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  "company": "Academy Sports and Outdoors",
  "headline": "Academy Sports taps Instacart for same-day delivery to close the last-mile gap.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ SILVER · Third-party fulfillment partnership · Academy Sports and Outdoors\n\nAcademy Sports taps Instacart for same-day delivery to close the last-mile gap.\n\nif your product is in Academy Sports, the last-mile logistics just changed. You no longer compete on shelf visibility alone; you now compete on same-day delivery speed. Increase your minimum order size to Academy Sports to ensure deeper inventory in high-density zips, because the same-day channel will turn fast-moving SKUs faster than in-store shopping ever did. Talk to the category buyer about inventory position specifically for the Instacart integration, not for the store.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/academy-sports-and-outdoors-2026-08-14t12-4\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/academy-sports-and-outdoors-2026-08-14t12-4\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/academy-sports-and-outdoors-2026-08-14t12-4",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ SILVER · Third-party fulfillment partnership · Academy Sports and Outdoors\n\nAcademy Sports taps Instacart for same-day delivery to close the last-mile gap.\n\nif your product is in Academy Sports, the last-mile logistics just changed. You no longer compete on shelf visibility alone; you now compete on same-day delivery speed. Increase your minimum order size to Academy Sports to ensure deeper inventory in high-density zips, because the same-day channel will turn fast-moving SKUs faster than in-store shopping ever did. Talk to the category buyer about inventory position specifically for the Instacart integration, not for the store.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/academy-sports-and-outdoors-2026-08-14t12-4\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/academy-sports-and-outdoors-2026-08-14t12-4\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/academy-sports-and-outdoors-2026-08-14t12-4",
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      "title": "Academy Sports taps Instacart for same-day delivery to close the last-mile gap.",
      "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 👇\nAcademy Sports and Outdoors integrated Instacart same-day delivery, per Retail Dive, allowing the retailer to offer fulfillment without building its own logistics.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if your product is in Academy Sports, the last-mile logistics just changed. You no longer compete on shelf visibility alone; you now compete on same-day delivery speed. Increase your minimum order size to Academy Sports to ensure deeper inventory in high-density zips, because the same-day channel will turn fast-moving SKUs faster than in-store shopping ever did. Talk to the category buyer about inventory position specifically for the Instacart integration, not for the store.\nWhat that means for you: if your product is in Academy Sports, the last-mile logistics just changed. You no longer compete on shelf visibility alone; you now compete on same-day delivery speed. Increase your minimum order size to Academy Sports to ensure deeper inventory in high-density zips, because the same-day channel will turn fast-moving SKUs faster than in-store shopping ever did. Talk to the category buyer about inventory position specifically for the Instacart integration, not for the store.\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 — Retail Dive: https://www.retaildive.com/news/academy-sports-and-outdoors-instacart-same-day-delivery/827796/.)\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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