Coffee prices will continue to go up; most people do not realize that already today climate collapse is responsible for part of the inflation. Coffee and chocolate plantations are suffering from erratic weather and droughts. In addition, demand for coffee is continuously increasing too; but overall all crops are suffering from lower productivity, so food will get more and more expensive… even if we manage to not pass the 2.5C global heating.
This drip coffee is now $5 dollars, up from $2.50 3 years ago
Submitted 2 days ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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notsosure@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
The price of coffee in a cafe has fuck all to do with coffee prices.
Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Let me think about this.
Sure does. They would lose money if the cost of the beans was more expensive than the coffee.
kettuli@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Small scale growers/roasters have had 0% pressure to increase prices as their business does not rely on Brazilian hektofarms. You can get vastly better coffee at a comparative price if you care about the taste of your coffee.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s actually worse here, prices on ground coffee have more than tripled since 3 years ago.
Back the we could get a 500g pack for a little less than $3.50 USD, now we get only 400g for $10, when on special offer you may be lucky to find it at $7.
So needless to say I always buy several bags when it’s on special offer. But even then it’s more than twice the price of 3 years ago.bigboismith@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This picture is from a couple of days ago in Finland
No, I wasn’t brave enough to buy it, I have no idea how they can sell it so cheap
Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I would absolutely read the table of content, but I agree that price is insane.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You’ve got coffee shrinkflation? In Germany it’s still 500 grams, but expensive, of course. I only buy the brands that are on offer.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yes we have shrinkflation on coffee, we used to have 400g packages special roast that they claimed could be used to make as many cups of coffee as a 500g, but of course that’s bullshit, and it taste worse IMO.
creamfresh@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And coffee is still way too cheap.
arotrios@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There’s really no value in going to a coffee shop any more unless its to socialize, and the social element is dying by design. The coffee quality is never better than you can make at home for a tenth of the price, and most places are now redesigning their interiors so that they encourage people to move on, not hang out.
I mean look at the chair in OP’s pick - sit on that for more than 10 minutes and you’re going to have a crimp in your back. That’s an intentional design element to keep you moving and not taking up space for new customers.
You give me a coffee shop with big ass sofas and a piano and chess sets and wifi and I’ll gladly pay $5 a cup to hang out. I’ll probably end up spending another $20 while I’m there. But the coffee alone just ain’t worth it.
johntitor1949@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Totally agree. There’s one or two privately owned coffee shops that still have tables and chairs made for sitting and doing things at.
Forget it with any of the big chains. I’m halfway expecting some anti-homeless architecture on their small ass stools next time I’m there…which won’t be ever since they priced me out.
creamfresh@lemmy.world 2 days ago
When where coffee shops solely about the coffee?
slickgoat@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Not to be that guy, but we have been under-paying for coffee for many years now. The price of beans kept going up, but customers were locked into what a cup of coffee should be and extremely price sensitive about addressing the reality.
A catch-up is underway all over the world.
Note. Not a cafe owner and I don’t have anything to do with coffee except drink it.
Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Costco large bag of whole lighter roast beans with a good grinder gets a pretty good price and quality.
slickgoat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Possibly, but the OP was talking about sitting in a cafe, not brewing at home.
At a cafe you have overheads, staff, cleaning, etc. Plus the rising cost of beans. All I’m saying is that cafes can’t freeze the price of coffee to a past point in time because customers have a fixed idea of what a brew should cost.
clifmo@programming.dev 2 days ago
Local coffee shop here is also a roaster and a helping hands non-profit. Even years ago the price of a cup was too much for me to spare, so I’ve always opted for their beans. The have a subscription with a slight discount and recently started selling 5-pound bags so my price per ounce is even lower than it was in the past. One of the few thing that hasn’t gone up.
duckshuffgoose@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Not defending the price of a cup of coffee at all, but as someone who roasts their own coffee (both cause I love the process and am a cheap bastard), its only fair to point out the price of green beans is almost exactly double the price it was 3 years ago.
Again, plenty of ways to slice the astronomic price, but at the end of the day I would only half blame the restaurant here on the mark up
jdr@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Maiq@piefed.zip 2 days ago
Used to sit and drink coffee and talk to friends for hours at the small town diner for 52¢, bottomless.
