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  "company": "Costco",
  "headline": "Digital sales hit $33 billion in 2026, up more than 20%.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}",
  "source_name": "Modern Retail",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Omnichannel expansion and platform partnerships · Costco\n\nDigital sales hit $33 billion in 2026, up more than 20%.\n\nThis is the ugliest win in retail right now: it looks like you're not doing much, but you're actually removing the bottleneck. Costco isn't running DoorDash's business; they're saying 'take what you need from this pile at this cost, and we keep margin.' Every brand with physical inventory should ask: who else could move this without me managing their P&L? The answer is usually three people you're not talking to yet.\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-2026-09-25t06-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/costco-2026-09-25t06-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/costco-2026-09-25t06-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Omnichannel expansion and platform partnerships · Costco\n\nDigital sales hit $33 billion in 2026, up more than 20%.\n\nThis is the ugliest win in retail right now: it looks like you're not doing much, but you're actually removing the bottleneck. Costco isn't running DoorDash's business; they're saying 'take what you need from this pile at this cost, and we keep margin.' Every brand with physical inventory should ask: who else could move this without me managing their P&L? The answer is usually three people you're not talking to yet.\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-2026-09-25t06-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/costco-2026-09-25t06-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/costco-2026-09-25t06-1",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Omnichannel expansion and platform partnerships · Costco\n\nDigital sales hit $33 billion in 2026, up more than 20%.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/costco-2026-09-25t06-1",
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      "title": "Digital sales hit $33 billion in 2026, up more than 20%.",
      "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's digital business grew over 20% to $33 billion in 2026, driven by direct-to-consumer sales, third-party marketplace integrations (DoorDash, Uber Eats), and warehouse fulfillment, per Modern Retail.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): a warehouse operator already has the hardest asset—inventory density and logistics. The move is not 'go digital' but 'let other platforms fulfill from your floor at your margin.' Build a simple API, hand inventory visibility to three fulfillment partners, and take a commission on every order shipped from your physical location. You own the box; they own the customer. Ship margins stay intact, and you scale fulfillment without building new capacity.\nWhat that means for you: This is the ugliest win in retail right now: it looks like you're not doing much, but you're actually removing the bottleneck. Costco isn't running DoorDash's business; they're saying 'take what you need from this pile at this cost, and we keep margin.' Every brand with physical inventory should ask: who else could move this without me managing their P&L? The answer is usually three people you're not talking to yet.\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/operations/costcos-digital-sales-hit-33-billion-in-2026-growing-more-than-20/?utm_campaign=modernretaildis&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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