Coffee is quite sensitive to environmental factors and only grows in certain specific regions as a result. Those factors are being upended by climate change. Coffee is going to very rapidly become a luxury product.

Billionaires don't care. Twenty dollars or two dollars for a cup is effectively the same price to them; insignificant. It's the rest of us that get fucked.

From what I've heard this is largely due to bad weather due to climate change, as I understand it, we should not expect coffee prices to ever go back to where they were.
For the past 4-5 years it seems prices have only gone up here. It's more than triple now of what it used to be before Covid, and that's only 5 years!

But I'm not an expert, this is just what I've been seeing as a heavy coffee drinker in the supermarket, and what I've gathered from short news tid-bits.

Coffee can be a pain to grow. As someone else mentioned, you have to have the right environment (rain, sunshine, soil, etc).

Adding to this is that it’s easier to grow other things that are in just as much demand. Vietnam has switched to growing durian fruit — less fussy and makes them just as much money.

https://www.itv.com/news/2024-09-18/why-the-worlds-smelliest-fruit-is-making-your-coffee-more-expensive

It's also due to very bad weather/floods in the second largest producer, Vietnam.

And since extreme weather events are increasing in intensity and frequency, it's not going to get better (as a trend at least).

It's like those people saying quit your every day coffee/breakfast/lunch/cigarette and you will afford a house.

Time to start the french special: bred, butter, jam and a cigarette.

Already happened to chocolate. Raw cocoa is currently around 10% more expensive than it was at the same time last year - but chocolate products at retailers has shot up 40% or more. Including brands where cocoa isn't the dominant component ingredient like milk chocolate.

Yet businesses like Lindt are celebrating a 7.8% increase in sales... Make it make sense to me cos I buy far less now. Who are the people who see these increasing prices and buy more 🤡

Source data: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/cocoa

Finally! I'm so glad people are starting to realize just how much we're getting fucked.

"Product costs 5% more to bring to market? Better increase the price by 20%!"

Cocaine it is then.

Lol, it only takes a few days to no longer have withdraw effects of caffeine. Some Ibuprofen and Tylenol will take care of the headache in the transition.