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  "company": "Ibotta",
  "headline": "62% of shoppers now choose price over brand, reshaping CPG trial strategy",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · State of Spend Report 2026 · Ibotta\n\n62% of shoppers now choose price over brand, reshaping CPG trial strategy.\n\nThe Ibotta number is the permission structure. For years, operators have been told they need brand-building budgets. This report says the math has inverted — price is the brand now. Sounds bleak until you realize: price is the one lever you control without needing an agency, a celebrity, or months of production. If 62% of your shoppers care more about price than your logo, spend that brand budget on a rebate instead. Watch the trial rate move in weeks, not quarters.\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-2026-06-27t03-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/ibotta-2026-06-27t03-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/ibotta-2026-06-27t03-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · State of Spend Report 2026 · Ibotta\n\n62% of shoppers now choose price over brand, reshaping CPG trial strategy.\n\nThe Ibotta number is the permission structure. For years, operators have been told they need brand-building budgets. This report says the math has inverted — price is the brand now. Sounds bleak until you realize: price is the one lever you control without needing an agency, a celebrity, or months of production. If 62% of your shoppers care more about price than your logo, spend that brand budget on a rebate instead. Watch the trial rate move in weeks, not quarters.\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-2026-06-27t03-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/ibotta-2026-06-27t03-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/ibotta-2026-06-27t03-1",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · State of Spend Report 2026 · Ibotta\n\n62% of shoppers now choose price over brand, reshaping CPG trial strategy.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/ibotta-2026-06-27t03-1",
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      "title": "62% of shoppers now choose price over brand, 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 👇\nIbotta's 2026 State of Spend Report documented that 62% of shoppers prioritize price over brand loyalty, forcing CPG operators to rethink trial and loyalty mechanics away from brand prestige and toward value capture.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): stop spending on awareness-building ads and redirect into Ibotta-style rebate infrastructure. Offer $0.50 back on first purchase (platform-native, not on-pack) and watch trial compress into a transaction. The shopper isn't choosing you for love — they're choosing you for the cash. Build the incentive first, the story second. Run a pilot: pick one SKU, seed it with a $1 rebate at checkout on one platform, measure attach rate vs. your last paid-ad campaign for trial.\nWhat that means for you: The Ibotta number is the permission structure. For years, operators have been told they need brand-building budgets. This report says the math has inverted — price is the brand now. Sounds bleak until you realize: price is the one lever you control without needing an agency, a celebrity, or months of production. If 62% of your shoppers care more about price than your logo, spend that brand budget on a rebate instead. Watch the trial rate move in weeks, not quarters.\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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