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  "company": "Best Buy",
  "headline": "Best Buy redesigns stores for AI products: Ray-Ban Meta shop-in-shops.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PAPER · Retail layout optimization for emerging categories · Best Buy\n\nBest Buy redesigns stores for AI products: Ray-Ban Meta shop-in-shops.\n\nThis is an underrated play. Most brands push product at retailers and hope the floor staff figures out how to sell it. Best Buy said: we need to change the physical space, the staffing, and the training to do this right. If you have a product that is hard to explain, this is the move. Do not ask the retailer to figure it out. Show them how. You control the experience, they provide the footfall.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/best-buy-2026-07-26t00-7\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/best-buy-2026-07-26t00-7\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/best-buy-2026-07-26t00-7",
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      "title": "Best Buy redesigns stores for AI products: Ray-Ban Meta shop-in-shops.",
      "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 👇\nBest Buy is rethinking retail footprints to accommodate AI products like Ray-Ban Meta glasses, creating shop-in-shops with flexible layouts and trained staff, per Modern Retail.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): when a new product category requires explanation and trial, do not ask the retailer to fit it into existing shelf. Offer to build the experience yourself. Best Buy partnered with Meta to create the environment, not to retrofit glasses onto an endcap. If your product needs demonstration (wearables, AR, kitchen tech), design the in-store experience alongside your retail partner. The shop-in-shop model lets you own the floor, train the staff, and control the narrative.\nWhat that means for you: This is an underrated play. Most brands push product at retailers and hope the floor staff figures out how to sell it. Best Buy said: we need to change the physical space, the staffing, and the training to do this right. If you have a product that is hard to explain, this is the move. Do not ask the retailer to figure it out. Show them how. You control the experience, they provide the footfall.\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 — Modern Retail: https://www.modernretail.co/retailers/how-best-buy-is-rethinking-retail-footprints-for-ai-products-like-ray-ban-meta-glasses/.)\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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