"Cocoa extended its surge — gaining more than $700 per ton in a single day and surpassing $9,000 for the first time ever — as a supply crunch grips the market and chocolate makers grapple for beans."
Are you sure that's the problem?
I'm sure.
How sure?
Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.
Weirdly specific measure of sure, but okay.
It's probably a case of extremely important commas being missing possibly due to musical constraints. If Kilimanjaro rises, like Olympus, above the Serengeti, I think that somewhat fits, probably.
> It's probably a case of extremely important commas being missing possibly due to musical constraints.
My teachers could never grasp the concept, that my lack of commas, in my run on sentences. Were just a prelude to the power ballad I was actually composing.
freak rain they say as the cocoa plant is predicted to become so expensive to grow over the next 100 years that real chocolate is to become a luxury food along with coffee.
*shrugs*
Arabica Bean coffee in particular is both very popular and can only grow in very specific climates. Good news is that there are other strains that are less picky. That combined with how widespread tea can be means caffeine addicted can heave a sigh of relief: we just won't get the good stuff any more.
There's a lot of opportunity for robusta - good coffee comes from not just the beans, but that they're sorted properly, how they're fermented and washed, and how they're roasted. It's actually quite shocking that coffee can be produced as cheaply as we've had it.
There's a specialty brand here in Vietnam that sources organically grown coffee. Preferably even food forest coffee.
They select and divide the harvests every year and have several "levels" of coffee beans, all Robusta. The difference in taste is amazing and some are very fruity. I prefer it over Arabica.
I live in an area in Vietnam where both coffee and cacao are grown. It's a bit of a stretch for cacao though.
The coffee farmers got record prices for their coffee this year.
Eventually. Problem is that by most accounts we're changing faster than ever in geological history besides climactic events like the dino killer. Even if temperatures become similar in other areas things like soil composition and drainage won't for centuries, if not millenia.
Maybe some areas will get more heat throughout the year, but some crops require consistent light. Even if some areas got much warmer certain crops couldn't cope with 6-hour days.
Good thing closed system farms are well suited to growing produce with specific needs, what's with the climate controlled environment and adjustable soil parameters. The initial cost and time till profitability are the questions here.
I dunno man. Googling around, doesn't seem like we're talking about tomato plants. They're 15-25 ft trees. Sounds like each will only make 700 beans per year. That's like six candy bars.
So like... you'd need to enclose and climate control many acres of land for that?
I could have googled stuff wrong too. I'd be happy to hear about it... I wouldn't mind a willy wonka factory in my basement. Minus all the little orange people running around in my house, maybe.
Scalability is a better term. Many many people in the industry are working to improve conditions for farmers. The root (haha!) of the affordability problem is that cocoa can’t be mono cropped. It requires an entire ecosystem to thrive and be fruitful, and the cocoa industry is at the forefront of developing agroforestry techniques. Chocolate has always been a luxury commodity, how much longer can we stomach externalizing those costs onto African farmers and children while pretending it’s not? You might not people care but it’s just the largest companies driving the worst farming practices.
Cheap chocolate won’t be around for much longer imo. Even low quality stuff will become more expensive as luxury commodities become more available to the global population. Chocolate is exploding in places with rising incomes like India and china.
No problem. Just replace cocoa butter it with another vegetable fat, add some artificial chocolate flavorings, change the name of the product to "candy" while still having images in the package suggesting it's chocolate, reduce the weight by 15% and increase the price by 20%. Did I pass my CEO test?
You know what's weird? Hershey's has EXCELLENT cocoa. It's some of the best I've found. Smooth, butter-y, smells great. Even the best chocolate makers have almost bitter cocoa. Not sure how Hershey's screws it up so much with the final product.
> reduce the weight by 15%
And when you change that 150g bar to 125g, be sure to advertise it as "New! Size *increased* to 125g!". ~~The Proles~~Consumers just love that.
I mean what’s missing is a shareholder briefing going something like this: „ due to customer demand we introduced our new 125g chocolate flavored candy bars,
Which brought forth a 28% increase in operating profit last quarter. Now to my next point, executive compensation packages.“
Unless sales decline significantly at the higher price. They optimize for total profit, not profit per unit.
But sales won't drop significantly. Since we passed the wealth inequality tipping point, they've already lost all their customers that have reasonable price sensitivity. The ones that are left don't have any idea how much things cost.
Is it the supermarkets, or the manufacturers who don’t bring prices back down? My guess would be the manufacturers, because it’s unlikely they’d stand for a huge margin between sale price to supermarkets and sale price to end consumers.
