27t18-4",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Bundling Play}\n◆ SILVER · Retail partnership and curation · PacSun and Ulta Beauty\n\nFashion and beauty retailers co-curate category to drive cross-category traffic.\n\nThis is smart because it acknowledges that most retail traffic is lazy. A customer in PacSun is there for clothes. They will not seek out the beauty section. But if the beauty section comes to them — if they see the exact mascara or lip tint that matches the vibe of the outfit they are holding — the attachment goes up. The move is to ask: what does my customer need to complete their purchase? Then bring that category to them instead of asking them to find it.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/pacsun-and-ulta-beauty-2026-07-27t18-4\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/pacsun-and-ulta-beauty-2026-07-27t18-4\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/pacsun-and-ulta-beauty-2026-07-27t18-4",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Bundling Play}\n◆ SILVER · Retail partnership and curation · PacSun and Ulta Beauty\n\nFashion and beauty retailers co-curate category to drive cross-category traffic.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/pacsun-and-ulta-beauty-2026-07-27t18-4",
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      "title": "Fashion and beauty retailers co-curate category to drive cross-category traffic.",
      "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 👇\nPacSun and Ulta Beauty debuted a curated beauty-fashion collaboration, bringing prestige beauty into a youth-focused fashion retailer, per Retail Dive.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): most retail partnerships fail because they treat adjacency as a head-count play — bring more shoppers to more SKUs. This one works because it curates instead of expands. A PacSun shopper now sees 40 beauty items that match the outfit they just picked, not a 500-item beauty section. The play: identify one adjacent category that completes your core product. Approach a partner with authority in that category. Propose a curated selection — 30–50 items max — that you co-market to your audience. Measure attachment rate. If high, expand or move deeper into bundles.\nWhat that means for you: This is smart because it acknowledges that most retail traffic is lazy. A customer in PacSun is there for clothes. They will not seek out the beauty section. But if the beauty section comes to them — if they see the exact mascara or lip tint that matches the vibe of the outfit they are holding — the attachment goes up. The move is to ask: what does my customer need to complete their purchase? Then bring that category to them instead of asking them to find it.\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 — Retail Dive: https://www.retaildive.com/news/pacsun-ulta-beauty-curated-beauty-fashion-collaboration/826239/.)\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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