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  "company": "Ibotta",
  "headline": "62% of shoppers now choose price over brand loyalty, reshaping CPG trial.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Loyalty-price inversion data · Ibotta\n\n62% of shoppers now choose price over brand loyalty, reshaping CPG trial.\n\nThis is the hard number everybody has been dancing around. Loyalty is dead when price swings the needle harder. The move is not to \"build community\" or \"get authentic\"—those play on top of a foundation that no longer exists. Start with the spreadsheet: what is your current margin per unit, and how much can you drop the price without gutting profitability? Test it. Most small brands leave 15-30% lift on the floor because they never cut the price long enough to see what actually happens.\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-2026-07-17t00-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/ibotta-2026-07-17t00-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/ibotta-2026-07-17t00-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Loyalty-price inversion data · Ibotta\n\n62% of shoppers now choose price over brand loyalty, reshaping CPG trial.\n\nThis is the hard number everybody has been dancing around. Loyalty is dead when price swings the needle harder. The move is not to \"build community\" or \"get authentic\"—those play on top of a foundation that no longer exists. Start with the spreadsheet: what is your current margin per unit, and how much can you drop the price without gutting profitability? Test it. Most small brands leave 15-30% lift on the floor because they never cut the price long enough to see what actually happens.\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-2026-07-17t00-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/ibotta-2026-07-17t00-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/ibotta-2026-07-17t00-1",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Loyalty-price inversion data · Ibotta\n\n62% of shoppers now choose price over brand loyalty, reshaping CPG trial.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/ibotta-2026-07-17t00-1",
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      "title": "62% of shoppers now choose price over brand loyalty, reshaping CPG trial.",
      "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 identity, a structural shift forcing CPG marketers to rethink acquisition and retention mechanics.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): run a limited-time price test on your highest-SKU item with clear before-and-after visuals (old price struck, new price bold) in your email list and paid social. Capture the baseline conversion for 14 days, then flip to the discount and measure lift. If lift is 25% or more, you have proof that a permanent price repositioning works—and you can negotiate cost reductions from suppliers using that conversion data. Most brands skip the test and leave margin on the table; the ones winning right now price-test in real time and scale what moves.\nWhat that means for you: This is the hard number everybody has been dancing around. Loyalty is dead when price swings the needle harder. The move is not to \"build community\" or \"get authentic\"—those play on top of a foundation that no longer exists. Start with the spreadsheet: what is your current margin per unit, and how much can you drop the price without gutting profitability? Test it. Most small brands leave 15-30% lift on the floor because they never cut the price long enough to see what actually happens.\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/CBMimAJBVV95cUxNSGN0WFZ6bTU5a1VyUWRUT2Z3V0VTazVoRGtCa190akUtUnhvQ3ZtOXVLVFRlSWgwVTdqTTJnU3U4Wng2Y0RNM3lQNjhRZXpLbkRxaXVYOHFXY0dyaUVzLVlaeC1TUURsMTBEakVqR241QUxyeW5xbGpQWkJVcG5KdXFoVTZPSmFGbmVGQTFKVUNZQ2Z5S3REd003cHdIcUxrZzlBTGtPcDc2ZDZuaXBZYXFSRmctU192dG1GQ1djUXdXR3hLVldUVzZBOTdzZzl0LWNzbUlEOEdNQjl6UjhaQVYzS2RTX0NhaUNGcGlQWEI1UDd3Q001ZVNwWEx6RWYyd01NWkZ1cmd4dllzVmh5aFBBc2w3MTNY?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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