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  "company": "Alliance Entertainment",
  "headline": "Collectibles sales rose 45% year-over-year at major distributor, signaling hard goods momentum.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · Category acceleration at distribution tier · Alliance Entertainment\n\nCollectibles sales rose 45% year-over-year at major distributor, signaling hard goods momentum.\n\nCollectibles are expensive for consumers but cheap to produce relative to markup. A $15 trading card box costs $3 to manufacture. The distributor buys at $6, the retailer buys at $10, and sells at $15-20. Everyone wins because the velocity is so high. If you have a product in this space, the distributor is your distribution play.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/alliance-entertainment-2026-09-11t09-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/alliance-entertainment-2026-09-11t09-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/alliance-entertainment-2026-09-11t09-5",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · Category acceleration at distribution tier · Alliance Entertainment\n\nCollectibles sales rose 45% year-over-year at major distributor, signaling hard goods momentum.\n\nCollectibles are expensive for consumers but cheap to produce relative to markup. A $15 trading card box costs $3 to manufacture. The distributor buys at $6, the retailer buys at $10, and sells at $15-20. Everyone wins because the velocity is so high. If you have a product in this space, the distributor is your distribution play.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/alliance-entertainment-2026-09-11t09-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/alliance-entertainment-2026-09-11t09-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/alliance-entertainment-2026-09-11t09-5",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · Category acceleration at distribution tier · Alliance Entertainment\n\nCollectibles sales rose 45% year-over-year at major distributor…\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/alliance-entertainment-2026-09-11t09-5",
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      "title": "Collectibles sales rose 45% year-over-year at major distributor, signaling hard goods momentum.",
      "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 👇\nCollectibles sales at Alliance Entertainment rose 45% per Stock Titan, indicating sustained retailer demand for trading cards, figures, and collectible products across independent and chain retail.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if you make trading cards, collectible figures, or sealed products, get your distributor contact now. Alliance's 45% growth shows retailers will give you shelf space if your distributor pushes it. Distributors take 40-50% margin, but they also reach 10,000+ retail doors you can't touch alone. Negotiate a minimum order, give the distributor exclusive territory, and you get paid in 60 days. Your job: make sure the product ships in under two weeks when reordered.\nWhat that means for you: Collectibles are expensive for consumers but cheap to produce relative to markup. A $15 trading card box costs $3 to manufacture. The distributor buys at $6, the retailer buys at $10, and sells at $15-20. Everyone wins because the velocity is so high. If you have a product in this space, the distributor is your distribution play.\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 — Stock Titan: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiugFBVV95cUxPUDdFTkxXRXJpRnZZUEw4YUhFRFJTLWtpMWNDUHZfczR5dU9USW9FUmdjQmJCYVlwR05CaV8xb1psMzFLME9QeWtKTTlSeGNsV0c3MWJPUjUzNzBBTkFIXy1fNnFPY0xwZEFvNnFMNEhWODFYWDYtZlp4QmItTlhNbUNxWms4NEhnLXRreXBTdTRvbVJGb05kOXNZbEpna2ZETGJkcm16eVh2NW1XN1JJSzJKbHpjbGM1R1E.)\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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