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The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

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Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

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Wow not me. Probably because my home coffee setup and beans are a lot better than my office.

I stopped having 4 K-cups a day. Instead I grind and brew my favorite coffee every morning. And then I sit on the patio in the early morning sun and enjoy it. Life’s good!

Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That makes me wonder if the toilet paper industry is also seeing a short-term dip in sales because of all that hoarding earlier this year.

Its annoying how there was pretty much no toilet paper to be found for months with a massive stock pile of paper towels everywhere and now its the opposite. I stock up on toilet paper and paper towels at regular intervals and was lucky to only barely begin running out once stores started getting toilet paper again but there seems to be no paper towels anywhere now.

FWIW, major grocers like HEB spent months planning and simulating the effects of the pandemic before it hit the US and still didn't see the run on toilet paper coming.[0]

0: https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/heb-prepared-coronavirus-p...

Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

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post #5

i personally drink coffee less because i can simply take a 25 min power nap when i get my usual noon drowsiness after lunch. i also sleep longer because i dont need to commute as much and feel much more refreshed throughout the day

This... and I’m also more productive: 30min of off line rather than uselessly fight drowsiness for 2h

Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

#35
post #19

I drink a lot less good coffee at home. Not worth shelling out for 5lb of the good stuff when everything past the first pound will be stale and not very good by the time I get to it, and purchased in smaller (usually 8-12oz) bags high-quality, freshly-roasted beans are way too expensive to have more than occasionally. So those transcendently good cups where one can actually taste stuff other than "coffee flavor" or "…

You can freeze coffee beans. Helps keeps them fresh a lot longer.

I do this. Get a kilo of good beans, freeze them in 250g batches.

Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

#37
post #29

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I'm sitting next to one of those to-go carafe boxes of coffee right now I ordered yesterday. 8-ish cups. It's empty now. RIP.

I drink about 36-cups/day, so this sounds as if I would be really irate if I had that little...

Are you being ironic or do you actually drink that much?

Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe people are drinking the same amount of coffee, but they had to stock up their homes in March-April and then haven't needed to refill since then.

That makes me wonder if the toilet paper industry is also seeing a short-term dip in sales because of all that hoarding earlier this year.

Apparently industrial (enterprise? hahaha) toilet paper is different to home ones, and they couldn't just route for-office TP to retail. Although I heard this on a podcast which didn't cite any sources.

The shittiest (ha) TPs are the ones where the buyer cheaps out, i.e the one you found in every AirBnB on the planet (when AirBnB was still a thing)...

Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

#39
> Shutdowns for cafes and restaurants -- which typically account for about 25% of demand -- were overwhelming, and it could be a while before things pick up again.

I was originally going to theorize something about office workers having more options to deal with fatigue -- taking a nap, or staring into space (and maybe being less fatigued in general from all the time saved commuting?) -- rather than just drinking coffee and toughing it out at their desks; but in light of this stat, it seems that this is all about how hard cafes & restaurants have been hit by lockdown.

Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its annoying how there was pretty much no toilet paper to be found for months with a massive stock pile of paper towels everywhere and now its the opposite. I stock up on toilet paper and paper towels at regular intervals and was lucky to only barely begin running out once stores started getting toilet paper again but there seems to be no paper towels anywhere now.

FWIW, major grocers like HEB spent months planning and simulating the effects of the pandemic before it hit the US and still didn't see the run on toilet paper coming.[0] 0: https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/heb-prepared-coronavirus-p...

Clearly they didn't read their history books.

King of the hill predicted the TP apocalypse for y2k.

https://kingofthehill.fandom.com/wiki/Hillennium

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