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  "company": "Nest New York",
  "headline": "Bestselling Holiday candle expanded into fine fragrance, per Modern Retail.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Brand-Story Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Line extension from core SKU · Nest New York\n\nBestselling Holiday candle expanded into fine fragrance, per Modern Retail.\n\nThis is the move brands sleep on because it feels too obvious. The hard part is not finding the new format — it's resisting the urge to create something 'new.' Nest's move is almost boring: take what works, put it in a different bottle, charge more. The beauty is that the scent story is already done. The marketing writes itself. You're not convincing anyone the scent is good; you're telling them where else to buy it. Most operators get stuck trying to invent instead of extending.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/nest-new-york-2026-10-05t18-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/nest-new-york-2026-10-05t18-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/nest-new-york-2026-10-05t18-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Brand-Story Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Line extension from core SKU · Nest New York\n\nBestselling Holiday candle expanded into fine fragrance, per Modern Retail.\n\nThis is the move brands sleep on because it feels too obvious. The hard part is not finding the new format — it's resisting the urge to create something 'new.' Nest's move is almost boring: take what works, put it in a different bottle, charge more. The beauty is that the scent story is already done. The marketing writes itself. You're not convincing anyone the scent is good; you're telling them where else to buy it. Most operators get stuck trying to invent instead of extending.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/nest-new-york-2026-10-05t18-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/nest-new-york-2026-10-05t18-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/nest-new-york-2026-10-05t18-2",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Brand-Story Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Line extension from core SKU · Nest New York\n\nBestselling Holiday candle expanded into fine fragrance, per Modern Retail.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/nest-new-york-2026-10-05t18-2",
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      "title": "Bestselling Holiday candle expanded into fine fragrance, per Modern Retail.",
      "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 👇\nNest converted its bestselling Holiday candle into a fine fragrance called Wonder, scaling a proven product into a higher-margin category.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): your top SKU is permission to enter a new category. Don't waste cycles on scent development when your best-selling product is already vetted by customers. Take the exact product that moves the most volume, find the adjacent format that the same customer might buy at a higher price point, and extend. For Nest, that's the difference between a $45 candle and a $80+ fragrance. The customer already chose you for that scent; they just didn't know they could wear it. Map your top five SKUs right now and ask: what adjacent format sits next to this in a store or online, and what price point does it command?\nWhat that means for you: This is the move brands sleep on because it feels too obvious. The hard part is not finding the new format — it's resisting the urge to create something 'new.' Nest's move is almost boring: take what works, put it in a different bottle, charge more. The beauty is that the scent story is already done. The marketing writes itself. You're not convincing anyone the scent is good; you're telling them where else to buy it. Most operators get stuck trying to invent instead of extending.\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 — Modern Retail: https://www.modernretail.co/operations/why-nest-new-york-is-turning-its-bestselling-holiday-candle-into-fine-fragrance/?utm_campaign=modernretaildis&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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