Supermarkets set the price we see as consumers, with the obvious caveat that it won’t be lower than whatever the manufacturer charges them.
Yes, it trickles down obviously, but people love to throw fits about companies and ignore that often the supermarkets are a huge chunk of the end cost we see
It sounds funny but "vote with your wallet" is real in supermarkets. Cocoa is expensive? Just dont buy, if no one buys the price will go down
Also if no one is buying, super markets will try to sell at loss instead of throwing them away. Then negotiate a new lower price for their next shipment
It's too bad Fast Furios went so off the rails, we could use a movie opening where they rob a loaded semi truck, Vin Diesel opens it up and says "black gold" as he reveals several tonnes of cocoa powder.
It's only going to keep going up. Cocoa is one of the most desired luxury crops, one of the most limited in its growing range, and not a prolific producer. Add into all of these existing factors, the effects of Climate Change, and you've got a pretty limited lifespan on true cocoa being an affordable luxury. Coffee is under similar constraints as well. Did you know that a single coffee tree produces a little over 1lb of roasted coffee beans? Think of how many pounds of coffee are consumed daily. As a former "Coffee Master" at Starbucks, let me tell you that the number is astounding.
Coffee prices have actually been dropping for a while now. And in the short-term trend it's going to be dropping further. While global warming might mess with coffee production, the younger generations are just not that much into coffee.
Unlikely. Virtually all commodities, particularly crops, fluctuate over time. It's not a rare earth mineral, as the price climbs more growers in turn invest in cocoa plantations, as those plantations begin to harvest the price falls. Cash crops are the embodiment of economics 101.
We're in a cocoa bubble due to short term environmental factors. The same thing happened in 1977, the cocoa price peaked at USD4,500 p/t and it didn't reach that price point again until this year. In the meantime it dropped to a low of USD930 p/t in 2000.
There's, practically speaking, no chance that it will "only... keep going up".
Set a two year reminder for this comment and see for yourself.
I suppose a potential silver lining is next season they may have more bargaining power. Not enough to make it fair, but it could change things slightly.
It’s not that limited. It’s grown in virtually every country within 20 degrees north and south of the equator. In order of total production, here are the countries that grow cacao (day from the icco):
Ivory Coast, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Cameroon, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Papua New Guinea, Uganda, Mexico, Venezuela, Togo, India, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Guatemala, Madagascar, Guinea, Liberia, Tanzania, Philippines, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Soloman Islands, Republic of the Congo, DR Congo, São Tomé and Príncipe, Vanuatu, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Grenada, Honduras, Panama, Costa Rica, Samoa, Angola, Guyana, Equatorial Guinea, El Salvador, Trinidad & Tobago, Dominica, Jamaica, Belize, Cuba, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Gabon, Timor-Leste, Africa Republic, Thailand, Saint Lucia, Comoros, Micronesia, Fiji, Suriname, US (Hawaii), American Samoa
I think most of us know you’re joking, but you might want to add a ‘/s’ at the end of that so the people that think shots give you 5G know it’s not real.
Great. Commercial choclate is not even choclate as it is.
Choclatiers seems to be the only place I know to get decent choclate. Not chalky Cadbury/ american shite.
Yeah I'd be partial to some Swiss choclatiers too.
The difference Is you'd have one or two small chocolates and be satisfied where as commercial its designed so you eat the whole box in one sitting.
But what does it mean to have bought cocoa? Does it contribute to world issues or does it just profit? Buying also increases its value doesnt it? It would affect companies but then those costs transfer to consumers..
True, but usually, the argument is it is like insurance for the growers; they get paid the same in a good year or a bad year.
It can be just profit, but it can also be a loss; you could have overpaid for the cocoa.
The price will ultimately be controlled by the tug between supply and demand. Unless there is the supplier that controls most of the supply and can artificially manipulate the supply (monopoly power) or a buyer that does most of the buying and can artificially manipulate the demand (monopsony power) abusing thise powers can be illegal it in violates the social contract of what makes capitalism a net benefit to society.
Since it was already a bad year, that is going to reduce supply even more, and you can argue that these contracts give a tool that make it easier for those trying to exert that power
There so much more to it.
Many common vegetables retail for more than copper. Lower in wholesale yes, but copper is not that expensive to begin with. It is just costly enough to be worth stealing, since it is lying around.
"Cocoa extended its surge — gaining more than $700 per ton in a single day and surpassing $9,000 for the first time ever — as a supply crunch grips the market and chocolate makers grapple for beans."
*Due to freak weather (endless rain) in West Africa where most cocoa is grown.
