Coffee - 15.5% Increase

[nannynick]

My usual white coffee whilst out in town was £1.29 now today it was £1.49 an increase of 15.5%

Has your usual coffee place increased prices?
I wonder if salaries will go up 15.5% … doubt it.

Flask from home,, wonder if anyone makes one which has separate sections so the milk does not mix until poured out.

Where are you buying a takeaway coffee at those prices?

Here to ask what difference it makes when you add the milk?

£1.49?! That's ridiculously cheap and yes, sane question re the milk

You found a cup of coffee for £1.29?? I haven’t paid that little since about 2010!!

I see what you're saying, but that's cheap for takeaway coffee.

My husband paid £7 for takeaway coffee in London when we last came home, it was about £5, 18 months previously. It has definitely gone up but I’m interested to find out where you found it for £1.49?!

Think Maccies regular is about that price?

15%. But also only 20p. Scale choice matters.

I pay $6.50 for an oat latte at my local coffee shop in Manhattan. When I was back in London last summer I thought “great, can’t wait for the cheaper prices here”. Paid £5 ($6.80) for an oat latte. 😐

Wendy's, McDonald's or Greggs are around that price.

£1.49 would be amazing. I am £3.70 for an oat flat white near home and £4.20 for DH’s cappuccino.

My oat flat white is between £3.80 and £4.50 depending on where i stop. I’ve stopped getting them, theres a machine in the office

It’s not quality coffee, it’s ok though.
20p it may be, but when looking at price increases look at the percentage. Small amounts on low cost items can still be a high percentage.

Sainsburys used to do a chocolate bar for 25p 2 years ago. That same bar is 75p now. It’s only 50p but it’s 3x the original price.

Well no. Both percentage increases and absolute cost are important.

I like milk in my coffee. If I use a flask, and put milk in it, it does not taste right after an hour so in the flask. Maybe I’m the only person who finds that. Maybe I should get used to black coffee.

Wetherspoons sells cheap coffee.

I wonder if Wetherspoons has increased what they charge. Free refill I think still applies there!

Buy a smaller flask and put your milk in that to add when you want your coffee.

Anyone noticed other things they often buy, thus know the price, rising this week?

This is a Cost Of Living thread, so we can moan about the cost of things going up.

I got notification that my Broadband bill is going up £3 from March. Don’t you just love a mid contract price rise!

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I have black coffee in a thermos cup but keep these as spares in case I feel like it

Coffee and cocoa has gone up in price tremendously in the last few years becase there is a lack of it. Harvests are down because of disastrous wheather etc. But in addition to this, for businesses rates are up, rent is up, electricity is up, interest rates are up, minimum wage is up. There are so many costs that needs to go into your cup of coffee.

To start
united utilities 12% increase
o2 £2.50 more per month
Council tax 4.99%
And food increasing week on week or so it seems

yay to a 2.5% pay rise recommendation that’ll help!

Retail prices usually go up by round amounts rather than the rate of inflation. And yes, when you consider all the costs, even £1.49 is cheap for a hot drink while out.

Retailers have to take huge amounts to cover their costs, which have all increased significantly over the past few years, and they'll have to sell hundreds if not over a thousand coffees a day to cover their fixed costs before they even make a profit.

Many small 'food service' businesses make very little such that the owner doesn't even make NMW and its only the likes of Mcdonalds and Greggs with huge buying power and extreme efficiency who can profit from that price.

I regularly buy soluble aspirin from the same supermarket. I bought some yesterday and it had gone up by 9%

I want to know where I can a coffee £1.49 😆. Cheapest here is Gregg's and I think that about £2. Independents, Costa or Starbucks you'd be around £5!