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you listen to podcasts. This is John Bachelor. Coffee. Conversation with Simon Constable, my colleague in the south of France,

writing at Forbes about the price of coffee climbing.

How far unknown at this point Simon has a tip about what can be done with high price of

coffee beans. How you can go about keeping your coffee without losing your wallet.

I ask him at one point, could my $5.14 large latte every Sunday after church go to $10?

I was joking Simon isn't.

Here's Simon Constable, the price of coffee,

climbing and what is to be done.

More of this later.

It could be that bad.

I mean, one of the things I would do if I was blending coffee and I wanted to keep the price really down. I would go get some robuster beans which tend to be cheaper a little more, little more sour and blend those in with the Arabica and I think that's what some

coffee blending companies might do just to keep the prices down if if you got me coffee

prices have gone up but if they go up even more and too much,

it could be just such a shock at the retail level because you also have to add on the cost of

energy and the cost of wages which have all gone up as well and we're

talking you know getting a bag of coffee could go up a lot more and then when you have it in a

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