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  "company": "This Girl Walks Into a Bar",
  "headline": "Female-founded cocktail mixer selected from 400 applicants for national retail expansion.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}",
  "source_name": "Knox News (Press Release)",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Retail competition win · This Girl Walks Into a Bar\n\nFemale-founded cocktail mixer selected from 400 applicants for national retail expansion.\n\nenter founder-led retail competitions and accelerators before cold-calling buyers. This Girl Walks won shelf space through structured competition, not email outreach. The retailers staffing these conferences are looking to fill categories with emerging founders; you eliminate the gatekeeper by being in the room where selection happens. Apply to every 2026 Nourishing Change, Summer Fancy Food Show, and CPG pitch competition—the selection committee is your buyer.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/this-girl-walks-into-a-bar-2026-06-28t12-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/this-girl-walks-into-a-bar-2026-06-28t12-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/this-girl-walks-into-a-bar-2026-06-28t12-3",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Retail competition win · This Girl Walks Into a Bar\n\nFemale-founded cocktail mixer selected from 400 applicants for national retail expansion.\n\nenter founder-led retail competitions and accelerators before cold-calling buyers. This Girl Walks won shelf space through structured competition, not email outreach. The retailers staffing these conferences are looking to fill categories with emerging founders; you eliminate the gatekeeper by being in the room where selection happens. Apply to every 2026 Nourishing Change, Summer Fancy Food Show, and CPG pitch competition—the selection committee is your buyer.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/this-girl-walks-into-a-bar-2026-06-28t12-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/this-girl-walks-into-a-bar-2026-06-28t12-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/this-girl-walks-into-a-bar-2026-06-28t12-3",
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      "title": "Female-founded cocktail mixer selected from 400 applicants for national retail expansion.",
      "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 👇\nThis Girl Walks Into a Bar, a certified organic cocktail mixer brand, was one of three companies selected from 400 applicants at the Nourishing Change Conference for national retail expansion, per Knox News.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): enter founder-led retail competitions and accelerators before cold-calling buyers. This Girl Walks won shelf space through structured competition, not email outreach. The retailers staffing these conferences are looking to fill categories with emerging founders; you eliminate the gatekeeper by being in the room where selection happens. Apply to every 2026 Nourishing Change, Summer Fancy Food Show, and CPG pitch competition—the selection committee is your buyer.\nWhat that means for you: enter founder-led retail competitions and accelerators before cold-calling buyers. This Girl Walks won shelf space through structured competition, not email outreach. The retailers staffing these conferences are looking to fill categories with emerging founders; you eliminate the gatekeeper by being in the room where selection happens. Apply to every 2026 Nourishing Change, Summer Fancy Food Show, and CPG pitch competition—the selection committee is your buyer.\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 — Knox News (Press Release): https://www.knoxnews.com/press-release/story/194039/this-girl-walks-into-a-bar-named-2026-emerging-brand-winner-at-nourishing-change-conference/.)\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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