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  "headline": "CarParts.com's A-Premium partnership moved from $45M to $50M run rate in one quarter.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ GOLD · Strategic partnership scaling · CarParts.com\n\nCarParts.com's A-Premium partnership moved from $45M to $50M run rate in one quarter.\n\nif you're physical-product, don't build logistics from zero. Find a partner already operating at your target scale, run a pilot quarter, measure the output (packages per week, cost per unit shipped), then commit to a growth target for the next quarter. CarParts didn't announce a ten-year deal—it showed Q1 run rate, then Q2 run rate, proving the model works before scaling further. For a brand doing $1-5M in DTC: identify one last-mile operator already handling 50,000+ packages per month, propose a 90-day pilot (target: 5,000 packages per month from your orders), measure the cost per package and on-time rate, then set a Q2 commitment. The data will tell you if the partnership scales or if you need a different operator.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/carpartscom-2026-08-21t06-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/carpartscom-2026-08-21t06-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/carpartscom-2026-08-21t06-3",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ GOLD · Strategic partnership scaling · CarParts.com\n\nCarParts.com's A-Premium partnership moved from $45M to $50M run rate in one quarter.\n\nif you're physical-product, don't build logistics from zero. Find a partner already operating at your target scale, run a pilot quarter, measure the output (packages per week, cost per unit shipped), then commit to a growth target for the next quarter. CarParts didn't announce a ten-year deal—it showed Q1 run rate, then Q2 run rate, proving the model works before scaling further. For a brand doing $1-5M in DTC: identify one last-mile operator already handling 50,000+ packages per month, propose a 90-day pilot (target: 5,000 packages per month from your orders), measure the cost per package and on-time rate, then set a Q2 commitment. The data will tell you if the partnership scales or if you need a different operator.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/carpartscom-2026-08-21t06-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/carpartscom-2026-08-21t06-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/carpartscom-2026-08-21t06-3",
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      "title": "CarParts.com's A-Premium partnership moved from $45M to $50M run rate in one quarter.",
      "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 👇\nSeeking Alpha reported CarParts.com's A-Premium partnership scaled quarter over quarter, moving from an approximately $45 million run rate in Q1 to approaching the $50 million mark in Q2, with a goal of 300,000-package last-mile operations.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if you're physical-product, don't build logistics from zero. Find a partner already operating at your target scale, run a pilot quarter, measure the output (packages per week, cost per unit shipped), then commit to a growth target for the next quarter. CarParts didn't announce a ten-year deal—it showed Q1 run rate, then Q2 run rate, proving the model works before scaling further. For a brand doing $1-5M in DTC: identify one last-mile operator already handling 50,000+ packages per month, propose a 90-day pilot (target: 5,000 packages per month from your orders), measure the cost per package and on-time rate, then set a Q2 commitment. The data will tell you if the partnership scales or if you need a different operator.\nWhat that means for you: if you're physical-product, don't build logistics from zero. Find a partner already operating at your target scale, run a pilot quarter, measure the output (packages per week, cost per unit shipped), then commit to a growth target for the next quarter. CarParts didn't announce a ten-year deal—it showed Q1 run rate, then Q2 run rate, proving the model works before scaling further. For a brand doing $1-5M in DTC: identify one last-mile operator already handling 50,000+ packages per month, propose a 90-day pilot (target: 5,000 packages per month from your orders), measure the cost per package and on-time rate, then set a Q2 commitment. The data will tell you if the partnership scales or if you need a different operator.\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 — Seeking Alpha: http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a87e9a5377843d68c17a9ab2524c0f8&url=https%3a%2f%2fseekingalpha.com%2fnews%2f4628661-carparts-com-targets-free-cash-flow-positive-in-2026-with-a-premium-near-50m-run-rate-and&c=7803918660261189570&mkt=en-us.)\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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