Coffee Prices Post Largest Annual Jump Since 1997 (cnn.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/12/193214/coffee-prices-post-largest-annual-jump-since-1997
- Source link: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/12/food/coffee-prices
J.M. Smucker plans its third price increase this winter for Folgers and Cafe Bustelo brands after raising prices in May and August. New Orleans chain French Truck Coffee has implemented a 4% tariff surcharge. Starbucks expects peak cost impacts in 2026 due to its advance purchasing practices. KPMG chief economist Diane Swonk predicts prices will exceed historical records as Brazilian tariff effects reach retail shelves.
[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/12/food/coffee-prices
Trump: (Score:3)
Donald J. Trump: "We will bring grocery prices down on day one of my administration."
Uh huh.
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and barely knows what it is or how to pronounce it like an everyday term normal people use.
At this point, [1]he's barely cognizant [yahoo.com] of where he's at.
[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-79-called-droopy-face-212837351.html
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They did go down on day one, he never said they wouldn't go up on days 2+.
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I wonder how much effect this has on productivity. Coffee must be one of the most widely used performance enhancing drugs.
That’s it (Score:4, Insightful)
I’ll just buy domestically grown coffee! Oh wait
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actually Kona coffee is domestically grown in Hawaii - but the production is, shall we say, limited.
Re:That’s it (Score:4, Informative)
Kona is domestic. It's also already far more than 50% more expensive than commodity brands like Folgers.
On the other hand, East African coffee is the shit and is experiencing minimal tariffs. Do yourself a favor and pick up an Ethiopian heirloom bean or a more general Kenya blend. Ethiopia alone has more coffee varieties than the entire Western hemispehere.
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It was a bit weird to see the summary talking about the US relying on imports for 90% of its coffee - surely much closer to 99%!
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When I have pointed out that we import our coffee for a reason because of how the climate in America is not very conducive to coffee growing people just kind of tell me that's not true...
I don't know what you do when approximately 47% of the country rejects reality and replaces it with their own.
I know the phrase that I've been seeing that I would like to see more of, think critically and Google competently.
Now it's on! (Score:2)
Now it's on! Jack with my coffee and you're gonna have one hell of a time with me in the morning!
Noo (Score:3)
Colombia please don't raise the price of your second best export.
Coffee Party (Score:2)
Maybe we could start a Coffee Party. Something like that Tea Party from a decade ago, except not a scam.
I think it would show a great contrast with the Covfefe Party.
It's fine (Score:2)
American's are famous for their distaste of coffee. More of a delicacy of the upper class than than anything the working folk cares about.
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I learned to drink black coffee on my first job at 16. That place had tap water, coffee made with tap water, and beer. The owner was a drunk and it was his beer, though he probably would have let his 16 year old driver drink if I wanted to. There was no cream and no sugar. I learned to drink thick black coffee to keep warm and productive, at a blue collar job.
Enjoy your national sales tax (Score:2)
And lack of access to imported things.
Magats - Are you tired of winning yet? This is not a rhetorical question.
Given where we are - the Brownshirts are murdering each others' leaders in a power struggle while Pee Wee Goebbels was working up to a Reichstag fire false flag - this doesn't seem like the most important detail to me, my rather bad addiction to coffee aside. But as a nation of consumers, maybe it will get someone's attention.
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MAGA folks could lose their house and be huddled around a burning garbage can muttering how at least the libs are suffering too.
Good (Score:2)
Coffee addicts are more annoying than crackheads, from how every single person in every coffee commercial holds a coffee mug up to their face with both hands like some sort of religious ceremony to "don't speak to me until I've had my cup of coffee" - how about go fuck yourself, junkie.
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> how about go fuck yourself
You first.
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I drink coffee, and I really enjoy it. But I don't have it every day, or even every week.
I have a problem with all grocery canned and dry goods producers because shrinkflation seems to be worse than actual price inflation. I have a box of crackers, for which the price has increased quite a bit in the last 10 years, but there is now 2x4x10cm of empty space in the same package so the crackers are now about 10% smaller than they used to be. I have the same issue with canned goods. Even when the cans thems
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And though that extra packaging material is there only for the purpose of deceiving you, you still have to pay for it. You pay for even more of it, proportionally, since you have less food inside.
The deception itself has a cost which is additive with the actual inflation.
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Not heard of delirium tremens, then?
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Ethiopian FTW
Who pays the tax (Score:4, Insightful)
So importers, local business and local consumers pay the import fee? Who knew?
happiest people (by self selection) (Score:2)
are the finns - and, oh by the way, they also consume the most coffee per capita...
Who could have predicted? (Score:4, Funny)
Turns out the government placing a giant tax on coffee raises the price of coffee. Baffling!
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Thanks Trump!
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Waiting for cult members to say how this is a good thing.
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It'll obviously be good for American-grown coffee! Why do you hate American farmers? :-)
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All programmers will switch over to Pero, slashing productivity by 46%.
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Iowa's rolling farm fields of coffee
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Postum has been resurrected. It is made from wheat and molasses. It was popular with Mormons and others who shun caffeine. It was in my family because my mom and grandmother reacted to coffee, so alternated between tea and Postum, and it was drinkable by kids.
What gets marketed as Kona coffee does not necessarily have much Kona in it. A limited amount of good quality coffee is grown on Maui. There were fairly large new plantings on Kauai some years ago, but that product at the time was insipid. I don'
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What gets marketed as Kona coffee does not necessarily have much Kona in it.
Right now, I'm using a Kona blend that's 10% Kona. I buy it as whole beans and grind it as needed because I use a French Press and it works best with a coarse grind that you can't find in the market.
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> Waiting for cult members to say how this is a good thing.
wHy dONt tHeY jUSt MAkE tHe CoFFeE iN aMeRicA? Derp.
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> Waiting for cult members to say how this is a good thing.
It's good for PepsiCo and Coca-Cola who can sell you their oversugared and overcaffieneated drinks instead for cheap!
Why drink overpriced coffee when you can have your Red Monster Fuel Ade by the gallon for the same price!
And you get to hurt Dr. Pepper (Keurig Dr. Pepper) as well - remove your expensive coffee machine and replace it with our cheap sugar water energy drinks
Yum (Score:1)
Every morning I like to have a nice hot mug of Coke along with my bacon and eggs.
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Meanwhile, 53 years ago: [1]Hot Dr. Pepper [dinnerisserved1972.com]
[1] https://dinnerisserved1972.com/2014/12/12/a-happy-holiday-idea-hot-dr-pepper-1965/
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I don't know if they still do, but there was a time when hot Dr. Pepper was provided to all of the volunteers doing the last minute prep on the floats for the Rose Parade. Considering that all the work was outdoors near the end of December, I'm told that it went down quite well. I'll try to remember to try it this winter, as I now live in snow country.
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Socialism with American Characteristics
Mexico will pay for the coffee (Score:2)
Along with that wall they paid for.
Also as a coffee drinker fuck Trump. I mean not literally Jesus Christ he's got syphilis and shit.