"They don't know if they will be able to sell their product at the new prices," he said, also asking not to be identified. "Some people are going down".
That's surprising to me, considering that coffee is quite addictive. Will consumers really stop drinking it if it gets too expensive? Is there a really a strong correlation between coffee production price and the amount sold to end consumers?
>That's surprising to me, considering that coffee is quite addictive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine#Addiction
Actually no, it's not considered addictive. Yes, anecdotally you will find people that say they're addictive. Pick almost any subject and you can find someone that says they're addicted to it.
My personal experience is that my withdrawal symptoms are not that bad. I used to pause my coffee consumption when the euphoria significantly diminished.
I hope someone can authoritatively answer the correlation question.
> That's surprising to me, considering that coffee is quite addictive.
I'm not sure that it really is. You can build a physical dependence to caffeine, but in my experience there's no mentally addictive component. For a period of time I drank a lot of coffee and then stopped cold turkey, and the only effect was a couple days of physical unpleasantness. I now limit my coffee consumption to a max of one cup per day, and have no issues switching between coffee/decaf/no coffee on any particular day or for any arbitrary period of time.
Withdrawal isn’t so pleasant from coffee. It was like a lite version of nicotine withdrawal for me. Headache, brainfog, lethargy. A few days of that and you are done in both cases. It took quite a lot of coffee to get that sort of withdrawal though. My current consumption of a cup or three a weekday isn’t enough to hit that. You need to be doing about 4 or 5 cups a day without skipping weekends for some time to get to that in my experience.
That's surprising to me, considering that coffee is quite addictive. Will consumers really stop drinking it if it gets too expensive? Is there a really a strong correlation between coffee production price and the amount sold to end consumers?