BigPotato@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I try to reduce my coffee/caffeine consumption but if I get a coffee at a diner, you’d better believe I’m slamming five or more.
Hoimo@ani.social 2 days ago
That’s the stuff they serve for free after every church service. Just bring a thermos and ask them to fill 'er up.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’ll just make some at home, but thanks. Nice try, though.
lokalhorst@feddit.org 2 days ago
What is church service, is that when Christians visit church on sundays?
Hoimo@ani.social 2 days ago
A church service is the unit of church. Most of them will occur on Sundays, but there could be multiple spread over the day. Check your local church schedule and sneak in at the end of the service.
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 2 days ago
$2.50 for that was nuts to begin with.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
In my country, this is about 15-20 cents per sachet, imported from Indonesia. It is cheap and processed, but hot and available at any roadside stand to go along with a bread roll, crackers, or a cigarette.
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Heavy tariffs, I presume?
Not likely, just campitalism doing it’s thing. If people buy it at ~$1 each, they’ll sell it for that, and try to raise the price again next year.
THB@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So many things are getting harder to justify buying these days. Definitely been going out less in general. :(
1984@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I stopped drinking coffee when it became too expensive. Problem solved. :)
sanitation@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Remember when everyone was buying those Keurig cups? So crazy they were like 80 cents a cup just get yourself coffee at Dunkin at that point
1984@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Yeah people seem to be OK with paying a lot for their coffee it seems… :)
I mean, I kind of understand it. When I was working, i was rewarding myself with nice coffee, just to have something nice during the day…
OakTree@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Just get a knockoff plastic cup that fits in there. I refill that thing with coffee grounds 3 time a day for probably less than a dollar
Sibshops@feddit.cl 2 days ago
Meanwhile, I can get 100 black teabags for like 5 dollars.
huppakee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s a large part lower yields because of drought, a part increased demand (especially from Asia) and a bonus part of inflation for a bunch of other reasons.
Snapz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The trouble is that of the few remaining mom and pop places, they are typically run by folks that started working early and had limited education. They are fodder for manipulation. POS systems get in or cheap/free at times, charge for the service and “surface insights”.
“You could be charging most for X”
“this is your best seller on weekday afternoons”
And these decent folks, like many of us, can have some imposter syndrome. We don’t want to look like rubes so we press the button to test higher prices on X.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
Same with other super cheap drinks like iced tea, soda, etc.
Fuck em. I refuse to pay those exorbitant prices for your shittily brewed iced tea and coffee.
I didn’t mind paying a buck for shitty diner coffee. We had a deal - you serve cheap-ass shitty coffee for a buck, free refills, I make it tolerable with creamer, and that’s that.
Now you wanna make a killing on something that I know exactly how much it costs? Fuck you.
BigTrout75@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Plus tip
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 days ago
i heard g7 viet coffee is good, but pricey.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 days ago
How much is five dollars dollars in USD?
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
4.99
churrodestroyer@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
You bought it. It’ll be $6 next summer
duckshuffgoose@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
In the past 25 years ive been an avid coffee drinker, its rare I’ll be at a diner and look at the price of coffee. It should be between 2 and 4 bucks (for a good cup, like local roasted).
Now if they go and get the same cup again tomorrow, thats on them.
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 days ago
I eat apples because they taste sweet. Same for other fruit. I like beans and soups for their taste, texture, aroma and nutritional value… They make my tummy happy.
Coffee on the otherhand tastes awful, smells like ball bearing grease and look like rust behind the toilet bowl. Why do people drink that? Plus it is sometimes hot like lava and sometimes cold. If you don’t drink it, your tummy hurts for it. If you drink it you mind runs crazy and your heartbeat is not steady. It’s a piece of shit in all sorts of ways. Doctors try to get money by telling us how a cup a day affects our life. But outside in nature there are so many much more appealing things to make into a drink… Why focus on coffee? Heck pistachios can be blended into a really good tasting drink.
