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  "company": "New York Jets / Coyote Promotions",
  "headline": "Merchandise agency partnership signals shift from in-house to specialized retail operations.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · Third-party merchandise management partnership · New York Jets / Coyote Promotions\n\nMerchandise agency partnership signals shift from in-house to specialized retail operations.\n\nThe Jets move is not about merchandise per se—it's about recognizing that retail operations are a separate business from making the product. Most small brands try to run both in-house and burn out or stall. Coyote's play is to let specialists do the retail while the Jets do the brand. Same applies to your brand if you're at the point where you have 50+ SKU and three people managing inventory.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/new-york-jets-coyote-promotions-2026-08-20t09-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/new-york-jets-coyote-promotions-2026-08-20t09-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/new-york-jets-coyote-promotions-2026-08-20t09-5",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · Third-party merchandise management partnership · New York Jets / Coyote Promotions\n\nMerchandise agency partnership signals shift from in-house to specialized retail operations.\n\nThe Jets move is not about merchandise per se—it's about recognizing that retail operations are a separate business from making the product. Most small brands try to run both in-house and burn out or stall. Coyote's play is to let specialists do the retail while the Jets do the brand. Same applies to your brand if you're at the point where you have 50+ SKU and three people managing inventory.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/new-york-jets-coyote-promotions-2026-08-20t09-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/new-york-jets-coyote-promotions-2026-08-20t09-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/new-york-jets-coyote-promotions-2026-08-20t09-5",
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      "title": "Merchandise agency partnership signals shift from in-house to specialized retail operations.",
      "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 👇\nThe New York Jets partnered with Coyote Promotions merchandise agency to manage branded goods and retail operations, per ROI-NJ reporting on the sports partnership.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): when your merchandise or retail operation reaches 15-20% of revenue and requires its own operations team, it's time to interview agencies or fulfillment partners who can own it. You negotiate a margin-share arrangement (they take a percentage of retail sales in exchange for inventory, placement, and operations), and you shift headcount to product and marketing. The move cuts operational overhead and accelerates retail expansion because the partner has existing relationships and inventory capacity. Ask agencies about their existing retail footprint and ask for a pilot partnership on one SKU in two regions before committing the full line.\nWhat that means for you: The Jets move is not about merchandise per se—it's about recognizing that retail operations are a separate business from making the product. Most small brands try to run both in-house and burn out or stall. Coyote's play is to let specialists do the retail while the Jets do the brand. Same applies to your brand if you're at the point where you have 50+ SKU and three people managing inventory.\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 — ROI-NJ: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMisAFBVV95cUxQbXZGbVFnMUdrMXgtazVsYWtjY05lSkVmX3lvZHlkdmpCU0dzQlVWdDVwT0FCVFlpU0d2TkZBbG9EUFdVTWpvR1lOVWc1RXhLemg2c2stdlkzN3FDTmV6S1RZVi1DNVVYVEdOY05GcnUwNVdBcDh4NDlwNXlnTmY2dHdLOHg1R29kQXBRdHI0YkgyckZKekNJRGNWQkd0Qk9xLVBFeTkwbkNGUEdPUVZBUQ.)\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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