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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Category-wide demand shift · Multiple brewers (midsize category shift)\n\nMidsize brewers pivot marketing spend away from volume as U.S. beer consumption declines.\n\nwhen your category shrinks, volume marketing becomes a loss leader. Midsize brewers are learning this; so should you. If your market is flat or declining, stop chasing new customers at scale. Instead: (1) raise price on your best seller; (2) bundle slow movers with fast movers; (3) target micro-segments (regional, demographic, lifestyle) where you can dominate attention. Spend moves from broad campaigns to deep retention and premium positioning. A smaller, higher-margin customer is worth more than a large, low-margin one.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/multiple-brewers-midsize-category-shift-2026-10-03t09-6\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/multiple-brewers-midsize-category-shift-2026-10-03t09-6\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/multiple-brewers-midsize-category-shift-2026-10-03t09-6",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Category-wide demand shift · Multiple brewers (midsize category shift)\n\nMidsize brewers pivot marketing spend away from volume as U.S. beer consumption declines.\n\nwhen your category shrinks, volume marketing becomes a loss leader. Midsize brewers are learning this; so should you. If your market is flat or declining, stop chasing new customers at scale. Instead: (1) raise price on your best seller; (2) bundle slow movers with fast movers; (3) target micro-segments (regional, demographic, lifestyle) where you can dominate attention. Spend moves from broad campaigns to deep retention and premium positioning. A smaller, higher-margin customer is worth more than a large, low-margin one.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/multiple-brewers-midsize-category-shift-2026-10-03t09-6\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/multiple-brewers-midsize-category-shift-2026-10-03t09-6\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/multiple-brewers-midsize-category-shift-2026-10-03t09-6",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Category-wide demand shift · Multiple brewers (midsize category shift)\n\nMidsize brewers pivot marketing spend away from volume…\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/multiple-brewers-midsize-category-shift-2026-10-03t09-6",
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      "title": "Midsize brewers pivot marketing spend away from volume as U.S. beer consumption declines.",
      "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 👇\nMidsize brewers are reshaping marketing strategy in response to declining beer consumption in the U.S., per Marketing Dive, moving away from volume-driven campaigns.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): when your category shrinks, volume marketing becomes a loss leader. Midsize brewers are learning this; so should you. If your market is flat or declining, stop chasing new customers at scale. Instead: (1) raise price on your best seller; (2) bundle slow movers with fast movers; (3) target micro-segments (regional, demographic, lifestyle) where you can dominate attention. Spend moves from broad campaigns to deep retention and premium positioning. A smaller, higher-margin customer is worth more than a large, low-margin one.\nWhat that means for you: when your category shrinks, volume marketing becomes a loss leader. Midsize brewers are learning this; so should you. If your market is flat or declining, stop chasing new customers at scale. Instead: (1) raise price on your best seller; (2) bundle slow movers with fast movers; (3) target micro-segments (regional, demographic, lifestyle) where you can dominate attention. Spend moves from broad campaigns to deep retention and premium positioning. A smaller, higher-margin customer is worth more than a large, low-margin one.\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 — Marketing Dive: https://www.marketingdive.com/news/midsize-brewers-shake-up-marketing-strategies-as-americans-drink-less/831982/.)\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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