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  "company": "Stripes Beauty",
  "headline": "Menopause-care brand expanded from 4 to 448 Ulta locations in six months.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Retail expansion from proof of concept · Stripes Beauty\n\nMenopause-care brand expanded from 4 to 448 Ulta locations in six months.\n\nMost brands try to convince Ulta that menopause care matters. Stripes Beauty let the four doors do that. The category is real, the customer is real, the numbers are real. Ulta saw a 112x expansion opportunity because the pilot worked. The move most operators get wrong: they ask for big before proving small. Start with a test that is small enough to run but big enough to matter.\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-2026-07-12t09-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/stripes-beauty-2026-07-12t09-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/stripes-beauty-2026-07-12t09-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Retail expansion from proof of concept · Stripes Beauty\n\nMenopause-care brand expanded from 4 to 448 Ulta locations in six months.\n\nMost brands try to convince Ulta that menopause care matters. Stripes Beauty let the four doors do that. The category is real, the customer is real, the numbers are real. Ulta saw a 112x expansion opportunity because the pilot worked. The move most operators get wrong: they ask for big before proving small. Start with a test that is small enough to run but big enough to matter.\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-2026-07-12t09-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/stripes-beauty-2026-07-12t09-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/stripes-beauty-2026-07-12t09-2",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Retail expansion from proof of concept · Stripes Beauty\n\nMenopause-care brand expanded from 4 to 448 Ulta locations in six months.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/stripes-beauty-2026-07-12t09-2",
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      "title": "Menopause-care brand expanded from 4 to 448 Ulta locations 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 👇\nPer Glossy, Stripes Beauty (the Naomi Watts-founded menopause care line) entered four Ulta Beauty stores as a test, then expanded to 448 locations within six months, marking the brand's first major brick-and-mortar footprint.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): the small pilot is not a soft opening; it is a negotiation tool. Enter with a category that has tailwinds (menopause care is mainstream now), ship the four-door test for a fixed period (8-12 weeks), document every metric Ulta cares about (velocity, margin, customer lifetime value), then present the expansion as risk-mitigation, not risk-taking. The retailer is not betting on a brand; she is betting on her own data.\nWhat that means for you: Most brands try to convince Ulta that menopause care matters. Stripes Beauty let the four doors do that. The category is real, the customer is real, the numbers are real. Ulta saw a 112x expansion opportunity because the pilot worked. The move most operators get wrong: they ask for big before proving small. Start with a test that is small enough to run but big enough to matter.\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/.)\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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