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  "slug": "mountain-dew-2026-07-02t00-2",
  "company": "Mountain Dew",
  "headline": "Limited-edition commemorative cans sold for 5 cents to mark 80 years.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Scarcity & Drops}",
  "source_name": "PR Newswire",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Scarcity & Drops}\n◆ PLATINUM · Scarcity pricing and collectible bundling · Mountain Dew\n\nLimited-edition commemorative cans sold for 5 cents to mark 80 years.\n\nMost brands are scared to price that low because they think about unit margin. Mountain Dew priced for the story, not the margin. The five-cent bundle is a paid collectible—people bought the permission to own a piece of brand history. The real win is that buyers will talk about a five-cent purchase for years. That's not margin; that's earned media with a receipt.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/mountain-dew-2026-07-02t00-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/mountain-dew-2026-07-02t00-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/mountain-dew-2026-07-02t00-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Scarcity & Drops}\n◆ PLATINUM · Scarcity pricing and collectible bundling · Mountain Dew\n\nLimited-edition commemorative cans sold for 5 cents to mark 80 years.\n\nMost brands are scared to price that low because they think about unit margin. Mountain Dew priced for the story, not the margin. The five-cent bundle is a paid collectible—people bought the permission to own a piece of brand history. The real win is that buyers will talk about a five-cent purchase for years. That's not margin; that's earned media with a receipt.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/mountain-dew-2026-07-02t00-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/mountain-dew-2026-07-02t00-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/mountain-dew-2026-07-02t00-2",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Scarcity & Drops}\n◆ PLATINUM · Scarcity pricing and collectible bundling · Mountain Dew\n\nLimited-edition commemorative cans sold for 5 cents to mark 80 years.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/mountain-dew-2026-07-02t00-2",
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      "title": "Limited-edition commemorative cans sold for 5 cents to mark 80 years.",
      "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 PR Newswire, Mountain Dew sold limited-edition commemorative can bundles for five cents each as part of an 80-year anniversary campaign, creating urgency through extreme scarcity and brand-story pricing.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): price a limited drop low enough that it signals 'this will never come back.' Five cents removes price objection entirely and shifts the buyer's anxiety from 'is this worth it?' to 'will I get one?' Pair extreme scarcity with a story (anniversary, founding date, regional debut) and the drop becomes a must-own moment. Run a 48-hour drop of a single limited-edition unit (or bundle) at a loss-leader price point tied to your brand's origin story, cap units at 200–500, announce the cutoff publicly, and ship within 7 days to cement the artifact value.\nWhat that means for you: Most brands are scared to price that low because they think about unit margin. Mountain Dew priced for the story, not the margin. The five-cent bundle is a paid collectible—people bought the permission to own a piece of brand history. The real win is that buyers will talk about a five-cent purchase for years. That's not margin; that's earned media with a receipt.\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 — PR Newswire: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMijwJBVV95cUxNVEgyRS15bndWNmhfV1ZiQmpKMk9sWC0yYWVyMldhTV9oZUMyZHpzamZXTkdiWVpDVHRpaHhkRTlfLVBVNzFWbW1ndzh1NllVdWNTcG1pZm4wT3duenRVbTluVXZJVzd5UGlkWjZjd29WNjZnSkpndFZodjhzUjFCUk1pQUpxVFhaQXI0ZlU5VXNSXzlfdV81ZFhxM0l0bTVPeDdpTTV6Zk1NRWJycXJPc1pUaXNvYmxGdlF5em8yWVo1TzlNbGpBOF9IcGl2RXFUbHZDR1ZKa2xKLUtpeHZoNkI4Tnl4WmoxeWZvTnJZNXRsdnhobVJJYUdYWkdWRW9CNTd2M1UzY29jZ0o1Q01v?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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