Hello Tuxtom007,
about the topic 500gr coffee for less than 5€ you have to say that in the 5€ also 7% VAT and 1,10€ coffee tax are included.
5€/500gr on the supermarket shelf so minus taxes only 3,57€/500gr mean. In addition, the burn-in - i.e. the loss of weight during roasting - must also be taken into account. That's 15-20%, so the roaster even used about 600gr green coffee to make this 500gr roasted coffee.
Including that, the coffee only cost 2,98 €/500gr green coffee (!). Now you have to subtract packaging, energy and wear costs of the roasting machine, marketing, advertising, transport (not only to the supermarket, but first from the coffee field to the roasting plant), margin and so on from this.
What remains in the end? So in any case not much for the coffee farmer any more!
As the coffee farmers do not sell their harvests at junk prices either, of course, they only give out the worst harvests for the lowest prices, i.e. over-/underripe beans or those which fell from the tree, have a low density, were eaten by insects, lay too long in the fermentation tank (and became stinkers) or are otherwise not in order.
Well, everyone has to know for himself. Especially as one sees a lot of coffee in the supermarket for clearly less than 5€...
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