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  "company": "Costco",
  "headline": "Digital sales hit $33 billion in 2026, growing over 20% year-over-year.",
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  "source_name": "Modern Retail",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Third-party platform partnerships (DoorDash, Uber Eats) + digital expansion · Costco\n\nDigital sales hit $33 billion in 2026, growing over 20% year-over-year.\n\nEvery physical-product brand thinks they need their own app. Costco is proof you don't. Your customer is already opening DoorDash. You're not winning by asking them to download something new. You're winning by being where they already shop. The math is clean: platform takes a cut, you keep the customer. Ship the repeats, watch the LTV stack.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/costco-2026-09-27t03-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/costco-2026-09-27t03-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/costco-2026-09-27t03-1",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Third-party platform partnerships (DoorDash, Uber Eats) + digital expansion · Costco\n\nDigital sales hit $33 billion in 2026, growing over 20% year-over-year.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/costco-2026-09-27t03-1",
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      "title": "Digital sales hit $33 billion in 2026, growing over 20% year-over-year.",
      "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 👇\nCostco's digital sales reached $33 billion in 2026 with growth exceeding 20%, driven by partnerships with delivery platforms and expansion beyond warehouse doors, per Modern Retail.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): instead of building a delivery app, plug into the delivery app your customer already opens. Costco did not spend on logistics; it spent on platform integration. The play this week: audit which delivery apps your buyer uses most, list your top 20 SKUs on the highest-traffic one, and track repeat rate after 60 days. The platform handles discovery; you handle inventory and margin.\nWhat that means for you: Every physical-product brand thinks they need their own app. Costco is proof you don't. Your customer is already opening DoorDash. You're not winning by asking them to download something new. You're winning by being where they already shop. The math is clean: platform takes a cut, you keep the customer. Ship the repeats, watch the LTV stack.\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 — Modern Retail: https://www.modernretail.co/operations/costcos-digital-sales-hit-33-billion-in-2026-growing-more-than-20/.)\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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