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  "slug": "7-eleven-2026-06-30t18-1",
  "company": "7-Eleven",
  "headline": "7-Eleven launches Gulp Radio, turning checkout into a retail media network.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}",
  "source_name": "Convenience Store News",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · In-store audio advertising platform rollout · 7-Eleven\n\n7-Eleven launches Gulp Radio, turning checkout into a retail media network.\n\nThis is the retail media play everyone missed. TV is dead in the home, but audio still works in cars and now at checkout. 7-Eleven owns the moment. The math is clean: X stores, Y minutes per checkout, Z ad slots per minute = predictable inventory. Brands can't get that predictability anywhere else right now. The barrier is audio rights negotiation and CPG buy-in, not technology. Run a 30-day test with a single category—energy drinks or snacks—to prove the concept before scaling.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/7-eleven-2026-06-30t18-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/7-eleven-2026-06-30t18-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/7-eleven-2026-06-30t18-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · In-store audio advertising platform rollout · 7-Eleven\n\n7-Eleven launches Gulp Radio, turning checkout into a retail media network.\n\nThis is the retail media play everyone missed. TV is dead in the home, but audio still works in cars and now at checkout. 7-Eleven owns the moment. The math is clean: X stores, Y minutes per checkout, Z ad slots per minute = predictable inventory. Brands can't get that predictability anywhere else right now. The barrier is audio rights negotiation and CPG buy-in, not technology. Run a 30-day test with a single category—energy drinks or snacks—to prove the concept before scaling.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/7-eleven-2026-06-30t18-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/7-eleven-2026-06-30t18-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/7-eleven-2026-06-30t18-1",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · In-store audio advertising platform rollout · 7-Eleven\n\n7-Eleven launches Gulp Radio, turning checkout into a retail media network.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/7-eleven-2026-06-30t18-1",
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      "title": "7-Eleven launches Gulp Radio, turning checkout into a retail media network.",
      "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 👇\n7-Eleven deployed Gulp Radio, an audio-based retail media network in stores, converting the checkout environment into an ad channel for CPG brands, per Convenience Store News.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): audio in the checkout line costs less than digital display and doesn't require screen real estate. The buyer is trapped—no scroll-away, no swipe-out. Sell audio slots to CPG brands at a 3-month test rate; measure uplift in items per basket in the sponsor's category. Start with a single store network test, not a rollout.\nWhat that means for you: This is the retail media play everyone missed. TV is dead in the home, but audio still works in cars and now at checkout. 7-Eleven owns the moment. The math is clean: X stores, Y minutes per checkout, Z ad slots per minute = predictable inventory. Brands can't get that predictability anywhere else right now. The barrier is audio rights negotiation and CPG buy-in, not technology. Run a 30-day test with a single category—energy drinks or snacks—to prove the concept before scaling.\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 — Convenience Store News: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMijwFBVV95cUxPUXJjdWFIYWVpOUFDVjdONmpJNFZhaDdJNXNBa2dmaDE4ZS1GWkEyczg1b1hzOEdSbHJwYk1iQTdTdTN1dXpLU2dCRlM1bHFsVkJPU2JfZTQ1bzZ6Wi0yOG5jcU80V3NVTzVkVEVtbVJ0dXdQT3FHU2FUUTE0UDlSVE9LY3hPQ2pjSHdmMG1fSQ?oc=5.)\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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