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  "headline": "Flagship gimbal ships to Costco at $199.99, gains shelf placement without brand awareness.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Costco distribution launch · Hohem\n\nFlagship gimbal ships to Costco at $199.99, gains shelf placement without brand awareness.\n\nIf you make a physical product and you're bleeding cash on Facebook ads to cold audiences, this is the move. Costco doesn't care if you're famous—it cares if your product has a margin, a return rate below X percent, and SKU velocity. Ship samples, run the data, then pitch your wholesale contact. Their member email alone is worth 10x your ad budget.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/hohem-2026-10-13t00-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/hohem-2026-10-13t00-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/hohem-2026-10-13t00-2",
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      "title": "Flagship gimbal ships to Costco at $199.99, gains shelf placement without brand awareness.",
      "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 👇\nHohem brought its iSteady M7 AI smartphone gimbal to Costco U.S. online in October 2026 at a fixed $199.99 price point, using Costco's member base to validate a hardware product without D2C ad spend.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): Costco is a distribution channel that doubles as media. The member base is high-intent and Costco's homepage and email reach millions. A brand new to Costco doesn't run ads to drive traffic; it runs a press release and waits for Costco's merchandising and email to surface the SKU. Price anchoring at a round number ($199.99) signals confidence and simplifies the buy. For a hardware brand with low brand awareness, Costco validates the product and funds acquisition—the opposite of D2C ad spend.\nWhat that means for you: If you make a physical product and you're bleeding cash on Facebook ads to cold audiences, this is the move. Costco doesn't care if you're famous—it cares if your product has a margin, a return rate below X percent, and SKU velocity. Ship samples, run the data, then pitch your wholesale contact. Their member email alone is worth 10x your ad budget.\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 — PRNewswire: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hohem-brings-flagship-isteady-m7-ai-tracking-smartphone-gimbal-to-costco-us-302905284.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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