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

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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.