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  "slug": "home-depot-2026-10-26t21-1",
  "company": "Home Depot",
  "headline": "Holiday sweater bundled $200 worth of tools at $30 — sold out in weeks",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Bundling Play}",
  "source_name": "NBC News",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Bundling Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Bundling play with viral design · Home Depot\n\nHoliday sweater bundled $200 worth of tools at $30 — sold out in weeks.\n\nThis is the anti-discount play. Home Depot didn't cut price — they reframed the purchase. A $30 sweater with tools sewn in sells better than a $30 discount code because the buyer gets a story, not a math problem. The viral piece was the sweater; the profit was the tools. Most brands reverse this and lose. Bundle the fast thing with the slow thing, price to the fast thing, and let the slow thing ride free.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/home-depot-2026-10-26t21-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/home-depot-2026-10-26t21-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/home-depot-2026-10-26t21-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Bundling Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Bundling play with viral design · Home Depot\n\nHoliday sweater bundled $200 worth of tools at $30 — sold out in weeks.\n\nThis is the anti-discount play. Home Depot didn't cut price — they reframed the purchase. A $30 sweater with tools sewn in sells better than a $30 discount code because the buyer gets a story, not a math problem. The viral piece was the sweater; the profit was the tools. Most brands reverse this and lose. Bundle the fast thing with the slow thing, price to the fast thing, and let the slow thing ride free.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/home-depot-2026-10-26t21-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/home-depot-2026-10-26t21-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/home-depot-2026-10-26t21-1",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Bundling Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Bundling play with viral design · Home Depot\n\nHoliday sweater bundled $200 worth of tools at $30 — sold out in weeks.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/home-depot-2026-10-26t21-1",
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      "title": "Holiday sweater bundled $200 worth of tools at $30 — sold out in weeks",
      "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 👇\nHome Depot packaged a holiday sweater with embedded tools (screwdrivers, wrench, tape measure sewn inside or included) at $30, creating a novelty gift that outranked traditional seasonal apparel and drove sell-through velocity reported by NBC News.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): bundle a commodity product (tools) into an entertainment wrapper (sweater). The bundle price anchors to the entertainment value, not the sum of parts. Run this week: identify your slowest-moving hardware or inventory piece, find a seasonal costume or novelty garment that fits the buyer, price the bundle 15–20% below the standalone costs, and call it a gift set. The bundle creates urgency because the costume has a season; the tools inside don't.\nWhat that means for you: This is the anti-discount play. Home Depot didn't cut price — they reframed the purchase. A $30 sweater with tools sewn in sells better than a $30 discount code because the buyer gets a story, not a math problem. The viral piece was the sweater; the profit was the tools. Most brands reverse this and lose. Bundle the fast thing with the slow thing, price to the fast thing, and let the slow thing ride free.\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 — NBC News: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiigFBVV95cUxNdkYwTVk2Z000QlJBVXd0bkFpYWZzckVKSWpaeVdGR3VPbE9CM2dra3JCVmU0YlprUHg0T083X2lvX2NZZUVaNUtWbkVsMUs1RlZxNUUySGRJMi00emNtS2FGZGtaU0tGWEFDOUd2SDZadUNvX0xyYVVjN3ItZjJUUTFDTW9YRjE1VUE?oc=5.)\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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