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  "company": "Kroger and BJ's",
  "headline": "Retailers cutting and adding SKUs: Kroger adds 870 private label items as BJ's cuts 20% of portfolio.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}",
  "source_name": "Food Industry Executive",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Portfolio rationalization and private label expansion · Kroger and BJ's\n\nRetailers cutting and adding SKUs: Kroger adds 870 private label items as BJ's cuts 20% of portfolio.\n\nA retailer cutting 20% of SKUs is not an anomaly — it's the playbook now. Every buyer is measuring margin per square foot and removing the laggards. If you have more than one SKU per retailer, one of them is at risk. The move is to identify which one this quarter and fix it before it gets cut. Add a discount, run a bundle, or simplify the packaging to reduce cost and increase turn. Do something now.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/kroger-and-bjs-2026-09-27t21-6\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/kroger-and-bjs-2026-09-27t21-6\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/kroger-and-bjs-2026-09-27t21-6",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Portfolio rationalization and private label expansion · Kroger and BJ's\n\nRetailers cutting and adding SKUs: Kroger adds 870 private label items as BJ's cuts 20% of portfolio.\n\nA retailer cutting 20% of SKUs is not an anomaly — it's the playbook now. Every buyer is measuring margin per square foot and removing the laggards. If you have more than one SKU per retailer, one of them is at risk. The move is to identify which one this quarter and fix it before it gets cut. Add a discount, run a bundle, or simplify the packaging to reduce cost and increase turn. Do something now.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/kroger-and-bjs-2026-09-27t21-6\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/kroger-and-bjs-2026-09-27t21-6\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/kroger-and-bjs-2026-09-27t21-6",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Portfolio rationalization and private label expansion · Kroger and BJ's\n\nRetailers cutting and adding SKUs: Kroger adds 870 private label items as…\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/kroger-and-bjs-2026-09-27t21-6",
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      "title": "Retailers cutting and adding SKUs: Kroger adds 870 private label items as BJ's cuts 20% of portfolio.",
      "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 👇\nBJ's is cutting 20% of its SKUs while Kroger is adding 870 private label items, signaling a shift in retail strategy toward owned brands and curated assortments, per Food Industry Executive.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): audit your SKU velocity at every retailer account. Rank each SKU by sell-through per linear foot, not absolute sales. If a SKU is moving slower than the private label next to it, it's at risk. Before the buyer cuts it, run a test: increase the discount by 15% for eight weeks, measure velocity lift, and show the buyer the new turn rate. If it doesn't move, accept that the SKU may not survive the next planogram reset. The move is to know which of your SKUs are vulnerable before the retailer tells you they are gone.\nWhat that means for you: A retailer cutting 20% of SKUs is not an anomaly — it's the playbook now. Every buyer is measuring margin per square foot and removing the laggards. If you have more than one SKU per retailer, one of them is at risk. The move is to identify which one this quarter and fix it before it gets cut. Add a discount, run a bundle, or simplify the packaging to reduce cost and increase turn. Do something now.\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 — Food Industry Executive: http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6ab983eaaebd406ab96a0cdbfbbdae07&url=https%3a%2f%2ffoodindustryexecutive.com%2f2026%2f09%2f24-of-food-and-beverage-dollars-now-go-to-private-label-which-of-your-skus-will-survive%2f&c=8519620967727366210&mkt=en-us.)\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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