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  "headline": "Target's food unit generated $9 billion in growth; emerging brands now enter via grocery",
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  "source_url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewwatman/2026/08/24/target-is-leaning-into-food-and-beverage-giving-emerging-brands-a-retail-platform-like-never-before/",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Retail platform expansion into adjacent categories · Target\n\nTarget's food unit generated $9 billion in growth; emerging brands now enter via grocery.\n\nTarget is not just a department store anymore — it's a retail distributor actively scouting for emerging F&B brands to fill the grocery section. If you make a physical food product and have not pitched Target's emerging-brand buyer, the window is open now. Do not pitch shelf first — pitch test: offer a limited SKU in select stores, run your own promotion, and supply the data. Target buys proof, not pitch decks. Brands that show velocity on test shelves get bigger orders faster than brands that lead with wholesale terms.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/target-2026-08-28t03-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/target-2026-08-28t03-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/target-2026-08-28t03-2",
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      "title": "Target's food unit generated $9 billion in growth; emerging brands now enter via grocery",
      "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 👇\nTarget has aggressively expanded its Food & Beverage sector, generating $9 billion in growth, per Forbes, and is now positioning itself as a primary retail platform for emerging food and wellness brands.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): Target is not just a department store anymore — it's a retail distributor actively scouting for emerging F&B brands to fill the grocery section. If you make a physical food product and have not pitched Target's emerging-brand buyer, the window is open now. Do not pitch shelf first — pitch test: offer a limited SKU in select stores, run your own promotion, and supply the data. Target buys proof, not pitch decks. Brands that show velocity on test shelves get bigger orders faster than brands that lead with wholesale terms.\nWhat that means for you: Target is not just a department store anymore — it's a retail distributor actively scouting for emerging F&B brands to fill the grocery section. If you make a physical food product and have not pitched Target's emerging-brand buyer, the window is open now. Do not pitch shelf first — pitch test: offer a limited SKU in select stores, run your own promotion, and supply the data. Target buys proof, not pitch decks. Brands that show velocity on test shelves get bigger orders faster than brands that lead with wholesale terms.\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 — Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewwatman/2026/08/24/target-is-leaning-into-food-and-beverage-giving-emerging-brands-a-retail-platform-like-never-before/.)\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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