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  "headline": "Walmart conversion rate runs 5x higher than online for prescription skincare.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Retail distribution test · Curology\n\nWalmart conversion rate runs 5x higher than online for prescription skincare.\n\nMost DTC founders treat retail like a necessary evil, a margin-eroding tax they pay to get shelf space. Curology flipped it: they tested Walmart as a demand-generation engine and discovered the channel itself was doing the work their paid ads couldn't. Five-to-one is not a rounding error. It's the signal that you've found a customer who was already looking. Don't scale it yet—but do measure it ruthlessly this quarter.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/curology-2026-08-25t06-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/curology-2026-08-25t06-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/curology-2026-08-25t06-1",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Retail distribution test · Curology\n\nWalmart conversion rate runs 5x higher than online for prescription skincare.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/curology-2026-08-25t06-1",
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      "title": "Walmart conversion rate runs 5x higher than online for prescription skincare.",
      "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 👇\nCurology tested Walmart as an acquisition channel for its prescription skin-care business and achieved conversion rates five times higher than its online channel, per Glossy.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): retail footfall is pre-qualified intent. A Walmart shopper in the skincare aisle is closer to a purchase decision than a cold-traffic pixel. If your product sits in the consideration set (skincare, wellness, CPG), a single retail test often outpaces your entire paid acquisition spend. Test one SKU in one format (trial size, bundled) in a single metro Walmart, measure conversion against your online baseline for the same period, then build media around the ratio—not the channel.\nWhat that means for you: Most DTC founders treat retail like a necessary evil, a margin-eroding tax they pay to get shelf space. Curology flipped it: they tested Walmart as a demand-generation engine and discovered the channel itself was doing the work their paid ads couldn't. Five-to-one is not a rounding error. It's the signal that you've found a customer who was already looking. Don't scale it yet—but do measure it ruthlessly this quarter.\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 — Glossy: https://www.glossy.co/beauty/wellness/curology-walmart-prescription-skincare-conversion/?utm_campaign=glossydis&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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