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  "company": "Costco",
  "headline": "Warehouse retailer expands same-day delivery via Uber and DoorDash nationwide",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ PAPER · E-commerce delivery partnership expansion · Costco\n\nWarehouse retailer expands same-day delivery via Uber and DoorDash nationwide.\n\nThis is a quiet win. Costco did not announce a big logistics investment or invent a new fulfillment model—they just connected to existing networks. For a DTC brand, this is a playbook: if customers are asking for faster delivery and you cannot build it in-house, negotiate a partnership with a third-party logistics company. It costs less upfront and it scales immediately. The early signal is that shoppers are using the service, which suggests it is real and not hype.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/costco-2026-09-22t15-7\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/costco-2026-09-22t15-7\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/costco-2026-09-22t15-7",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ PAPER · E-commerce delivery partnership expansion · Costco\n\nWarehouse retailer expands same-day delivery via Uber and DoorDash nationwide.\n\nThis is a quiet win. Costco did not announce a big logistics investment or invent a new fulfillment model—they just connected to existing networks. For a DTC brand, this is a playbook: if customers are asking for faster delivery and you cannot build it in-house, negotiate a partnership with a third-party logistics company. It costs less upfront and it scales immediately. The early signal is that shoppers are using the service, which suggests it is real and not hype.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/costco-2026-09-22t15-7\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/costco-2026-09-22t15-7\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/costco-2026-09-22t15-7",
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      "title": "Warehouse retailer expands same-day delivery via Uber and DoorDash nationwide",
      "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 👇\nCostco expanded nationwide same-day delivery partnerships with Uber and DoorDash at a time when shoppers are resonating with the convenience, per Retail Dive.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if your customer wants something fast and you do not have the logistics to deliver it, partner with someone who does. Costco could have built a delivery fleet; instead, they piggybacked on Uber and DoorDash's infrastructure. Run this by auditing your fulfillment bottlenecks, then identifying which third-party network already serves your customer (DoorDash for food, Instacart for groceries, Uber for speed). One integration beats months of logistics hiring.\nWhat that means for you: This is a quiet win. Costco did not announce a big logistics investment or invent a new fulfillment model—they just connected to existing networks. For a DTC brand, this is a playbook: if customers are asking for faster delivery and you cannot build it in-house, negotiate a partnership with a third-party logistics company. It costs less upfront and it scales immediately. The early signal is that shoppers are using the service, which suggests it is real and not hype.\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 — Retail Dive: https://www.retaildive.com/news/costco-uber-doordash-nationwide-same-day-delivery-ecommerce/830874/.)\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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