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  "company": "Bath & Body Works",
  "headline": "Amazon sales tripled while net sales fell—the channel shift that mattered more.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Third-party marketplace expansion · Bath & Body Works\n\nAmazon sales tripled while net sales fell—the channel shift that mattered more.\n\nwhen your own channels are flat, don't rebuild them—ship to Amazon and let their logistics and trust signal do the selling. A tripled number on a marketplace with zero marketing cost to the brand means the shelf visibility and review velocity were the only real spend. For a brand with inventory and shelf space paid for, moving that stock to a third-party network that handles returns, advertising, and discovery removes friction the brand can't remove at retail. The play: audit your top 500 SKUs by margin and velocity, pull the top 50 into Amazon Seller Central or a managed fulfillment partner, and watch the channel absorb what your retail space can't move.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/bath-body-works-2026-08-27t12-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/bath-body-works-2026-08-27t12-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/bath-body-works-2026-08-27t12-1",
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      "title": "Amazon sales tripled while net sales fell—the channel shift that mattered more.",
      "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 👇\nBath & Body Works reported Amazon sales tripled in Q2 2026, offsetting a 2.3% decline in total net sales to $1.5 billion, per Glossy.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): when your own channels are flat, don't rebuild them—ship to Amazon and let their logistics and trust signal do the selling. A tripled number on a marketplace with zero marketing cost to the brand means the shelf visibility and review velocity were the only real spend. For a brand with inventory and shelf space paid for, moving that stock to a third-party network that handles returns, advertising, and discovery removes friction the brand can't remove at retail. The play: audit your top 500 SKUs by margin and velocity, pull the top 50 into Amazon Seller Central or a managed fulfillment partner, and watch the channel absorb what your retail space can't move.\nWhat that means for you: when your own channels are flat, don't rebuild them—ship to Amazon and let their logistics and trust signal do the selling. A tripled number on a marketplace with zero marketing cost to the brand means the shelf visibility and review velocity were the only real spend. For a brand with inventory and shelf space paid for, moving that stock to a third-party network that handles returns, advertising, and discovery removes friction the brand can't remove at retail. The play: audit your top 500 SKUs by margin and velocity, pull the top 50 into Amazon Seller Central or a managed fulfillment partner, and watch the channel absorb what your retail space can't move.\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 — Glossy: https://www.glossy.co/beauty/bath-body-works-says-its-amazon-sales-have-tripled-as-it-seeks-to-return-to-growth/?utm_campaign=glossydis&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=general-rss.)\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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