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  "company": "Kroger",
  "headline": "Ad business profit surged 24% in Q2, fastest growth since 2021.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}",
  "source_name": "Digiday",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Precision Marketing revenue acceleration · Kroger\n\nAd business profit surged 24% in Q2, fastest growth since 2021.\n\nThis is the unglamorous shift nobody talks about: retail is becoming media. Kroger is not selling more groceries—they're selling the certainty that comes with knowing who walked past your shelf, what they bought last time, and whether they bought yours. For a DTC brand trying to get into grocery, this number signals the real margin is now in the media layer, not the margin on the product itself. The smart move is to be inside that stack from day one.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/kroger-2026-09-15t18-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/kroger-2026-09-15t18-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/kroger-2026-09-15t18-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Precision Marketing revenue acceleration · Kroger\n\nAd business profit surged 24% in Q2, fastest growth since 2021.\n\nThis is the unglamorous shift nobody talks about: retail is becoming media. Kroger is not selling more groceries—they're selling the certainty that comes with knowing who walked past your shelf, what they bought last time, and whether they bought yours. For a DTC brand trying to get into grocery, this number signals the real margin is now in the media layer, not the margin on the product itself. The smart move is to be inside that stack from day one.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/kroger-2026-09-15t18-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/kroger-2026-09-15t18-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/kroger-2026-09-15t18-1",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Precision Marketing revenue acceleration · Kroger\n\nAd business profit surged 24% in Q2, fastest growth since 2021.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/kroger-2026-09-15t18-1",
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      "title": "Ad business profit surged 24% in Q2, fastest growth since 2021.",
      "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 👇\nKroger's Precision Marketing advertising unit grew profit 24% in the second quarter, per Digiday's analysis of the retailer's financial earnings.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): every shopper already in your store is data—and CPG brands will pay for certainty. Kroger didn't invent new customers; they sold visibility to existing ones. A physical-product brand with a retail footprint can run this: ask your distributor or retail partner whether they're building a media network. If they are, get your brand into their ad tech stack before competitors do. If they're not, offer to fund the pilot—the ROI on first-party shopper data is higher than paid social.\nWhat that means for you: This is the unglamorous shift nobody talks about: retail is becoming media. Kroger is not selling more groceries—they're selling the certainty that comes with knowing who walked past your shelf, what they bought last time, and whether they bought yours. For a DTC brand trying to get into grocery, this number signals the real margin is now in the media layer, not the margin on the product itself. The smart move is to be inside that stack from day one.\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 — Digiday: https://digiday.com/media/krogers-ad-business-sees-most-profit-growth-since-2021/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&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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