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"I do wonder How a good story taste?" When I was a bartender if we had a wine that wasn't selling we'd do two things: raise the price and improve the story aro
by lemonberry 2y ago
"I do wonder How a good story taste?"
When I was a bartender if we had a wine that wasn't selling we'd do two things: raise the price and improve the story around it. The story involved researching the vineyard, the wine maker, and the grapes involved in the wine. Once the staff has the story then it's easy to sell it.
People are very gullible. About a lot of things. It's especially comical with wine because a lot of people are convinced they're super tasters.
Raising the price is an easy win. There's always some guy saying, "you get what you pay for!" as if wine were priced on it's taste or quality.
My experience as a bartender and a bachelors in philosophy have given me great appreciation for cognitive biases.
- hammock 2y agoJust give me the cheapest wine that’s single-origin and not loaded with mega purple
- jfengel 2y agoWe pay for stories all the time. It's entertainment. Your beverages are also a form of entertainment. I'm OK with paying more for a wine that comes with a good story. It does have a different effect on me than one without, even if the chemical makeup is identical. I probably won't buy it more than once -- but I might, if the story resonates especially well.
- DontchaKnowit 2y agoReally Id just feel annoyed that the bartender was wasting my time and feel socially obligated to buy the wine after he just spent so much time bloviating about it.
- ahmeneeroe-v2 2y agoThe price thing is probably a cognitive bias but not really the story thing. People go to a bar for a good time. If you took the time to tell them a story about a wine, they probably had a good time hearing about that and were willing to pay to continue participating in that story. I'm laughing that you're citing your philosophy degree and seem to have missed the boat about people searching for meaning in their life, jumping straight to cognitive biases (which aren't even a philosophical subject).