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Good news for once. The coffee prices 2026 story is finally turning: arabica has already dropped hard, and that drop should eventually reach your bag of beans towards the end of the year. Just don't expect it tomorrow morning.
Élodie Fontaine
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For Christmas 2025, French shoppers planned to spend €243.60 on gifts on average, €17 less than in 2024, according to the Havas Market study reported by CB News on 28 October 2025. Coffee didn't get the memo: whole-bean coffee sales in France rose 31.6% in value over a year, per Crack Cafés' 2026...
Camille Laurent
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International Coffee Day falls on Thursday 1 October 2026, and it's the first one since the UN General Assembly put the date on its own calendar, on 10 March 2026.
Élodie Fontaine
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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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