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  "company": "QSIC",
  "headline": "In-store audio platform brings performance measurement to retail media.",
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  "source_name": "Business Insider",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · Retail media attribution · QSIC\n\nIn-store audio platform brings performance measurement to retail media.\n\nin-store audio is the cheapest media channel most brands ignore because it felt unmeasurable. QSIC solved that. The play is to take a brand with high foot traffic in a single retail chain (Whole Foods, Target, Kroger) and run a 4-week audio test promoting one SKU at checkout during peak hours (5–7 p.m., weekends). Pair it with a small display. Track uplift per hour. If a single message drives a 12%+ lift in that SKU, scale the message to other stores. Cost per test: $2K–$5K. Typical ROI: 3–5x in the first month.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/qsic-2026-06-12t15-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/qsic-2026-06-12t15-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/qsic-2026-06-12t15-5",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ STEEL · Retail media attribution · QSIC\n\nIn-store audio platform brings performance measurement to retail media.\n\nin-store audio is the cheapest media channel most brands ignore because it felt unmeasurable. QSIC solved that. The play is to take a brand with high foot traffic in a single retail chain (Whole Foods, Target, Kroger) and run a 4-week audio test promoting one SKU at checkout during peak hours (5–7 p.m., weekends). Pair it with a small display. Track uplift per hour. If a single message drives a 12%+ lift in that SKU, scale the message to other stores. Cost per test: $2K–$5K. Typical ROI: 3–5x in the first month.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/qsic-2026-06-12t15-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/qsic-2026-06-12t15-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/qsic-2026-06-12t15-5",
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      "title": "In-store audio platform brings performance measurement to retail media.",
      "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 Business Insider, QSIC announced a performance measurement framework for in-store retail media, addressing years of fragmentation and lack of transparency in audio-based in-store campaigns.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): in-store audio is the cheapest media channel most brands ignore because it felt unmeasurable. QSIC solved that. The play is to take a brand with high foot traffic in a single retail chain (Whole Foods, Target, Kroger) and run a 4-week audio test promoting one SKU at checkout during peak hours (5–7 p.m., weekends). Pair it with a small display. Track uplift per hour. If a single message drives a 12%+ lift in that SKU, scale the message to other stores. Cost per test: $2K–$5K. Typical ROI: 3–5x in the first month.\nWhat that means for you: in-store audio is the cheapest media channel most brands ignore because it felt unmeasurable. QSIC solved that. The play is to take a brand with high foot traffic in a single retail chain (Whole Foods, Target, Kroger) and run a 4-week audio test promoting one SKU at checkout during peak hours (5–7 p.m., weekends). Pair it with a small display. Track uplift per hour. If a single message drives a 12%+ lift in that SKU, scale the message to other stores. Cost per test: $2K–$5K. Typical ROI: 3–5x in the first month.\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 — Business Insider: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/qsic-sets-a-new-standard-for-in-store-retail-media-bringing-performance-measurement-to-every-channel-1036194329.)\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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