Coffee Price Up 300% Higher Than London Or Ny..!!

[ReemsterCARP]

yeahh Chet hope you enjoy that cafe plus 3 medialunas for $24 , Prices like that are available around the Retiro station in those seedy spots

Or in very normal middle class barrios like Almagro, Caballito and Chacarita....

 

[ghost]

Also the thing that goes unmentioned is that real wages in the US are declining, so yesterday's DD coffee used to cost 1/5 the minimum wage (hourly) but now costs 1/3.

Meanwhile, in 2003 the minimum hourly wage here could barely buy 1/2 a cup of coffee; now it can buy well over an entire cup (or the $24 cup in Clarín's analysis). This shows that things are still not ideal here if you need Starbucks to fill your tank, but the situation is improving here while in the US its getting much worse. (i.e., the opposite of what the article was trying to say).

This is even more clear if you look at things that are more essential than Mochaccinos. For example: Fuel. In 2003, the minimum monthly wage in Argentina could buy 130 L of petrol; now it is 313 L.

Before you buy the fuel you must buy the car. In 2003 that didn't happen. In 2014 it's pretty unlikely.

 

[sergio]

Wow ... you went to every coffee shop in London in just one week!

I've made MANY trips to London over the years -- about 2/3 x a year for the last four years. Of course I haven't sampled every cafe any more than you or I have done that in BA however I can say that the quality of coffee, in my pretty extensive experience, is better in London than it is in BA. It was not that way a few decades ago but times have changed. Same can be said for the quality of food in the UK -- generally very good / excellent these days and quite creative as well.

 

[Caribbean Cool]

My instant coffee just went up...from 5400 to 7900. But alas...coffee futures are up 40% in the last six months. Just can't win.

 

[argeiCanuck]

My instant coffee just went up...from 5400 to 7900. But alas...coffee futures are up 40% in the last six months. Just can't win.

Instant

 

[steveinbsas]

My instant coffee just went up...from 5400 to 7900. But alas...coffee futures are up 40% in the last six months. Just can't win.

If you are buying 150 gram sobres of Nescafe Clásico you can purchase 3 unidades for $19,500 ($6,500 c/u) on Mercado Libre.

If you buy 2 x 3 unidades in the same purchase, they will be delivered to your door with no additional charge

Cafe Nescafe Tradicion 150gr (pack X 3) - $ 19.500

3 paquetes nescafe tradicion de 150 gr c/uSe retira por Parque Chas. Cerca de Av de los Incas y Av de los Constituyentes (no es local a la calle)ARCACROMIA dto.cash

articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar

 

[steveinbsas]

Cafe Nescafe Tradicion 150gr (pack X 3) - $ 19.500

3 paquetes nescafe tradicion de 150 gr c/uSe retira por Parque Chas. Cerca de Av de los Incas y Av de los Constituyentes (no es local a la calle)ARCACROMIA dto.cash

articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar

The last time I checked the price of the same coffee was significantly higher in the USA than Argentina.

I posted this on August 19 in the food prices highest on the planet thread:

"I also consume Nescafe Clásico instant coffee on a daily basis. I buy two 1 kg bags at a time for just under $10 USD per kilo and reuse the "original" 170 gram jars I bought about four years ago, refilling six of them at a time.

Nescafe Classic in 200 gram jars currently cost as much as $21.00 USD on Amazon in the USA, so I am paying less than half that for the coffee I consume here."

Nescafe Original Instant Coffee - 200g (0.44lbs) https://a.co/d/dYjGcTq

Today, the lowest price of one kilo of the Nescafe Clásico coffee is $38.000 pesos.

If my calculations are accurate, that's slightly more than $5.700 pesos per 150 grams.

 

[sergio]

Yup, it's pretty much impossible to pay more than 3 dollars for a cup of coffee anywhere in the US. And in Europe, it's impossible to pay more than 2 euros.

Another sterling piece of investigative journalism from Clarin.

At Le Pain Quotidien in USA it's $4.50 plus tax and 18-20% tip for a double expresso which of course is a very small amount -- but it's real espresso, unlike what you get in Argentina. Not sure what Starbucks charges. Their espresso is not nearly as good and unlike Le Pain Starbucks uses paper cups.

 

[sergio]

so at full city coffee house a nice cup of Columbian coffee is 18 pesos
walking to store this morning I saw menu posted with cafe con leche + 3 medialunas was 24 pesos
18/8=$2.25
sigh, once upon a time coffee was a dime, with refills

During the Menem era a cafecito was routinely $1,50 pesos or the same in USD. At Patio Bullrich they charged $2,50 which we thought was a fortune. Quality was never very good

 

[sergio]

I've made MANY trips to London over the years -- about 2/3 x a year for the last four years. Of course I haven't sampled every cafe any more than you or I have done that in BA however I can say that the quality of coffee, in my pretty extensive experience, is better in London than it is in BA. It was not that way a few decades ago but times have changed. Same can be said for the quality of food in the UK -- generally very good / excellent these days and quite creative as well.

Absolutely true. And there are nice cafes all over the place. The myth persists that British cooking is not good but the fact is that globalisation has transformed the food scene. Traditional British cooking was always good in my opinion -- I'm speaking of things like roasts.