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  "headline": "July same-store sales rose 3.3% YoY; average price per top item up 1.7%.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ STEEL · Retail pricing power · NRS Insights\n\nJuly same-store sales rose 3.3% YoY; average price per top item up 1.7%.\n\nPricing is the conversation every DTC brand is afraid to have. This data says: stop being afraid. Top retailers just proved they can raise price and keep volume. The margin is there. If you ship a physical product with repeat customers, you have more pricing power than you think. Test a $1-2 raise on your core item and watch the repeat rate — don't just assume it will tank.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/nrs-insights-2026-08-31t03-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/nrs-insights-2026-08-31t03-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/nrs-insights-2026-08-31t03-5",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ STEEL · Retail pricing power · NRS Insights\n\nJuly same-store sales rose 3.3% YoY; average price per top item up 1.7%.\n\nPricing is the conversation every DTC brand is afraid to have. This data says: stop being afraid. Top retailers just proved they can raise price and keep volume. The margin is there. If you ship a physical product with repeat customers, you have more pricing power than you think. Test a $1-2 raise on your core item and watch the repeat rate — don't just assume it will tank.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/nrs-insights-2026-08-31t03-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/nrs-insights-2026-08-31t03-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/nrs-insights-2026-08-31t03-5",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ STEEL · Retail pricing power · NRS Insights\n\nJuly same-store sales rose 3.3% YoY; average price per top item up 1.7%.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/nrs-insights-2026-08-31t03-5",
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      "title": "July same-store sales rose 3.3% YoY; average price per top item up 1.7%.",
      "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 👇\nNRS Insights' July 2026 Retail Same-Store Sales Report documented July same-store sales increased 3.3% year-over-year, with the average price paid for top 500 items up 1.7% year-over-year, per NRS Insights.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): the data shows pricing power persists in core categories. A 3.3% lift in same-store sales with only 1.7% price increase means volume grew roughly 1.5% — retailers gained traffic while raising price. For a brand in the top 500: test a modest price increase on your core SKU and monitor repeat-purchase rate. If the data supports pricing power in your category, you have permission to raise. The market is absorbing price. Move cautiously; test in one region first.\nWhat that means for you: Pricing is the conversation every DTC brand is afraid to have. This data says: stop being afraid. Top retailers just proved they can raise price and keep volume. The margin is there. If you ship a physical product with repeat customers, you have more pricing power than you think. Test a $1-2 raise on your core item and watch the repeat rate — don't just assume it will tank.\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 — NRS Insights: http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a94ee6f6d1d4d85a32b4eba8d761c3a&url=https%3a%2f%2fmarkets.businessinsider.com%2fnews%2fstocks%2fnrsinsights-july-2026-retail-same-store-sales-report-1036435597&c=11445125985727155235&mkt=en-us.)\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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