Noticed some listings charge a premium tied to featuring a specific harvester's story/photo alongside the product. is is that adding real value or just a content marketing upsell dressed as ethics.
if its genuinely tied to direct, verifiable payment to that specific harvester for that specific batch, thats a real value proposition. if it's just a photo and a name with no actual payment structure behind it, that's storytelling, not sourcing
This is basically the same test as everything else on this forum, is there a paper trail behind the story or is the story doing all the work by itself.
Yeah at this point Im noticing every pricing thread here ends at "ask for the paperwork" one way or another.
Honestly that's probaly just the correct answer at this point lol