Or maybe a touch more chicory. ;-)
Posted on 06/21/2014 4:33:09 AM PDT by blam
DANIELLE WIENER-BRONNER, The Wire
Jun. 20, 2014
Months after we all started fretting over the prospect of a global coffee shortage, it seems we might actually start to feel the caffeine-related effects of Brazil's massive drought and Central America's coffee fungus, in the form industry-wide retail price increases.
The Washington Post reported back in February that coffee costs were expected to rise later in the year:
For now, retail prices for coffee are stable. Roasters typically have enough supplies to cover themselves for a few months. But if the price of the Arabica (pronounced uh-RAB-ick-uh) beans continues to rise, consumers could start seeing the cost of their morning coffee creep up later this year.
And that's exactly what appears to be happening. Starbucks said today that consumers at more than 7,100 stores in the U.S. should expect prices on some drinks to jump by 5 to 20 cents each.
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Any Keurig type machine with a water reservoir grows mold very quickly in the reservoir and in any of the tubing, nooks or crannies that always holds water. Anyone with a Brita pitcher knows this if they've left the pitcher out of the refrigerator for a few days.
Really ?
I have a Keurig machine for over three years and NEVER had that problem...we go six months between cleanings with white vinegar...
Isn't most public water system sanitized and cleaned before it flows into your home?
Or maybe a touch more chicory. ;-)
Lot of stories about how this or that is about to get a lot more expensive or scarce (same thing) and yet we are told inflation is “contained”.
I have stocked up on espresso ground coffee also, I still get value from a local dented can store. The ones in our area are run by the amish. I can get the latin espresso grinds in 8 to 10 oz size for $1.99. It is in the vacuum brick or can. It is stronger than the European brands.
We get a great deal of stuff at these stores, for example the larger cans of tomatoes in various forms are three for a dollar. Treat the dented cans like home canned items and check them after opening. Some out of date stuff we do not get, baking types of items, most others are no problem.
For grocery items these types of places are the best value around, yesterday I got small tuna steaks, first time they had that. You are not quite sure what they will have.
Don’t think the drought in South America will have much of an impact on SE Asian coffees, so my preferred Trung Nguyen coffee prices will likely be unchanged.
You came here from lucianne.com dincha?
A rising tide raises all boats.
Chicory's History
Chicory is one of the oldest recorded types of plants. Chicory is native to Northern Africa, Western Asia and Europe, and its cultivation is thought to have originated in Egypt in ancient times. Later, chicory was grown by Medieval monks in Europe (at which time commonly added to coffee by the Dutch). It was brought to North America in the 1700s and has been a popular coffee substitute or an ingredient in coffee in France since around 1800.
I disagree. Coffee is a gift from God.
Sadly, the filthy idiots who make your life miserable in the breakroom enjoy it, too. It's not the coffee, it's the @ssholes you work with.
A better way of dealing with coffee shortages and price spikes: mix two parts coffee with one part chicory. The result is less expensive, has less caffeine, and is delicious. Order some coffee with chicory from Amazon or numerous other online merchants, or grab a cup the next time you're in the New Orleans area. You can also buy coffee with chicory at Walmart and other grocery stores throughout Louisiana, southeast Texas, southern Arkansas, and most of Mississippi and Alabama and in the Florida Panhandle.
Most public water systems treat the water with sodium hypochlorite or bleach. This takes most of the impurities out of the water to make it safe by state standards.
That’s a really weird chart though, it goes from around 410 in October, to under 370 in December or a 10% drop, then back up to 430 or a 5% gain, still bad, but not quite the headline of 20%.
!gniP
“Food prices are rising at double digit rates. I watched the bologna I buy go from 4.98 to 5.63 the other week, a 13 percent jump in price. Its been going on for years now. I heard about a 15 percent food inflation rate in Australia when I listened to a local news broadcast a few years back and the BBC has since published on its website a story about a 15 percent food price inflation rate worldwide.”
Americans will be given a “natural disaster” explanation for every food group as inflation eats away their income. While pretending there in no inflation, our “president” encourages minimum-wage hikes (to combat that same non-existent inflation).
Food isn’t growing more scarce (we have the fattest poor people in the world); our dollars are being devalued.
My town has only 3 grocery store now. The highest priced store, for some reason, has their store brand Columbian coffee at just under $7. Just a couple of years ago, that same can was nearly $14. And that is for the 34 oz size. I have been stocking up — $7 for a 34 oz can is a bargain.
Walmart’s Columbian is about the same price — just under $7, but their can had been package-shrunk to 27 oz.
I have noticed many products either experienced product shrinkage or increased pricing or both.
Walmart’s pork skins, for example, were about $1.28 a couple of years ago. They jumped to about $1.57 last year and are about $1.89 now for the same size bag.
I have noticed my weekly grocery shopping totals [for just me] have increased from around $30 four years ago to $40 two years ago to $60 now — and that is buying typically the same items each week.
LOL...cute.
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