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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 · Omnichannel expansion via DoorDash, Uber Eats partnerships · Costco\n\nDigital sales hit $33 billion in 2026, growing over 20% year-over-year.\n\nThis is the move every DTC founder knows but most don't do. You spend two years and $2M building a fulfillment network. Costco rented someone else's. The insight is not new — the lesson is that even a $300B company defaults to partnership over build. If Costco does not own the last-mile truck, neither should you. The math on partnered logistics beats owned logistics at every revenue stage under $50M ARR.\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-2026-09-27t15-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/costco-2026-09-27t15-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/costco-2026-09-27t15-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Omnichannel expansion via DoorDash, Uber Eats partnerships · Costco\n\nDigital sales hit $33 billion in 2026, growing over 20% year-over-year.\n\nThis is the move every DTC founder knows but most don't do. You spend two years and $2M building a fulfillment network. Costco rented someone else's. The insight is not new — the lesson is that even a $300B company defaults to partnership over build. If Costco does not own the last-mile truck, neither should you. The math on partnered logistics beats owned logistics at every revenue stage under $50M ARR.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/costco-2026-09-27t15-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/costco-2026-09-27t15-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/costco-2026-09-27t15-1",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Omnichannel expansion via DoorDash, Uber Eats partnerships · 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-2026-09-27t15-1",
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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, growing more than 20%, as the warehouse operator extended reach beyond physical warehouses through delivery platform partnerships, per Modern Retail.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): your fulfillment center is already someone else's platform. Do not build warehouse infrastructure to reach a new audience — partner with a logistics player who already has trucks at the customer's door. Costco moved $33B in sales by borrowing DoorDash and Uber's delivery fleets instead of owning the last mile. Run this week: audit which delivery or marketplace platform already serves your target customer daily, then pitch a test SKU bundle to their merchant team.\nWhat that means for you: This is the move every DTC founder knows but most don't do. You spend two years and $2M building a fulfillment network. Costco rented someone else's. The insight is not new — the lesson is that even a $300B company defaults to partnership over build. If Costco does not own the last-mile truck, neither should you. The math on partnered logistics beats owned logistics at every revenue stage under $50M ARR.\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/?utm_campaign=modernretaildis&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=general-rss.)\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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