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  "company": "Lowe's",
  "headline": "In-store marketplace ordering now live in 1,700+ stores via employee app.",
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  "source_name": "Modern Retail",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · Omnichannel fulfillment integration · Lowe's\n\nIn-store marketplace ordering now live in 1,700+ stores via employee app.\n\nMost retailers treat in-store and marketplace as separate buckets — in-store is higher-margin, marketplace is clearance. Lowe's just made the store employee the marketplace fulfillment center. An item that would have been lost in-store now moves through the marketplace, and the employee gets credit. This is the kind of unglamorous integration that actually moves volume. Not exciting. Very profitable.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/lowes-2026-06-26t21-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/lowes-2026-06-26t21-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/lowes-2026-06-26t21-5",
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      "title": "In-store marketplace ordering now live in 1,700+ stores via employee app.",
      "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 👇\nLowe's integrated its third-party marketplace into My Red Vest, the store-floor POS app, allowing employees to help customers order decorative geese, above-ground pools, and other hard-to-stock SKUs in-store.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): do not rebuild your checkout for omnichannel. Embed the marketplace inside the tool your people already have on the floor. Lowe's did not launch a new app or a new checkout. They added marketplace access to an existing employee app. If you have a retail presence and a third-party marketplace, add a simple link or view into your in-store POS so employees can complete sales without sending customers elsewhere. The conversion gain is immediate.\nWhat that means for you: Most retailers treat in-store and marketplace as separate buckets — in-store is higher-margin, marketplace is clearance. Lowe's just made the store employee the marketplace fulfillment center. An item that would have been lost in-store now moves through the marketplace, and the employee gets credit. This is the kind of unglamorous integration that actually moves volume. Not exciting. Very profitable.\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 — Modern Retail: https://www.modernretail.co/operations/lowes-makes-it-easier-to-order-decorative-geese-above-ground-pools-and-other-marketplace-items-in-over-1700-stores/.)\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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