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France's French Days bean-to-cup coffee machine deals shut down on 14 September at 23:59: the window's missed. So the real question becomes whether those eight days were worth waiting for at all.
Julien Mercier
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Between 2021 and 2023 the chip shortage kept people waiting months for a new car, and everyone remembers that story. Since January 2026 the same headlines have come back around: electronic component shortage, memory prices through the roof, supply chains under strain. Standing in front of a €500...
Élodie Fontaine
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The Paris Coffee Show 2026 closed on 14 September. Seventh edition, same focus as always: sourcing, roasting, coffee shop margins, not the machine on your kitchen counter. Here's the short version of what any of it changes for your morning shot.
Camille Laurent
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Right to repair coverage has been all over the news since 31 July 2026, and the question comes up fast when a grinder dies at three years old. There is no right to repair coffee machine rule yet.
Élodie Fontaine
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One country decides Robusta coffee prices, more or less on its own. Vietnam supplies around 45% of the world's Robusta harvest, almost all of it from the Central Highlands (Revista Cultivar). When the rain fails in Dak Lak, the number moves in London. As of 17 September 2026, that's exactly...
Camille Laurent
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Look at the box of any coffee machine on a shop shelf. Wattage. Usually a pump pressure in bar. Sometimes an "eco" mode. No coloured arrow with a letter in it.
Julien Mercier
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The words "recyclable coffee pods" on a box tell you far less than they look like they do. Two separate rules landed on coffee capsules this year and almost nobody keeps them apart: an EU regulation about how packaging is designed, and a French sorting change about which bin the capsule goes in....
Camille Laurent
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On 6 August 2025, Washington slapped a 50% surcharge on Brazilian coffee. Thirteen months later, those coffee tariffs are gone for green and roasted beans. And yet nobody in Europe has watched their bag of beans get cheaper.
Élodie Fontaine
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Black Friday 2026 lands on Friday 27 November. If you've been eyeing a bean-to-cup coffee machine since the summer, here's the real question: does the discount reflect an actual price drop?
Élodie Fontaine
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Two Austrian engineers, both 28, are taking the Datum coffee machine to Berlin in early September. Christoph Konheisner and Nikolaus Potapow built an espresso machine and grinder pair that reads a code on your bag of beans and applies the roaster's recipe on its own. It's one of the most...
Élodie Fontaine
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The arabica coffee price touched 363.40 US cents a pound on 18 August 2026, the front-month contract's highest since the third week of January, according to Comunicaffe. Three days later that same contract had already slipped to 358.75 cents. That was mid-August 2026 on the coffee desk: jumpy,...
Julien Mercier
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The date that matters is 30 December 2026, not December 2024, not June 2025, not January 2026: those deadlines still sit on live roaster pages, and they're stale. Coffee and deforestation are governed by a single European text now, the EUDR, whose calendar has moved twice in three years,...
Julien Mercier
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