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Target and Ulta Beauty are parting ways, ending a partnership launched in 2021 that created in-store shops filled with beauty products at hundreds of the discounter’s stores.

According to a joint release issued Thursday, the companies said they have “mutually agreed” not to renew their pact, which concludes in August 2026. Until then, the Ulta Beauty experience at Target will continue in Target stores and on Target.com, the release said. Also, shoppers who linked their Ulta Beauty Rewards and Target Circle accounts will continue to earn Ulta reward points on eligible Ulta purchases at Target until August 2026.

Bolingbrook-based Ulta is currently in 600 of Target’s roughly 1,980

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