OUR FAVORITE COFFEE JUST TRIPLED IN PRICE!

[chief38]

My Wife and I are serious morning coffee drinkers! After being married for 43 + year we have come to pick Eight O'clock Columbian Peaks as our #1 choice. We were paying about $11 for a 33 ounce bag of ground and when I went to reorder a few days ago I discovered that the $11 price is now $34 for the same 33 ounce bag!!

I did an hour long search and after extensively looking, I was able to get a slightly better price - but what the hell??!! TRIPLE in a few weeks?? I actually bought 8 bags a few minutes ago directly from the manufacturer for less than on Amazon - now that's a surprise!

Yes, there are many other good coffees, many sold at discount prices in Costco, BJ's, etc. but again, this is OUR long time Fav. I would imagine judging by the tripling of the price, many others feel the same way.

NOTE: Kirkland ground coffee is very good too however we use a 12 cup Presto electric percolator 95% of the time and a stove top the other 5% and find that the Kirkland brand (while excellent) is ground too fine and gets through the filter. The 8 o'clock grind is perfect for our method and we do love it.

Yea, we could buy a coffee grinder and custom grind our own Kirkand beans but I don't need another chore in the morning. A guess it's just another sign of the times we now live in.

 

[Breakaway500]

A price increase X3 is now called 8% "inflation". Go figure.

 

[s&wchad]

Eight O'Clock currently sells 30oz bags direct for $18.99 if you buy 4 and that includes shipping. It's still a hefty increase, but it's less than 2X your previous price.

Transportation costs and employee shortages are the new normal and are driving inflation. I'm paying $2/head for iceberg lettuce and the heads are much smaller than they were a year or 2 ago when it was $0.99/head. My local Krogers has trouble keeping it stocked. Their butter is now $4.99/lb. They do run it on sale for $3.75/lb, but it wasn't that long ago I was paying $1.99.

About the only thing going down is the value of our retirement accounts.

 

[Telecaster]

My go-to is Gevalia Colombian, but I wait till Publix has it buy one get one free and I buy a bunch. Its price has gone up of course. Aldi has some good coffee at low prices, for an alternative.

 

[StrawHat]

Everything that gets shipped on a truck will be going up in price because of fuel costs.

And yes, Eight O'clock is very good coffee.

Kevin

 

[Puller]

Seems everyone will be priced out of their vices in short order.

 

[Rlg#17]

Look into Black Rifle Coffee. Veteran owned and operated, if they don't have a brew you like, I would be surprised. Good people, they do subscriptions and free delivery. N hassle to cancel or modify it either.

Regards, Rick Gibbs

 

[URIT]

WOW!!! The Eight O'Clock 100% Colombian coffee has been my choice for years. The price at our local Walmart went from 10.88 to 14.58 about four months ago. Now, you cannot find it on their shelves.

I just finished my last bag yesterday, and opened my forced choice purchase (<$10) of Great Value 100% Colombian today. It wasn't Eight O'Clock in taste and it was ground rather than the whole beans I prefer.

$33 is hard to swallow.

The Colombians were suppose to have about 12M 60Kilo bag production this year even with their problems getting enough Russian and Ukrainian urea fertilizer and high global gas prices. I suspect the September and October plant flowering was a disappointment and buyers are trying to get as much as they can now.

 

[mauser9]

Sticking with Dunkin Donuts ground. Still $20 for 4 lbs.

 

[twodog max]

I guess sometimes it is beneficial to have an unsophisticated palette. Wife and I just like ordinary Folgers plain black.
Even that has escalated in price as has everything else.
With all the reports of diesel shortages and a bleaker outlook for winter we could be in for tough times.
You guys living in the NE that heat with oil or natural gas. you may need to migrate for the winter

 

[GaryS]

EVERYTHING gets shipped on a truck at some point in the process. That includes the fuel to power the trucks, the engine oil, the tires, and the truck driver's coffee.

This was done deliberately.

Everything that gets shipped on a truck will be going up in price because of fuel costs.

And yes, Eight O'clock is very good coffee.

Kevin

 

[gjgalligan]

Sure glad I gave up coffee 2.5 yrs ago!

 

[ladder13]

The price of diesel fuel is eye popping.

 

[Dave.357]

We go through a large can every 2 weeks . The price
has doubled in last 4 months.
Beef is ridiculous, I just bought a beef
Cow off a farmer in my family.
He will pen it up and grain it and
deliver to slaughter hose for me.
Price will be less than half store
Price when it goes into my freezer.

 

[Harrison]

I am a tea drinker; however, I understand Starbucks has many flavors of very good coffee.

 

[delta-419]

coffee addiction

I grew up on south Louisiana coffee brewed to the consistency of crude oil. I was initiated to this wonderful elixir of life by my grandmother with a splash of cream and sugar at age 6. My grandfather was served a cup of black coffee with a raw egg in it with the yoke unbroken. He had this sitting on the side of his bed each morning at daybreak. They were hard working people and coffee was a good start for the day. I drank it on board a destroyer at the mid-watch in the Navy and my German secretary in Dutchland made a brew that was biblical in nature. Two pots a day! My wife and I would enjoy a Coppi chino at 9pm at a little sidewalk cafe frequently in our little German village. Coffee has played a serious part in my life, so when we heard that there will be a global shortage of this brew we went out and purchased 15#s of packaged beans of our favorites. I predict that the wheels of global industry will come to a screeching halt if coffee is denied the working class.
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[THE PILGRIM]

I see higher prices but not triple!
Still drinking Locally Roasted African Coffee.
Some of the African Beans have gone up in price and are difficult for my Roaster to obtain.
Especially the Kenya and some Ethiopian.

 

[bigwheelzip]

... find that the Kirkland brand (while excellent) is ground too fine and gets through the filter.

For a custom grind, the COSTCO store I go to has a coffee grinder mounted to the wall in front of the cash registers.

 

[ACORN]

Walmart Great Value Donut Shop K-cups.
Still -$26/96 pods. Good enough for my uncultured tastes.

 

[biku324]

I'm just glad to have coffee and eggs in a warm house.