For paid subscribers: retail coffee prices have soared in recent years, driven by climbing commodity costs and tariff stupidity. Some of those pressures have now started to ease, and yet retail prices continue to rise. Will they ever come down?
This week on the Coffee News Roundup: the big US chains are doing fine, a new tool to encourage more equitable coffee buying, and Starbucks is once again extending benefits—as long as you’re not in the union.
Read about all this and a fairly odd coffee-health study in Fresh Cup Magazine:
I'm a coffee writer and creator of The Pourover. Based in Scotland, I have over a decade of experience in the specialty coffee industry. Ask me about coffeewashing. It's pronounced Fin (he/him)
