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  "company": "Dick's Sporting Goods",
  "headline": "Dick's pitches youth sports angle to CPG and QSR advertisers in-store.",
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  "source_name": "Modern Retail",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Retail media repositioning · Dick's Sporting Goods\n\nDick's pitches youth sports angle to CPG and QSR advertisers in-store.\n\nmap your retail media pitch to the specific audience already inside the store, then package that audience context into the ad pitch. If you own physical retail, audit who shops there and what they're shopping for, then sell ad placements to brands whose products align with that buyer's mindset. Dick's turned youth-athlete audiences into a media product. For brands: if you're pitching retail media, lead with the audience context, not the impression count.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/dicks-sporting-goods-2026-09-11t06-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/dicks-sporting-goods-2026-09-11t06-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/dicks-sporting-goods-2026-09-11t06-3",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GOLD · Retail media repositioning · Dick's Sporting Goods\n\nDick's pitches youth sports angle to CPG and QSR advertisers in-store.\n\nmap your retail media pitch to the specific audience already inside the store, then package that audience context into the ad pitch. If you own physical retail, audit who shops there and what they're shopping for, then sell ad placements to brands whose products align with that buyer's mindset. Dick's turned youth-athlete audiences into a media product. For brands: if you're pitching retail media, lead with the audience context, not the impression count.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/dicks-sporting-goods-2026-09-11t06-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/dicks-sporting-goods-2026-09-11t06-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/dicks-sporting-goods-2026-09-11t06-3",
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      "title": "Dick's pitches youth sports angle to CPG and QSR advertisers in-store.",
      "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 👇\nDick's Sporting Goods' advertising division is targeting CPG brands, quick-service restaurants, and automakers to run campaigns in its stores by leaning on its youth sports tie-ins, per Modern Retail.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): map your retail media pitch to the specific audience already inside the store, then package that audience context into the ad pitch. If you own physical retail, audit who shops there and what they're shopping for, then sell ad placements to brands whose products align with that buyer's mindset. Dick's turned youth-athlete audiences into a media product. For brands: if you're pitching retail media, lead with the audience context, not the impression count.\nWhat that means for you: map your retail media pitch to the specific audience already inside the store, then package that audience context into the ad pitch. If you own physical retail, audit who shops there and what they're shopping for, then sell ad placements to brands whose products align with that buyer's mindset. Dick's turned youth-athlete audiences into a media product. For brands: if you're pitching retail media, lead with the audience context, not the impression count.\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/marketing/big-box-briefing-dicks-leans-on-youth-sports-in-pitch-to-advertisers/?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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