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  "company": "CarParts.com (A-Premium partnership)",
  "headline": "Last-mile logistics scaled $45M to $50M run rate in one quarter.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Partnership velocity & Q-over-Q scaling · CarParts.com (A-Premium partnership)\n\nLast-mile logistics scaled $45M to $50M run rate in one quarter.\n\nCarParts showed that logistics partners can scale your top line if you give them committed volume and then publish the growth. Most DTC brands hide their logistics — CarParts made it a growth metric. The $45M-to-$50M jump in one quarter is not a fluke; it's a partnership with clear throughput targets that both sides are hitting. If you ship product and you're paying per-unit logistics, this is the move: find a partner, commit volume, measure weekly, and tell the world when you hit the next tier.\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-a-premium-partnership-2026-08-17t03-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/carpartscom-a-premium-partnership-2026-08-17t03-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/carpartscom-a-premium-partnership-2026-08-17t03-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Partnership velocity & Q-over-Q scaling · CarParts.com (A-Premium partnership)\n\nLast-mile logistics scaled $45M to $50M run rate in one quarter.\n\nCarParts showed that logistics partners can scale your top line if you give them committed volume and then publish the growth. Most DTC brands hide their logistics — CarParts made it a growth metric. The $45M-to-$50M jump in one quarter is not a fluke; it's a partnership with clear throughput targets that both sides are hitting. If you ship product and you're paying per-unit logistics, this is the move: find a partner, commit volume, measure weekly, and tell the world when you hit the next tier.\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-a-premium-partnership-2026-08-17t03-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/carpartscom-a-premium-partnership-2026-08-17t03-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/carpartscom-a-premium-partnership-2026-08-17t03-2",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Partnership velocity & Q-over-Q scaling · CarParts.com (A-Premium partnership)\n\nLast-mile logistics scaled $45M to $50M run rate…\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/carpartscom-a-premium-partnership-2026-08-17t03-2",
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      "title": "Last-mile logistics scaled $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 👇\nCarParts.com's A-Premium partnership grew from 'approaching $45 million' in Q1 to 'approaching $50 million' in Q2 2026, targeting free cash flow positive status in 2026 with a 300,000-package last-mile goal, per Seeking Alpha.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if you are a DTC physical-product brand with logistics overhead, identify a last-mile partner already built for scale (not a startup, an operational one), negotiate a volume-based deal with quarterly measurement, and publish the growth targets publicly — it signals to retailers and investors that your unit economics are moving. The play: lock a partner for Q1, measure package throughput weekly, renegotiate the volume cap upward by week eight (after proving the baseline), and announce the new run rate to your retail contacts and lenders. The quarterly acceleration is the signal that the partnership is a *distribution asset*, not a cost center.\nWhat that means for you: CarParts showed that logistics partners can scale your top line if you give them committed volume and then publish the growth. Most DTC brands hide their logistics — CarParts made it a growth metric. The $45M-to-$50M jump in one quarter is not a fluke; it's a partnership with clear throughput targets that both sides are hitting. If you ship product and you're paying per-unit logistics, this is the move: find a partner, commit volume, measure weekly, and tell the world when you hit the next tier.\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: https://seekingalpha.com/news/4628661-carparts-com-targets-free-cash-flow-positive-in-2026-with-a-premium-near-50m-run-rate-and.)\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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