Thank you in advance for all your info!

I just bought a Crimson Pygmy Barberry (in a #2 size pot from Home Depot) today and while transporting it home a 40lb bag of compost slipped during a turn and fell on top of it and broke some of the stems. I have an idea of what I need to do to try to save the big clumps of shrub:

A) For now, trying to add some moisture to them and tape them with . . . electrical tape. . flexible and not as sticky, I think, as duct tape . . . or maybe some surgical tape from a first aid kit? I don't have any plant tape so I have to improvise.

OR

B) Other than that I'm thinking try to root the pieces that broke and grow some new bushes? Snip off the bottom leaves, add some rooting hormone to them and place them in some moist potting soil and cover with a "cloche" (uncapped and cut gallon jug or 2 liter bottle) inside or right outside in the yard dirt???

Please help and let me know if one of these is ok to do or something different?

FYI, as of the time stamp on this post, they've been broken and kinda exposed for almost 2 hours now. They aren't exposed to air because the snaps are not on the outside of the bush.

I'll try the tape or at least tying them broken pieces closed. They aren't broken apart, split and just loose but connected