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Home Depot appliance & lumber price panel

Price of a fixed basket of major appliances (washer/dryer/fridge model numbers) and framing lumber (2x4x8) SKUs

Feed detail
Measures
Price of a fixed basket of major appliances (washer/dryer/fridge model numbers) and framing lumber (2x4x8) SKUs
Source
homedepot.com product API (unofficial GraphQL) by store/zip
Access
json-api
Cadence
dailyupdates once a day
Thesis
Lumber and major-appliance retail pricing are sensitive to both commodity input costs (lumber futures) and tariff/supply shocks, giving an early read on durable-goods and shelter-adjacent (new construction) cost pressure
Maps to
CPI Major Appliances, home construction cost inflation
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tC
Ban-risk
ban:high
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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