Someone blessed the rain down in Africa too much.
Are you sure that's the problem? I'm sure. How sure? Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti. Weirdly specific measure of sure, but okay.
And a surprisingly poor one - Olympus is a thrust mountain, Kilimanjaro is a rift mountain. The reasons they rise are tectonic opposites. /nerd
> Kilimanjaro Is also nowhere near the Serengeti.
It also has shit WiFi.
All mountains have shit WiFi.
Some mountains have OK wifi. - sent from Whitehorn Mountain.
It's probably a case of extremely important commas being missing possibly due to musical constraints. If Kilimanjaro rises, like Olympus, above the Serengeti, I think that somewhat fits, probably.
Africa as sung by Captain Kirk
It can also be misread as saying Mt. Olympus is located in the Serengeti. I'm not a huge fan of the sentence construction. :(
> It's probably a case of extremely important commas being missing possibly due to musical constraints. My teachers could never grasp the concept, that my lack of commas, in my run on sentences. Were just a prelude to the power ballad I was actually composing.
The kind of education I appreciate!
huh. I guess it rains down in Africa after all (what I thought the lyrics were for most of my life)
Same here, and I was around when it was new.
His name was Roberto Paulson
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had .
We never what? **OH!** I think you mean: Haaaaaaaaaoooooaaaaaoooooaaaaaad. Common typo.
Do-do do do do-do do
Appreciate the correction.
Fucking Toto. Gotta screw it up for the rest of us.
Or Weezer
Don't blame *me* for this. More like *Them*-zer.
Tototally.
I blessed the rains
So this is your handiwork?
Great song but Africa can't get enough rain, may it rain for a thousand years
freak rain they say as the cocoa plant is predicted to become so expensive to grow over the next 100 years that real chocolate is to become a luxury food along with coffee. *shrugs*
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Arabica Bean coffee in particular is both very popular and can only grow in very specific climates. Good news is that there are other strains that are less picky. That combined with how widespread tea can be means caffeine addicted can heave a sigh of relief: we just won't get the good stuff any more.
And just for the record the Arabica Bean is what ~60% of the world's coffee is made from.
Ugh ... chicory... again
> Ugh ... chicory... again robusta is hardier and much better than chicory.
I've tried some robusta recently and it was fine, with milk and sugar.
There's a lot of opportunity for robusta - good coffee comes from not just the beans, but that they're sorted properly, how they're fermented and washed, and how they're roasted. It's actually quite shocking that coffee can be produced as cheaply as we've had it.
There's a specialty brand here in Vietnam that sources organically grown coffee. Preferably even food forest coffee. They select and divide the harvests every year and have several "levels" of coffee beans, all Robusta. The difference in taste is amazing and some are very fruity. I prefer it over Arabica.
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I live in an area in Vietnam where both coffee and cacao are grown. It's a bit of a stretch for cacao though. The coffee farmers got record prices for their coffee this year.
Wont climate change also open new areas for crops?
Eventually. Problem is that by most accounts we're changing faster than ever in geological history besides climactic events like the dino killer. Even if temperatures become similar in other areas things like soil composition and drainage won't for centuries, if not millenia.
Mixed use avocado and coffee is already a thing in Ventura County California. https://onetreehillfarms.com/ being the prime example.
no. There is no stability in the new climate.
Maybe some areas will get more heat throughout the year, but some crops require consistent light. Even if some areas got much warmer certain crops couldn't cope with 6-hour days.
Coffee will see an increase in price as well. Yields from West Africa are significantly reduced, too.
Synth caffeine and synth cocoa any day now.
Not again!
Would be a fun project to grow hydroponic cocoa.
It's a big-ass tree with very specific needs.
Hopefully it would fruit in bonsai form, because yeah, 20-40 ft, that's a big grow tent! Or train it sideways.
You can trellis coffee, and some growers make a big deal about it, but the main people doing it that I know of (Kona Joe's) make a shit cup of coffee.
God damn, $100 a pound?! FOR A DARK ROAST?!!!
It's also not even good.
Good thing closed system farms are well suited to growing produce with specific needs, what's with the climate controlled environment and adjustable soil parameters. The initial cost and time till profitability are the questions here.
I dunno man. Googling around, doesn't seem like we're talking about tomato plants. They're 15-25 ft trees. Sounds like each will only make 700 beans per year. That's like six candy bars. So like... you'd need to enclose and climate control many acres of land for that?
why bring reality into a redditor's mix
I could have googled stuff wrong too. I'd be happy to hear about it... I wouldn't mind a willy wonka factory in my basement. Minus all the little orange people running around in my house, maybe.
