Sheldon wrote:
> George Cebulka > wrote:
>> One question: Is it just me, or has anybody else noticed the price of
>> coffee go though the roof in the last 6-8 months? What I used to buy for
>> � $7 a can now costs $9.37.... a 25% increase and there is supposed to
>> be a glut amoung coffee producers...
>>
>> George - Who is sitting on about an 8 month supply of coffee that he got
>> a $6 a can.
>
> I haven't seen coffee spike. I see you're in PA, what kind of coffee
> are you buying, and what size can? I've been buying Eight O'Clock
> whole bean for five years now, it's been pretty much the same price
> all that time... I buy it at Walmart, they have the best price, a 36
> ounce bag costs like $10. I've found coffee prices all over the place
> depending on where you buy, the small local market in town charges
> like $16, the large market, Price Chopper charges like $13, Amazon.com
> charges $17.77... Walmart has the lowest price.
>
> But coffee is one of those crops that can have a poor year, so there
> can be true shortages, you're smart to stock up.

I'm in Pittsburgh. The coffee that I buy is Maxwell House medium in the
48oz can. I get these at Costco. They were running a special back in
December or January at $6 a can and I bought 24 cans (I buy for our
office also.) I go about one a month for buy supplies for work and since
Febuary, I've seen the price go from ~7 to 7.80 to 8.29 to 8.89 to 9.19
as of last week.
From what I have noticed at Costco and the local grocery stores all
coffee has gone up by a couple of dollars per unit (can, bag, pound).
I heard something on the NPR in May about there being a bumper crop of
coffee in most of the countries that produce it... It sort of makes me
wonder what is going on here... Since an increase in amount of product
with demand being the same or decreasing should work out to a lower
cost, not a higher one...