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  "slug": "nike-lululemon-2026-08-02t21-6",
  "company": "Nike, Lululemon",
  "headline": "Major brands hit with deceptive pricing lawsuits over phantom discounts.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}",
  "source_name": "Digiday",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Pricing litigation across major brands · Nike, Lululemon\n\nMajor brands hit with deceptive pricing lawsuits over phantom discounts.\n\nif you use a strike-through price, the original price must have been the actual selling price for at least 28 days (FTC standard). Do not show a higher list price for the sake of a bigger discount visual. Measure discount legitimacy, not just discount depth. The move: audit your entire product catalog. If a SKU has never sold at the higher price, remove the strike-through. Test 'regular price' messaging instead of 'was $X' messaging. You will likely see a small drop in conversion, but you avoid litigation and maintain trust. One lawsuit costs more than the conversion uplift you gained from phantom discounts.\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-lululemon-2026-08-02t21-6\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/nike-lululemon-2026-08-02t21-6\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/nike-lululemon-2026-08-02t21-6",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ GRAPHITE · Pricing litigation across major brands · Nike, Lululemon\n\nMajor brands hit with deceptive pricing lawsuits over phantom discounts.\n\nif you use a strike-through price, the original price must have been the actual selling price for at least 28 days (FTC standard). Do not show a higher list price for the sake of a bigger discount visual. Measure discount legitimacy, not just discount depth. The move: audit your entire product catalog. If a SKU has never sold at the higher price, remove the strike-through. Test 'regular price' messaging instead of 'was $X' messaging. You will likely see a small drop in conversion, but you avoid litigation and maintain trust. One lawsuit costs more than the conversion uplift you gained from phantom discounts.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/nike-lululemon-2026-08-02t21-6\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/nike-lululemon-2026-08-02t21-6\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/nike-lululemon-2026-08-02t21-6",
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      "title": "Major brands hit with deceptive pricing lawsuits over phantom discounts.",
      "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 were hit with lawsuits alleging deceptive pricing strategies through phantom discounts — a pattern now affecting major global brands.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if you use a strike-through price, the original price must have been the actual selling price for at least 28 days (FTC standard). Do not show a higher list price for the sake of a bigger discount visual. Measure discount legitimacy, not just discount depth. The move: audit your entire product catalog. If a SKU has never sold at the higher price, remove the strike-through. Test 'regular price' messaging instead of 'was $X' messaging. You will likely see a small drop in conversion, but you avoid litigation and maintain trust. One lawsuit costs more than the conversion uplift you gained from phantom discounts.\nWhat that means for you: if you use a strike-through price, the original price must have been the actual selling price for at least 28 days (FTC standard). Do not show a higher list price for the sake of a bigger discount visual. Measure discount legitimacy, not just discount depth. The move: audit your entire product catalog. If a SKU has never sold at the higher price, remove the strike-through. Test 'regular price' messaging instead of 'was $X' messaging. You will likely see a small drop in conversion, but you avoid litigation and maintain trust. One lawsuit costs more than the conversion uplift you gained from phantom discounts.\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/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=general-rss.)\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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