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  "company": "Procter & Gamble",
  "headline": "Innovation-led pricing on Tide and Pampers held margin as shoppers resisted price hikes.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}",
  "source_name": "Yahoo Finance",
  "source_url": "https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/procter-gambles-pricing-strategy-sustain-163500948.html",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Product improvement pricing justification · Procter & Gamble\n\nInnovation-led pricing on Tide and Pampers held margin as shoppers resisted price hikes.\n\ndo not raise price on your existing SKU. Instead, reformulate or improve one attribute (packaging durability, ingredient sourcing, performance metric) in 6–8 weeks, name the change, and announce the new version at the higher price point. Grandfather the old SKU for 2–3 weeks at the old price, then discontinue it. Buyers perceive the old SKU as 'budget' and the new as 'premium,' even though the cost difference to you is 8–12%. This play works on any consumable category.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/procter-gamble-2026-06-02t21-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/procter-gamble-2026-06-02t21-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/procter-gamble-2026-06-02t21-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Product improvement pricing justification · Procter & Gamble\n\nInnovation-led pricing on Tide and Pampers held margin as shoppers resisted price hikes.\n\ndo not raise price on your existing SKU. Instead, reformulate or improve one attribute (packaging durability, ingredient sourcing, performance metric) in 6–8 weeks, name the change, and announce the new version at the higher price point. Grandfather the old SKU for 2–3 weeks at the old price, then discontinue it. Buyers perceive the old SKU as 'budget' and the new as 'premium,' even though the cost difference to you is 8–12%. This play works on any consumable category.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/procter-gamble-2026-06-02t21-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/procter-gamble-2026-06-02t21-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/procter-gamble-2026-06-02t21-2",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Product improvement pricing justification · Procter & Gamble\n\nInnovation-led pricing on Tide and Pampers held margin as shoppers resisted price hikes.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/procter-gamble-2026-06-02t21-2",
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      "title": "Innovation-led pricing on Tide and Pampers held margin as shoppers resisted price hikes.",
      "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 Yahoo Finance, P&G sustained 2026 growth projections by linking price increases to documented product innovation—new formulations in Tide, improved absorbency in Pampers—rather than raising prices on static SKUs.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): do not raise price on your existing SKU. Instead, reformulate or improve one attribute (packaging durability, ingredient sourcing, performance metric) in 6–8 weeks, name the change, and announce the new version at the higher price point. Grandfather the old SKU for 2–3 weeks at the old price, then discontinue it. Buyers perceive the old SKU as 'budget' and the new as 'premium,' even though the cost difference to you is 8–12%. This play works on any consumable category.\nWhat that means for you: do not raise price on your existing SKU. Instead, reformulate or improve one attribute (packaging durability, ingredient sourcing, performance metric) in 6–8 weeks, name the change, and announce the new version at the higher price point. Grandfather the old SKU for 2–3 weeks at the old price, then discontinue it. Buyers perceive the old SKU as 'budget' and the new as 'premium,' even though the cost difference to you is 8–12%. This play works on any consumable category.\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 — Yahoo Finance: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/procter-gambles-pricing-strategy-sustain-163500948.html.)\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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