I'm surprised that a 20% increase in the price of coffee is even noticeable in the price of a cup at a cafe, given that most of the cost is labour and overheads.

Starbucks effect

Cause:

'What's behind the price rise? Climate change-related weather events have affected key coffee-producing regions and global supply chain issues are hurting importers.

Drought and severe frost are estimated to have destroyed about 20 per cent of Brazil's coffee plants.'

> "We have not seen that type of price peak since 2014," said Suzy Oo, senior industry analyst at IBISWorld.

The drop in 2018 that carried on to 2019 scared me and probably wasn't sustainable. Hopefully a fairer price remains so coffee producing economies can recover.

At this point I would much rather see a list of things that are not predicted to be in short supply.

Like the shortage of chocolate predicted 5 years ago?

prices spiked a lot thougth