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  "company": "Ulta Beauty × Gen Alpha",
  "headline": "Ulta Beauty surveyed 500+ Gen Alpha to learn what they actually buy.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ PAPER · Demographic research partnership · Ulta Beauty × Gen Alpha\n\nUlta Beauty surveyed 500+ Gen Alpha to learn what they actually buy.\n\nGen Alpha beauty is a hot category, and most brands are guessing. Ulta just spent money to not guess. That is it. You do not need a massive panel; you need enough respondents to break down buying by sub-segment and motivation. The survey is the cheapest market research a brand can run, and it beats intuition every time.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/ulta-beauty-gen-alpha-2026-07-05t12-7\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/ulta-beauty-gen-alpha-2026-07-05t12-7\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/ulta-beauty-gen-alpha-2026-07-05t12-7",
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      "title": "Ulta Beauty surveyed 500+ Gen Alpha to learn what they actually buy.",
      "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 👇\nUlta Beauty partnered with NielsenIQ to survey more than 500 Gen Alpha children and teens on preferences and motivations, per Glossy, signaling a shift from age-group assumptions to documented behavior.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if you sell to a demographic you do not come from, commission a small survey (200-500 respondents, $3k-$8k) from a research firm. Ask what they actually buy, why they buy it, and what they want that does not exist. Use the data to pick one product move or messaging change per quarter. You are not trying to predict the future; you are trying to get one step ahead of your assumptions.\nWhat that means for you: Gen Alpha beauty is a hot category, and most brands are guessing. Ulta just spent money to not guess. That is it. You do not need a massive panel; you need enough respondents to break down buying by sub-segment and motivation. The survey is the cheapest market research a brand can run, and it beats intuition every time.\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/ulta-beauty-strategies-what-ulta-is-learning-about-gen-alpha-consumers/.)\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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