Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad

lung@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• tyler@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hawaiian coffee is $25 a pound, at least it was when I bought some there a few years ago

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  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Soon that’ll be the cheapest you can get it

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    • bradv@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And that’s how tariffs work

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    • schnokobaer@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’ll rise with the rest, or does anyone believe a premium brand would just omit a general price increase among virtually all competitors and become a brand anyone can afford? Especially since Hawaiian coffee is majorly limited in supply.

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      • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Right, I’m saying $25 will be the floor for coffee that’s currently $6, not that $25 coffee will be unaffected by the market

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      until the demand for it skyrockets.

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  • pomfegranate@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Lived in Hawaii most of my life: the big name coffees from here are terrible and only have that insane price because it’s from Hawaii. Though there are some small local roasters here

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  • frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Kauai Coffee is a relatively large operation that exports to the continental US and is more like $9 retail (and perpetually on sale for $7.50 or so) for a 10oz bag in the grocery store.

    It’s not cheap coffee, but it’s certainly not top of the line priced coffee.

    They do make some coffees that are more than $25/lb, but not the "regular* stuff people would buy in a store.

    Of course I agree that their price will go up with the market with tariffs introduced, and that in general the tariffs are a terrible, terrible idea.

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• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Unfortunately the Jones Act means shipping from Hawaii to the continental US requires the use of a shipping vessel constructed in the US, flying the US flag, and entirely crewed by US citizens which makes the shipping costs expensive as fuck.

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  • droporain@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We should just put a tarrif on all other imports 😂😂😂 🤡

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• hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hawaii is wayyyy too small to meet the coffee demands of a country as big as the US.

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  • lung@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is factually accurate by a several orders of magnitude

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