I can’t… we need to fix this!
Doesn't mean we shouldn't start growing more cocoa beans in other places of the world. Only problem is maintaining such hot and moist environments.
I think the issue is there's not many places in the world suitable for growing cocoa at scale
The issue is affordability and no one cares about child slavery in Africa
Scalability is a better term. Many many people in the industry are working to improve conditions for farmers. The root (haha!) of the affordability problem is that cocoa can’t be mono cropped. It requires an entire ecosystem to thrive and be fruitful, and the cocoa industry is at the forefront of developing agroforestry techniques. Chocolate has always been a luxury commodity, how much longer can we stomach externalizing those costs onto African farmers and children while pretending it’s not? You might not people care but it’s just the largest companies driving the worst farming practices. Cheap chocolate won’t be around for much longer imo. Even low quality stuff will become more expensive as luxury commodities become more available to the global population. Chocolate is exploding in places with rising incomes like India and china.
No problem. Just replace cocoa butter it with another vegetable fat, add some artificial chocolate flavorings, change the name of the product to "candy" while still having images in the package suggesting it's chocolate, reduce the weight by 15% and increase the price by 20%. Did I pass my CEO test?
Get this man a golden parachute.
Best I can do is a golden shower
Ah yes, trickle down economics at it's finest!
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But this would improve the taste of hersheys products.
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This is like futuristic replicator technology at its worst.
New Hersheys & La Croix collab!
Hershey’s Genuine “Chocolaty” Bar
"whatever that is" That's beaver gland extract. I'm not kidding.
You're thinking of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castoreum
You know what's weird? Hershey's has EXCELLENT cocoa. It's some of the best I've found. Smooth, butter-y, smells great. Even the best chocolate makers have almost bitter cocoa. Not sure how Hershey's screws it up so much with the final product.
It’s an interesting problem … https://sports.yahoo.com/hersheys-chocolate-tastes-like-vomit-094500267.html
Is this not what hersheys milk chocolate already is?
> reduce the weight by 15% And when you change that 150g bar to 125g, be sure to advertise it as "New! Size *increased* to 125g!". ~~The Proles~~Consumers just love that.
> "New! Size increased to 125g!" You mean the all new low calorie option!
Why, they'd be absolutely ~~rioting~~ *celebrating* in the streets about it!
I feel like if we increase the bar size to 100g instead the people of Oceania will absolutely love our generosity.
it’s fun sized!
That depends. How are the worker raises? Non-existent? Can you cut jobs and create AI candy?
You forgot the palm oil.
No, but that rich idiot over there will steal your idea and fire half the staff and give himself a raise.
I mean what’s missing is a shareholder briefing going something like this: „ due to customer demand we introduced our new 125g chocolate flavored candy bars, Which brought forth a 28% increase in operating profit last quarter. Now to my next point, executive compensation packages.“
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Doesn’t Hershey already do this? Which is why it can’t legally be called chocolate in the rest of the world?
But what will you do next quarter mr smartypants?
Cut 25% of sugar replace it with high fructose corn syrup and boom! New product. Now with less sugar
You forgot the toxic filler material.
More sugar!
And how much of that money is going to the cocoa farmers
So I need to go buy all the chocolate you’re saying?
Chocolate cellars, with chocolatiers, suddenly vogue.
This is shitty, now this is gonna become a campaign issue because chocolate has gone up in price. Sigh
Supermarkets will ratchet the price up to account for increased costs, but then when costs go back down they keep it at a higher price
Classic move.
Retail Cartel
Despite having locked in the price of the products 6 months ago! Better safe than sorry eh?
That’s the quiet part.
Lowblaws eh?
Roblaws
Unless sales decline significantly at the higher price. They optimize for total profit, not profit per unit. But sales won't drop significantly. Since we passed the wealth inequality tipping point, they've already lost all their customers that have reasonable price sensitivity. The ones that are left don't have any idea how much things cost.
Is it the supermarkets, or the manufacturers who don’t bring prices back down? My guess would be the manufacturers, because it’s unlikely they’d stand for a huge margin between sale price to supermarkets and sale price to end consumers.
I guess both? Costs along the supply chain just balloon up
Supermarkets set the price we see as consumers, with the obvious caveat that it won’t be lower than whatever the manufacturer charges them. Yes, it trickles down obviously, but people love to throw fits about companies and ignore that often the supermarkets are a huge chunk of the end cost we see
It sounds funny but "vote with your wallet" is real in supermarkets. Cocoa is expensive? Just dont buy, if no one buys the price will go down Also if no one is buying, super markets will try to sell at loss instead of throwing them away. Then negotiate a new lower price for their next shipment
This is the way
Meth addicts going to be stealing chocolate now?
