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  "company": "Ibotta",
  "headline": "62% of shoppers now choose price over brand loyalty, reshaping CPG trial strategy.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}",
  "source_name": "Business Wire",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Shopper behavior shift toward value · Ibotta\n\n62% of shoppers now choose price over brand loyalty, reshaping CPG trial strategy.\n\nThis is the year brand loyalty broke. Shoppers have seen every campaign; they care about cash. The operators I see winning are not fighting this — they are using it. A $4.99 trial size at $3.49 costs you money, but it costs a competitor nothing if they do not try it. The email after? That is where the margin lives. This week: price your smallest format 10% below the cheapest competitor for the next month. Measure repeat-purchase rate to that second SKU. If it hits 35%+, you have found your trial-to-upsell engine.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/ibotta-2026-06-08t09-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/ibotta-2026-06-08t09-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/ibotta-2026-06-08t09-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Shopper behavior shift toward value · Ibotta\n\n62% of shoppers now choose price over brand loyalty, reshaping CPG trial strategy.\n\nThis is the year brand loyalty broke. Shoppers have seen every campaign; they care about cash. The operators I see winning are not fighting this — they are using it. A $4.99 trial size at $3.49 costs you money, but it costs a competitor nothing if they do not try it. The email after? That is where the margin lives. This week: price your smallest format 10% below the cheapest competitor for the next month. Measure repeat-purchase rate to that second SKU. If it hits 35%+, you have found your trial-to-upsell engine.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/ibotta-2026-06-08t09-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/ibotta-2026-06-08t09-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/ibotta-2026-06-08t09-2",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Shopper behavior shift toward value · Ibotta\n\n62% of shoppers now choose price over brand loyalty, reshaping CPG trial strategy.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/ibotta-2026-06-08t09-2",
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      "title": "62% of shoppers now choose price over brand loyalty, reshaping CPG trial strategy.",
      "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 👇\nPer Ibotta's 2026 State of Spend Report, cited in Business Wire, price is now the dominant purchase driver for a majority of shoppers, forcing CPG brands to rethink trial acquisition and retention tactics away from brand messaging alone.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): stop spending on brand-awareness ads. Instead, run a 4-week loss-leader promotion on your lowest-price entry point (the 8 oz size, the trial size, the starter flavor). Price it 15–20% below category average. The margin evaporates on that first order. But every buyer who completes that order gets a post-purchase email with a reorder code good for 25% off the 16 oz size — your real profit SKU. Track repeat rate. A 40%+ repeat rate on the upsell tells you the product holds. A sub-30% rate tells you to test a different flavor or format next month. You are not selling the trial; you are buying the first-time buyer's email at a known cost, then upselling after the demo.\nWhat that means for you: This is the year brand loyalty broke. Shoppers have seen every campaign; they care about cash. The operators I see winning are not fighting this — they are using it. A $4.99 trial size at $3.49 costs you money, but it costs a competitor nothing if they do not try it. The email after? That is where the margin lives. This week: price your smallest format 10% below the cheapest competitor for the next month. Measure repeat-purchase rate to that second SKU. If it hits 35%+, you have found your trial-to-upsell engine.\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 — Business Wire: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMimAJBVV95cUxNSGN0WFZ6bTU5a1VyUWRUT2Z3V0VTazVoRGtCa190akUtUnhvQ3ZtOXVLVFRlSWgwVTdqTTJnU3U4Wng2Y0RNM3lQNjhRZXpLbkRxaXVYOHFXY0dyaUVzLVlaeC1TUURsMTBEakVqR243QUxyeW5xbGpQWkJVcG5KdXFoVTZPSmFGbmVGQTFKVUNZQ2Z5S3REd003cHdIcUxrZzlBTGtPcDc2ZDZuaXBZYXFSRmctU192dG1GQ1djUXdXR3hLVldUVzZBOTdzZzl0LWNzbUlEOEdNQjl6UjhaQVYzS2RTX0NhaUNGcGlQWEI1UDd3Q001ZVNwWEx6RWYyd01NWkZ1cmd4dllzVmh5aFBBc2w3MTNY?oc=5.)\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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