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  "company": "Target",
  "headline": "Target's post-Ulta beauty section attracted new brands to retail for the first time",
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  "source_name": "Modern Retail",
  "source_url": "https://www.modernretail.co/operations/new-brands-flock-to-targets-post-ulta-beauty-section/",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · Category refresh as new-brand acquisition channel · Target\n\nTarget's post-Ulta beauty section attracted new brands to retail for the first time.\n\npitch retailers during category resets, not during normal operations. Modern Retail named this — Target's beauty section redesign drew new brands in because the buyer's mandate was to fill new shelf, not defend existing placements. If you make a beauty or personal-care product, call retail buyers during Q1 (spring reset), summer (vacation season fill), and back-to-school windows. These moments carry less vendor friction because the mandate is volume, not replacement. A pitch that lands on desk during steady-state gets a 'maybe in six months' response. The same pitch during a reset gets a 'send samples to the test kitchen this week' response.\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-2026-08-28t03-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/target-2026-08-28t03-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/target-2026-08-28t03-5",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · Category refresh as new-brand acquisition channel · Target\n\nTarget's post-Ulta beauty section attracted new brands to retail for the first time.\n\npitch retailers during category resets, not during normal operations. Modern Retail named this — Target's beauty section redesign drew new brands in because the buyer's mandate was to fill new shelf, not defend existing placements. If you make a beauty or personal-care product, call retail buyers during Q1 (spring reset), summer (vacation season fill), and back-to-school windows. These moments carry less vendor friction because the mandate is volume, not replacement. A pitch that lands on desk during steady-state gets a 'maybe in six months' response. The same pitch during a reset gets a 'send samples to the test kitchen this week' response.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/target-2026-08-28t03-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/target-2026-08-28t03-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/target-2026-08-28t03-5",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · Category refresh as new-brand acquisition channel · Target\n\nTarget's post-Ulta beauty section attracted new brands to retail for the first time.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/target-2026-08-28t03-5",
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      "title": "Target's post-Ulta beauty section attracted new brands to retail for the first time",
      "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's newly redesigned beauty section in stores and online has drawn many emerging brands to the retailer for their first entry into big-box retail, per Modern Retail.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): pitch retailers during category resets, not during normal operations. Modern Retail named this — Target's beauty section redesign drew new brands in because the buyer's mandate was to fill new shelf, not defend existing placements. If you make a beauty or personal-care product, call retail buyers during Q1 (spring reset), summer (vacation season fill), and back-to-school windows. These moments carry less vendor friction because the mandate is volume, not replacement. A pitch that lands on desk during steady-state gets a 'maybe in six months' response. The same pitch during a reset gets a 'send samples to the test kitchen this week' response.\nWhat that means for you: pitch retailers during category resets, not during normal operations. Modern Retail named this — Target's beauty section redesign drew new brands in because the buyer's mandate was to fill new shelf, not defend existing placements. If you make a beauty or personal-care product, call retail buyers during Q1 (spring reset), summer (vacation season fill), and back-to-school windows. These moments carry less vendor friction because the mandate is volume, not replacement. A pitch that lands on desk during steady-state gets a 'maybe in six months' response. The same pitch during a reset gets a 'send samples to the test kitchen this week' response.\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/operations/new-brands-flock-to-targets-post-ulta-beauty-section/.)\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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