{"id":184,"date":"2006-10-28T06:54:26","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T14:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/business-success\/a-spicy-idea"},"modified":"2006-10-28T06:54:26","modified_gmt":"2006-10-28T14:54:26","slug":"a-spicy-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"A Spicy Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How old are those bottles of spices in your cupboard?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/279456353\/Spices.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Spices\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/95\/279456353_083f63795f_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Did you know that they get old and lose there flavor?  A few years ago we started to once a year write the year of purchase on the top of each jar.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/279456406\/Spice_Tops.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Spice Tops\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/119\/279456406_2ac069ec2a_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">After they are two years we throw them away.  Wouldn&#8217;t it benefit us all if the spice companies would put an expiration date on their bottles?  Why don&#8217;t they?  It seems like a really good product differentiation idea that could  command a premium price.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Thanks to Nurit for this idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How old are those bottles of spices in your cupboard? Did you know that they get old and lose there flavor? A few years ago we started to once a year write the year of purchase on the top of each jar. After they are two years we throw them away. Wouldn&#8217;t it benefit us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-success"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-2Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}