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Coffee on the otherhand tastes awful
Well that’s highly subjective. I’m not a big coffee drinker, but good coffee absolutely tastes great.
smells like ball bearing grease
Again, highly subjective. Most people, even the ones that hate how coffee tastes, generally like the smell of fresh coffee. It’s a great aroma.
If you don’t drink it, your tummy hurts for it
Never experienced this
If you drink it you mind runs crazy and your heartbeat is not steady
You probably just have a caffeine sensitivity. Most people do not experience this.
lokalhorst@feddit.org 2 days ago
A lot of things taste bad when you are a child. If you are young and drink coffee for the first time it will just be bitter. But some day you might develop a taste for the different rich flavours coffee contains, the different levels and kinds of bitterness, you will train your taste. Of course you can also just never try and stay with Dr. Pepper, and that is alright. Nor everybody can enjoy a good wine, a good cigar or a good coffee. I just have not a taste for wine. But do I go around and yell that wine tastes like shit and people get addicted so it sucks? No I don’t, so have a little bit of respect for what other people may like or may not like.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Your tummy hurts for it? Are you 5?
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
When I enter a place where coffee is brewing, the smell is amazing IMO.
Not liking coffee is kind of like not liking Chocolate IMO, the 2 beans are used very differently, chocolate is always with sweetener and often with cream.Have you tried coffee with a bit of cream in it? And maybe with a bit of sugar too.
But outside in nature there are so many much more appealing things to make into a drink
I think the stats disagree with you, not many drinks are more popular than coffee, I can only think of tea and beer that are equally popular.
rollerbang@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I didn’t like coffee until I happened to try some literally home grown and home roasted. Was super nice, smooth and fruity. Since then I like that one and those similar to it. Coffee also objectively tastes different depending on where it was grown (Colombia/Mexico is acidic, slightly) and how it was roasted.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
You better be tipping big too if you can afford $5 coffee
victorz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Y’all coffee drinkers are still gonna buy that shit though aren’t ya. Whatever the price they set, you will buy.
ol_capt_joe@piefed.social 2 days ago
reddig33@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ground coffee is about $8 a bag at the grocery. Much cheaper to make your own at home.
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
The point is that we should be able to maintain a certain standard of living…
Whats the point of constantly people to eat at home and not enjoy anything that costs money?
reddig33@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You make an excellent point. It had just occurred to me because i have been having to cut back and find solutions to ridiculous price gouging like this. Between the high prices and the cost cutting quality of eating out these days, i find myself making a lot more stuff at home. I’ve also had to remove a lot of restaurants from my list of places to eat. One place charged me $30 for scrambled eggs, oatmeal, and iced tea. I haven’t been back.
huquad@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
If you’d stop buying avacado toast, you’d finally have enough money to buy an NFT of a house
illusionist@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
In microeconomic theory, an agent gains utility from consumption and has a willingness to pay. If a normal product has a higher price than the willingness to pay is, he will not consume that product. He will consume another product.
I am not sure if I shall laugh but you are suggesting to ignore the willingness to pay and just pay whatever the price is because your utility from dining out is incredibly high.
You can easily substitute food at a restaurant. Food at restaurants is mostly not even good anymore. You are doing yourself a favor if you do not consume their ultra high processed food.
Also, you may have enough money to spend as much as you want for a cup of coffe but there are people, most people, who can (or should) not afford a cup for 5 bucks because buying a pack for 8 lasts all month vs 150 if consumed every day.
Craving is a very bad state for the mind. Becoming free of craving gives you more than consuming all the shiny stuff that you see all day long, everywhere.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
The most expensive stuff I buy is $18 per 12oz bag. Still makes about 20 cups of some of the best coffee money can buy.
evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The price of good coffee has definitely risen lately, but the price at the bottom of the market has really cranked up. Something like a can of folgers has basically doubled in the past year or so.
Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Coffee is going extinct, the price will only go up from here.
reddig33@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I say this, but i shouldn’t jinx it. I’m sure there are a lot of companies who are salivating at the idea of jacking up the price of ground coffee at the grocery to match the ridiculous expense of retail.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
AFAIK drip coffee is made from ground coffee.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drip_coffee
huppakee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The difference is getting a coffee at a bar vs getting coffee at home, not switching ingredients.