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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 third-party platforms · Costco\n\nDigital sales hit $33 billion in 2026, growing over 20% year-over-year.\n\nMost brands build a DTC site and pray for traffic. Costco asked a smarter question: where is my customer already shopping? Then it showed up there. The third-party platform is not Plan B — it's the faster path to a buyer who has already decided to buy. If you are a physical-product brand and your buyer lives on DoorDash or Uber, that is your distribution channel right now, not later.\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-2026-09-28t03-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/costco-2026-09-28t03-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/costco-2026-09-28t03-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Omnichannel expansion via third-party platforms · Costco\n\nDigital sales hit $33 billion in 2026, growing over 20% year-over-year.\n\nMost brands build a DTC site and pray for traffic. Costco asked a smarter question: where is my customer already shopping? Then it showed up there. The third-party platform is not Plan B — it's the faster path to a buyer who has already decided to buy. If you are a physical-product brand and your buyer lives on DoorDash or Uber, that is your distribution channel right now, not later.\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-2026-09-28t03-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/costco-2026-09-28t03-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/costco-2026-09-28t03-1",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Omnichannel expansion via third-party platforms · 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-2026-09-28t03-1",
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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 channel reached $33 billion in 2026 with growth exceeding 20%, driven by partnerships with DoorDash and Uber Eats extending warehouse inventory beyond physical locations, per Modern Retail.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): do not build a new channel; seed your product into the existing discovery habits of your buyer. Costco put its core SKU list on platforms its members already use for delivery. The $33 billion number includes all digital revenue — but the accelerant is the third-party platform play, not a Costco app. For a brand with limited logistics, identify the platform your buyer is already opening daily and negotiate shelf space inside their existing flow. Ship from existing partners, not from your own fulfillment center.\nWhat that means for you: Most brands build a DTC site and pray for traffic. Costco asked a smarter question: where is my customer already shopping? Then it showed up there. The third-party platform is not Plan B — it's the faster path to a buyer who has already decided to buy. If you are a physical-product brand and your buyer lives on DoorDash or Uber, that is your distribution channel right now, not later.\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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