Coffee at Trader Joe's wwent from $4.99 to $7.49

[Danmel]

I thought inflation is non existent and down so much we'd be given free food.
Oh, and gas isn't $1.99 either.

[Blues Heron]

1. Per cup?

[Ocelot II]

2. Coffee just got crazy expensive.

I need coffee so I might have to give up food.

[Bettie]

7. Yeah. If I have to choose....

coffee wins 9 times out of 10.

[Polybius]

13. Since my diet started on May 1st, I haven't had it since April 30th

I miss it though.

[Paladin]

3. A bag of Starbuck's coffee has gone from $10.00 to $15.00, in the last few days.

Thanks for nothing, trump whores.

[vishnura]

4. Paper towels at Coscos

Kirkland Brand paper towels went from $16+ to $20+

[dalton99a]

5. It will get worse

[mwmisses4289]

15. Explanation of numbers on side please.

Price of coffee per ton? Price increase percentage year over year?

Please, folks, if you post a chart from some where, a brief explanation would be nice. While some charts may seem self explanatory, others are not.

[TnDem]

6. Coffee and cocoa...

...were expensive and the market knew was going to potentially get much more expensive. This has nothing to do with tariffs and all to do with poor weather.

Predictions last fall were the coffee and especially cocoa were going to possibly double in price in the following year because of poor crops. I started buying coffee and cocoa when my local discount store was offering markdown Starbucks dark arabica for half price last October. I bought all I could and opened each can. I placed food grade desiccant packs in each can, resealed them and stored them in a cool dark place.

[Ocelot II]

8. Tariffs are part of it, though.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/coffee-shops-brazil-trump-tariffs

[dalton99a]

9. Yep, the Trump tax.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Tariff taxes are down the road a bit. Hasn't affected coffee on the shelf much if at all yet. . . . nt

[Ocelot II]

17. I expect retailers are anticipating them and pricing accordingly.

[TnDem]

20. Not yet

We may feel it in a little while even worse, but this shortage was announced before the election.

[W_HAMILTON]

21. The 50% tariffs Trump threatened went into effect earlier this month.

Anyone noticing a sharp jump recently in the price of their coffee should check where it is sourced from and see if it was one of the countries that recently got hit with the Trump tariffs.

[TnDem]

22. Coffee has been creeping up for months...Cocoa is going to be worse

From what I read, the Ivory Coast crop of cocoa is going to be terrible this year compared to last year.

[W_HAMILTON]

23. A recent increase from $4.99 to $7.49 isn't just "creeping up," though.

[TnDem]

24. World Bank and others say steep rise this year for coffee, then...

Supplies stabilize with better forecast for growing season and 15% drop next year...I remember this happened in the early/mid 1970's...Terrible growing year and the running joke was "Good news: I have a car that gets 100 mpg...The bad news: It runs on coffee"

The price of eggs was all you read about a few months ago. That had nothing to do with tariffs or inflation either, as I stated here.

It had to do with the mass culling of millions of birds because a sparrow or house cat a mile away tested positive for bird flu. Once that silly shit stopped, the price of eggs came back down.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Commodity prices vary according to seasonal weather variations and crop failures/productivity levels

It's one reason why food and energy are excluded from core economic data, despite their importance. The volatility can confound the statistics for those measures which do include them. Last year it was olive harvests (for the oil). This year it is coffee.

[oasis]

11. Thank you MAGA morons.

[Takket]

12. my wife uses instant ground coffee. Was $11 a few weeks ago. $13.79 yesterday.

America has not even begun to feel the full depth and bredth of what the tariffs are going to do to our economy. Coffee going up a few dollars is a pittance compared to what is to come.

[CTyankee]

14. I just snagged a couple of bags of Peet coffee on sale. I shudda got more and froze them...damn...

[Runningdawg]

18. Dollar General in Tulsa has the best prices. Also still selling Bustello 7oz bricks 3.50 - buy 2 get one free.

Buy it cheap and stack it deep. That applies to most anything now. I hope you listened to some of your eleders stories about surviving the depression.

[kimbutgar]

19. I started buying extra coffee after Jan 21ss

I probably have enough coffee to last a year. I went to a store recently and the coffee was scarce. A senior I moved recently had 10 containers of coffee. I joked with him about it and he said “I’ve been stockpiling it also for the same reason”. I make my coffee at home but curious how much a Starbucks cup costs now.