{"id":7936,"date":"2016-02-06T22:44:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T06:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=7936"},"modified":"2016-02-06T22:44:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T06:44:40","slug":"paying-more-for-items-that-are-considered-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/paying-more-for-items-that-are-considered-lucky\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying More For Items That Are Considered Lucky"},"content":{"rendered":"

While browsing around today I say that in this one grocery store that it was selling a lot of Chinese New Year themed items. In this case, I saw these \u201cLucky Mandarin Oranges\u201d that were selling for $1.99 a pound. That is pretty costly compared to just buying some regular Mandarin oranges. Especially at this time where everyone seems to be carrying the item. It made me think from a business point of view on how easy it is for people to slap a premium price on its product by labeling it as luck.<\/p>\n

To me anyways, it seems like you can classify almost everything as lucky to a certain extent whether it be a result of how a certain color is supposed to make things lucky or how some kind of numerical figure and its arrangement creates good fortune. I guess business wise this should make you wonder if you should always be playing into these superstitions as way to create more value for your products.<\/p>\n

As a consumer though this is where product knowledge plays a role in helping you to save money. In cases like these, I am inclined to strip the item down to its basic to see just how much of a premium I am paying for the marketing in a sense. With this funny example, I think I feel luckier getting it for free in this case:<\/p>\n

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While browsing around today I say that in this one grocery store that it was selling a lot of Chinese New Year themed items. In this case, I saw these \u201cLucky Mandarin Oranges\u201d that were selling for $1.99 a pound. That is pretty costly compared to just buying some regular Mandarin oranges. Especially at this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[5953,6217,4731,6218],"class_list":["post-7936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business","tag-lucky","tag-mandarin-oranges","tag-superstition-chinese-new-years"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/luckyoranges.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-240","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7939,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions\/7939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}