A new bar in Qingdao, China is making drinking beer feel like trading on Wall Street. At the Qingdao Beer Exchange, the prices of different beers go up and down all day based on what customers are buying. A big circular screen above the bar shows live prices and sales numbers, just like you’d see at a stock market. When lots of people buy a certain beer, its price goes up and shows in red. When fewer people want a beer, the price drops and shows in blue. The prices can only change by 10 percent each day so things don’t get too crazy.
Every night, all the beer prices reset back to their starting amounts, and once a week the bar looks at which beers sold the most and might lower their base prices or let them swing up and down by 20 percent instead. The owner got the idea after seeing beer machines in other Chinese cities and wanted to make them more fun and interactive. Since opening in May, hundreds of thousands of people have tried this beer trading experience where they scan codes, pour their own drinks, and watch how their purchase changes the market right away.
Source: Oddity Central
