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  "company": "Stripes Beauty",
  "headline": "Menopause care brand expands to 448 Ulta stores in six months.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Rapid retail scaling · Stripes Beauty\n\nMenopause care brand expands to 448 Ulta stores in six months.\n\nThis is the textbook move every emerging brand should study: nail the test, then go back and ask for the whole chain, not another small batch. Ulta saw menopause care was real, Stripes proved it sold, and suddenly 448 doors opened. The category wins the shelf space, the brand wins the placement. If you've got a founder story and a test that moves, you have the leverage to ask for big.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/stripes-beauty-2026-07-11t06-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/stripes-beauty-2026-07-11t06-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/stripes-beauty-2026-07-11t06-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Rapid retail scaling · Stripes Beauty\n\nMenopause care brand expands to 448 Ulta stores in six months.\n\nThis is the textbook move every emerging brand should study: nail the test, then go back and ask for the whole chain, not another small batch. Ulta saw menopause care was real, Stripes proved it sold, and suddenly 448 doors opened. The category wins the shelf space, the brand wins the placement. If you've got a founder story and a test that moves, you have the leverage to ask for big.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/stripes-beauty-2026-07-11t06-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/stripes-beauty-2026-07-11t06-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/stripes-beauty-2026-07-11t06-1",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Rapid retail scaling · Stripes Beauty\n\nMenopause care brand expands to 448 Ulta stores in six months.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/stripes-beauty-2026-07-11t06-1",
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      "title": "Menopause care brand expands to 448 Ulta stores in six months.",
      "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 👇\nStripes Beauty, founded by Naomi Watts, entered four Ulta Beauty locations and expanded to 448 stores within six months, per Glossy.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): when a category is new and underserved on shelves, a founder with outside credibility (actress, doctor, athlete, athlete) can walk into a buyer meeting and ask for test distribution across multiple doors at once, not one at a time. Stripes started small to prove sell-through, then used that proof to negotiate expansion into hundreds of doors in a single conversation. Run a small test, get the reorder data, then present the re-buy as a category play, not a brand play.\nWhat that means for you: This is the textbook move every emerging brand should study: nail the test, then go back and ask for the whole chain, not another small batch. Ulta saw menopause care was real, Stripes proved it sold, and suddenly 448 doors opened. The category wins the shelf space, the brand wins the placement. If you've got a founder story and a test that moves, you have the leverage to ask for big.\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 — Glossy: https://www.glossy.co/beauty/wellness/stripes-beauty-ulta-beauty-menopause-care-expansion/?utm_campaign=glossydis&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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