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  "company": "Academy Sports + Outdoors",
  "headline": "Retailer launches in-house retail media arm to recapture supplier ad spend.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Retail media network launch · Academy Sports + Outdoors\n\nRetailer launches in-house retail media arm to recapture supplier ad spend.\n\nretail media is now table stakes for any retailer with foot traffic and transaction data. Academy is not waiting for Amazon to build their audience list — they are building it themselves and pricing it as a first-party data asset. The move works because Academy owns the customer and the conversion data. Brands will test small, prove ROI against Amazon, then shift budget. For a physical-product brand, this means retail media buys are now a channel you negotiate directly with the store, not through a third party.\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-outdoors-2026-08-08t15-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/academy-sports-outdoors-2026-08-08t15-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/academy-sports-outdoors-2026-08-08t15-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Retail media network launch · Academy Sports + Outdoors\n\nRetailer launches in-house retail media arm to recapture supplier ad spend.\n\nretail media is now table stakes for any retailer with foot traffic and transaction data. Academy is not waiting for Amazon to build their audience list — they are building it themselves and pricing it as a first-party data asset. The move works because Academy owns the customer and the conversion data. Brands will test small, prove ROI against Amazon, then shift budget. For a physical-product brand, this means retail media buys are now a channel you negotiate directly with the store, not through a third party.\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-outdoors-2026-08-08t15-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/academy-sports-outdoors-2026-08-08t15-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/academy-sports-outdoors-2026-08-08t15-2",
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      "title": "Retailer launches in-house retail media arm to recapture supplier ad spend.",
      "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 + Outdoors launched Academy Retail Media, an in-house platform to capture advertising dollars that suppliers and brands would otherwise spend on Amazon and third-party channels, per Yahoo Finance.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): retail media is now table stakes for any retailer with foot traffic and transaction data. Academy is not waiting for Amazon to build their audience list — they are building it themselves and pricing it as a first-party data asset. The move works because Academy owns the customer and the conversion data. Brands will test small, prove ROI against Amazon, then shift budget. For a physical-product brand, this means retail media buys are now a channel you negotiate directly with the store, not through a third party.\nWhat that means for you: retail media is now table stakes for any retailer with foot traffic and transaction data. Academy is not waiting for Amazon to build their audience list — they are building it themselves and pricing it as a first-party data asset. The move works because Academy owns the customer and the conversion data. Brands will test small, prove ROI against Amazon, then shift budget. For a physical-product brand, this means retail media buys are now a channel you negotiate directly with the store, not through a third party.\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 — Yahoo Finance: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/academy-sports-outdoors-advances-omnichannel-130500143.html.)\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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