I’m expecting December/January to be when Americans will really start to see widespread price rise and shortages. Every big company was trying to import/warehouse enough stock to get through the holiday shopping season without paying tariffs. But at some point, the price hikes are coming.
It’ll be noticeable before December/January for anything that can’t be stacked in a warehouse or frozen or whatever. But that’s not going to last forever. If nothing else, Kona, Hawaii is the only place in the US where coffee beans can be grown. Even well-off people will notice when coffee costs more.
Yeah, we switched from tea to coffee in a deeply ironic way (tea can be grown in decent chunks of the continental 48, most notably the Carolinas and the pnw) over tariffs, but we’re hooked on the dark brown and it requires tropical mountains to grow, no ifs, ands, or buts. It can handle the diversity of its native Ethiopia to such far off lands as Indonesia, Colombia, and Kona, but you’re never having a nice mug of that blue mountain brew nor are you getting roused by a cup of Rainier. Not even the mountains outside San Diego can grow it. In other words, we’re addicts who are pissing off our dealers as our government doesn’t notice they’re taxing that from us.
I’m expecting December/January to be when Americans will really start to see widespread price rise and shortages. Every big company was trying to import/warehouse enough stock to get through the holiday shopping season without paying tariffs. But at some point, the price hikes are coming.
It’ll be noticeable before December/January for anything that can’t be stacked in a warehouse or frozen or whatever. But that’s not going to last forever. If nothing else, Kona, Hawaii is the only place in the US where coffee beans can be grown. Even well-off people will notice when coffee costs more.
Yeah, we switched from tea to coffee in a deeply ironic way (tea can be grown in decent chunks of the continental 48, most notably the Carolinas and the pnw) over tariffs, but we’re hooked on the dark brown and it requires tropical mountains to grow, no ifs, ands, or buts. It can handle the diversity of its native Ethiopia to such far off lands as Indonesia, Colombia, and Kona, but you’re never having a nice mug of that blue mountain brew nor are you getting roused by a cup of Rainier. Not even the mountains outside San Diego can grow it. In other words, we’re addicts who are pissing off our dealers as our government doesn’t notice they’re taxing that from us.