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Philly is a union town. The history of labor in the United States is entwined with the history of Philadelphia: the city was home to the country’s first labor union, as well as the first general strike. Now, Philly’s coffee workers are joining this labor tradition. Local 80
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All coffee shop owners worry about another cafe opening in their neighborhood. Will you lose customers to the new place? Will they serve better coffee, or if not will you have to lower prices? Nobody likes competition, and margins are already so slim in the coffee industry. What will another
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Last year, drought and heavy rain impacted coffee harvests around the world. The year before that, same thing. The climate crisis is coming for coffee, and the industry doesn’t seem to be moving swiftly enough. We’re told that coffee might not survive past 2050, which is when most
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Coffee companies want you to buy their products, obviously. To do this, they need you to feel good about what you’re buying, and ideally to feel good about the company itself. Sure they could just stick their coffee on the grocery store shelf alongside all the other brands, but
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Celebrity coffee brands are having a bit of a moment. Depending on your preference, you can buy coffee from A-list actors like Hugh Jackman and Tom Hanks, rock bands like Green Day and Korn, or rappers like Jadakiss and Snoop Dogg. Sadly, you can no longer buy your coffee from
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Hello and welcome to 2021, and with it the Coffee News Roundup review of 2020. 2020 was a bad year, obviously. A lot of people died in a worldwide pandemic that was grossly mishandled by many governments, and a lot more people were economically decimated by the bad choices those
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Hello and welcome to the final Coffee News Roundup of 2019. Last year, due to traveling back from Scotland and being hugely jet-lagged, I phoned in the final Roundup by simply rehashing some of the stupidest, most pointless and/or funniest coffee stories from the preceding twelve months. This year,
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Some weeks, there is very little coffee news—or at least, any coffee news worth writing about. I spend most of my time figuring out how to wring the last drops of interest out of stories about the latest Krispy Kreme-flavored coffee disaster or something. Other weeks, however, it’s
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There’s no getting away from it: this week’s roundup is going to get political. Not by choice, you understand—it’s just the news. Some weeks, it’s all sunshine and lattes: “Starbucks opens new flagship roastery in Azerbaijan” or “This Golden Retriever is a barista now” or
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As another week shuffles towards its end, and fall seems to finally be upon us (here in Michigan, anyway), it’s time once more to take a look back at the coffee news that filtered in over the past seven days. … And once again, there’s not much. Never mind
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Hello and welcome to another edition of the Coffee News Roundup. Not a lot going on this week, aside from the usual Starbucks nonsense and the ongoing and deeply worrying drop in green coffee prices. So this week, I urge you to check out the three articles listed at the
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Hello and welcome to another Coffee News Roundup, the only* weekly coffee news summary that brings you news of high-level multinational mergers and whatever stupid idea some weirdo thinks will change coffee forever, in the same article (sometimes it's the same sentence). Anyway, let's get started