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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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A few months ago, it was apparently the opposite. https://financialpost.com/commodities/agriculture/we-are-dri...

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.

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

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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 "three-day-old rained-on camp fire" happen a lot less often for me now. :-(

Upper-end-of-bad coffee beans from Costco (so, about the best they have there) are my go-to at home. Steeping the grounds slow & cold yields way less cigarette butt flavor/odor than doing pourovers with them, so I'm making a lot more cold brew than before. Good thing it's Summer.

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.

This, absolutely. The 'Rona shutdown inspired me to buy an old commercial espresso machine (1964 FAEMA E.61) and build out a little home coffee shop in the garage, where I learned to pull shots.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCgeL3dsTzW/?igshid=u06d4u494zyq

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

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A few months ago, it was apparently the opposite. https://financialpost.com/commodities/agriculture/we-are-dri...

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.

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

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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.

Different industries see regular ups and downs throughout the year anyway.

Summer, for example, is generally considered a slow season, because many people are travelling and spending time outside, less time shopping.

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