Suggestion for tea name when it contains a year for everyone
As I was searching for a tea, I came across 10 others just like it, but for other years. While I understand that it can change from year to year, this is the same for all tea. Even Lipton, with its potential hundreds of different blends to get the exact flavor, can change from year to year due to this.
Instead of making a different one for each year, can I suggest we do one and then just mark our year at the top of our posts?
It would be nice if we could create one main tea and then subcategories of years within it :D
This has been heavily debated in the past, and overall the general consensus is that it’s more preferable for the majority of consumers and companies to have them as separate listings.
For example, a company might be selling multiple years of the “same tea” at the same time and from their POV those are two separate products that could retail for different prices, have different product copy, slightly different origin or harvest information, different packaging, etc…
From a consumer standpoint, often times people also own the tea from multiple years and want to track them separately for a variety of reasons: accuracy in stash count, different years have different ratings based on factors like harvest conditions, etc…
Basically, the general rule of thumb when it comes to creating tea pages seems to be that you mirror how the company treats their own product. So, for example with Lipton, even though there are minute differences between harvests/years of production they are aiming for consistency in taste and trying to source/blend so that there’s no perceivable consumer end difference from lot to lot. Someone like white2tea or Bitterleaf actively markets different year’s harvests as unique products and often speak to the differences from year over year.
Key difference in approach.
So a few years ago I was thinking along the lines of Skysamurai, but then started having thoughts akin to Roswell Strange’s and ultimately decided not to pursue the issue as I saw value in the information.
That makes sense. I agree with that in “mirror how the company treats their own product”
I do think this gets a bit confusing and I wish there were a way we could nest all of the same in a particular way but perhaps that would be too much XD
Yeah, in a perfect world Steepster would gave continued backend development to be more optimized for these scenarios. Like, “umbrella” pages to house different year’s productions or when a tea company updates the recipe or name of a tea/blend.
Sadly we’re just left to work with what we have.
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