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  "company": "Kroger, BJ's Wholesale",
  "headline": "24% of food dollars shift to private label; retailers cutting SKUs aggressively.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}",
  "source_name": "Food Industry Executive",
  "source_url": "https://foodindustryexecutive.com/2026/09/24-of-food-and-beverage-dollars-now-go-to-private-label-which-of-your-skus-will-survive/",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Private label shelf acceleration · Kroger, BJ's Wholesale\n\n24% of food dollars shift to private label; retailers cutting SKUs aggressively.\n\nif you sell nationally branded food or beverage without direct retailer relationships or strong velocity metrics, your SKU is in the cut zone. The counter-move: either consolidate your SKU count to your top 2–3 bestsellers and negotiate shelf space based on margin per foot, or shift distribution to DTC and niche retailers (Thrive Market, specialty grocers) that value brand over volume. The mechanism: retailers rank SKUs by profit per linear foot. If your SKU moves once per week but takes the same space as a PL product that moves twice per week, you're discontinued. Measure your velocity per foot and your retailer's margin rate—if margin is below category average, you'll be cut.\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-bjs-wholesale-2026-09-26t18-6\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/kroger-bjs-wholesale-2026-09-26t18-6\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/kroger-bjs-wholesale-2026-09-26t18-6",
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      "title": "24% of food dollars shift to private label; retailers cutting SKUs aggressively.",
      "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 👇\nPrivate label now claims 24% of food and beverage dollars spent. BJ's is cutting 20% of SKUs while Kroger is adding 870 private label items, per Food Industry Executive, signaling major consolidation of shelf real estate.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if you sell nationally branded food or beverage without direct retailer relationships or strong velocity metrics, your SKU is in the cut zone. The counter-move: either consolidate your SKU count to your top 2–3 bestsellers and negotiate shelf space based on margin per foot, or shift distribution to DTC and niche retailers (Thrive Market, specialty grocers) that value brand over volume. The mechanism: retailers rank SKUs by profit per linear foot. If your SKU moves once per week but takes the same space as a PL product that moves twice per week, you're discontinued. Measure your velocity per foot and your retailer's margin rate—if margin is below category average, you'll be cut.\nWhat that means for you: if you sell nationally branded food or beverage without direct retailer relationships or strong velocity metrics, your SKU is in the cut zone. The counter-move: either consolidate your SKU count to your top 2–3 bestsellers and negotiate shelf space based on margin per foot, or shift distribution to DTC and niche retailers (Thrive Market, specialty grocers) that value brand over volume. The mechanism: retailers rank SKUs by profit per linear foot. If your SKU moves once per week but takes the same space as a PL product that moves twice per week, you're discontinued. Measure your velocity per foot and your retailer's margin rate—if margin is below category average, you'll be cut.\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 — Food Industry Executive: https://foodindustryexecutive.com/2026/09/24-of-food-and-beverage-dollars-now-go-to-private-label-which-of-your-skus-will-survive/.)\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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