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  "headline": "Nike and Lululemon face lawsuits alleging deceptive phantom discounts, per Digiday.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Pricing strategy litigation · Nike and Lululemon\n\nNike and Lululemon face lawsuits alleging deceptive phantom discounts, per Digiday.\n\nPhantom discounts feel like free money until a lawyer reads your pricing history and sees the original MSRP never actually sold. Nike and Lululemon got caught because they are big enough to attract litigation. Smaller brands should treat this as a warning: pricing transparency is coming. Be honest about discounts or don't offer them.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/nike-and-lululemon-2026-08-02t03-6\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/nike-and-lululemon-2026-08-02t03-6\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/nike-and-lululemon-2026-08-02t03-6",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Pricing strategy litigation · Nike and Lululemon\n\nNike and Lululemon face lawsuits alleging deceptive phantom discounts, per Digiday.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/nike-and-lululemon-2026-08-02t03-6",
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      "title": "Nike and Lululemon face lawsuits alleging deceptive phantom discounts, per Digiday.",
      "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 👇\nDigiday reported that Nike and Lululemon have been sued in recent weeks alleging deceptive pricing strategies, specifically phantom discounts where prices are artificially inflated before being marked down.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if your brand is running discounts, document the original price justification. Never inflate a price with the intent to discount it immediately after. If you are testing a discount strategy, ensure the original price reflects actual historical selling price or genuine cost basis. Track and save: original price, date it was set, and justification. The brands getting sued did not think anyone would audit their pricing history. They were wrong. A simple pricing changelog document — dated, signed, stored — is your defense.\nWhat that means for you: Phantom discounts feel like free money until a lawyer reads your pricing history and sees the original MSRP never actually sold. Nike and Lululemon got caught because they are big enough to attract litigation. Smaller brands should treat this as a warning: pricing transparency is coming. Be honest about discounts or don't offer them.\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 — Digiday: https://digiday.com/marketing/nike-lululemon-hit-with-lawsuits-alleging-deceptive-phantom-discounts/.)\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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