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  "headline": "Major soda brands updating packaging to include QR codes for regulatory and consumer engagement",
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  "source_name": "MSN / NBC News",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Packaging Play}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Industry-wide packaging update pattern · PepsiCo / Coca-Cola / Keurig Dr Pepper\n\nMajor soda brands updating packaging to include QR codes for regulatory and consumer engagement.\n\nif you're a beverage brand selling into the same channels as Coke or Pepsi, assume your retailer will soon require QR codes on your label to maintain shelf compliance. Get ahead by incorporating the code into your next reprint cycle, even if it's not mandatory yet. Your label will look current next to the giants', and you'll avoid emergency reprints in early 2027. Don't add the QR code as an afterthought; design the label with the code in mind—it's part of the visual hierarchy now.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/pepsico-coca-cola-keurig-dr-pepper-2026-08-20t15-6\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/pepsico-coca-cola-keurig-dr-pepper-2026-08-20t15-6\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/pepsico-coca-cola-keurig-dr-pepper-2026-08-20t15-6",
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      "title": "Major soda brands updating packaging to include QR codes for regulatory and consumer engagement",
      "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 👇\nPer NBC News cited by MSN, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, and Keurig Dr Pepper are all updating soda packaging to include QR codes, signaling an industry-wide shift toward connected packaging and likely driven by Sunrise 2027 regulatory requirements.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if you're a beverage brand selling into the same channels as Coke or Pepsi, assume your retailer will soon require QR codes on your label to maintain shelf compliance. Get ahead by incorporating the code into your next reprint cycle, even if it's not mandatory yet. Your label will look current next to the giants', and you'll avoid emergency reprints in early 2027. Don't add the QR code as an afterthought; design the label with the code in mind—it's part of the visual hierarchy now.\nWhat that means for you: if you're a beverage brand selling into the same channels as Coke or Pepsi, assume your retailer will soon require QR codes on your label to maintain shelf compliance. Get ahead by incorporating the code into your next reprint cycle, even if it's not mandatory yet. Your label will look current next to the giants', and you'll avoid emergency reprints in early 2027. Don't add the QR code as an afterthought; design the label with the code in mind—it's part of the visual hierarchy now.\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 — MSN / NBC News: https://www.msn.com/en-us/food-and-drink/beverages/major-soda-brands-to-update-packaging-to-include-qr-codes-here-s-why/ar-AA26njCZ.)\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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