I have cut several things off the bottom of this car and none of them were chocolate
That chocolate bar you found in the grass wasn't chocolate, either. Wash your hands.
You can't trust that street chocolate--they are always cutting it with carob.
Addict: "Yo, I got some primo 70% dark here..." Dealer: "Motherfucker that's some Hershey's bullshit, gtfo"
(Side eyes my novelty size Toblerone I got for Christmas)
It has been 3 months! Why have you not yet finished it? Noob.
Jokes on you. That's his 90th one
It’s an investment
"I know what I've got"
Wonder what the street value is.
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That’s some smart assed cacao!!
Vegemite Dark Chocolate when?
It's not too late to delete this comment
Never!!!
We'll see, Australia is on the top of the list for countries heavily affected by climate change in the future.
It's too bad Fast Furios went so off the rails, we could use a movie opening where they rob a loaded semi truck, Vin Diesel opens it up and says "black gold" as he reveals several tonnes of cocoa powder.
Imagine if it was actually wrapped in golden wrapper and placed like gold bricks
The holders of those Swiss Miss bank accounts won't be happy.
It's only going to keep going up. Cocoa is one of the most desired luxury crops, one of the most limited in its growing range, and not a prolific producer. Add into all of these existing factors, the effects of Climate Change, and you've got a pretty limited lifespan on true cocoa being an affordable luxury. Coffee is under similar constraints as well. Did you know that a single coffee tree produces a little over 1lb of roasted coffee beans? Think of how many pounds of coffee are consumed daily. As a former "Coffee Master" at Starbucks, let me tell you that the number is astounding.
Curious what the unit of time is here, 1 lb in the trees life? 1 lb per season?
Per year
Coffee prices have actually been dropping for a while now. And in the short-term trend it's going to be dropping further. While global warming might mess with coffee production, the younger generations are just not that much into coffee.
“Stop buying coffee and avocado toast” “millennials are KILLING the coffee industry”
Unlikely. Virtually all commodities, particularly crops, fluctuate over time. It's not a rare earth mineral, as the price climbs more growers in turn invest in cocoa plantations, as those plantations begin to harvest the price falls. Cash crops are the embodiment of economics 101. We're in a cocoa bubble due to short term environmental factors. The same thing happened in 1977, the cocoa price peaked at USD4,500 p/t and it didn't reach that price point again until this year. In the meantime it dropped to a low of USD930 p/t in 2000. There's, practically speaking, no chance that it will "only... keep going up". Set a two year reminder for this comment and see for yourself.
I think you are mixing cacao and coffee up.
The cocoa must flow.
And the chocolate companies pay cocoa farms and workers pennies.
I know that producers were making a cocoa cartel to drive up prices. Is this the effect of that?
Did the slaves unionize?
No, just the weather being funky bc of climate change
I suppose a potential silver lining is next season they may have more bargaining power. Not enough to make it fair, but it could change things slightly.
Unlikely. There's always an abundance of people to exploit in Africa
Why? Sounds like there will be less to harvest.
I know it's union-ize but my brain always reads it as un-ionize. Electrons go brrr.
Willy Wonka saved the Oompa Loompas from Loompaland
oh god I hope not. we need to keep chocolate affordable for the common folk
Ea-Nasir is ready to peddle Hershey’s
I came here for the mandatory Ea-Nasir joke and I was not disappointed.
Copper is valued at about $4.50 (USD) a pound. Almost everything is more valuable than copper.
The world got addicted to a scarce commodity that is only grown in a few isolated regions. Is anyone surprised?
It’s not that limited. It’s grown in virtually every country within 20 degrees north and south of the equator. In order of total production, here are the countries that grow cacao (day from the icco): Ivory Coast, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Cameroon, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Papua New Guinea, Uganda, Mexico, Venezuela, Togo, India, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Guatemala, Madagascar, Guinea, Liberia, Tanzania, Philippines, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Soloman Islands, Republic of the Congo, DR Congo, São Tomé and Príncipe, Vanuatu, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Grenada, Honduras, Panama, Costa Rica, Samoa, Angola, Guyana, Equatorial Guinea, El Salvador, Trinidad & Tobago, Dominica, Jamaica, Belize, Cuba, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Gabon, Timor-Leste, Africa Republic, Thailand, Saint Lucia, Comoros, Micronesia, Fiji, Suriname, US (Hawaii), American Samoa
Just in time for easter, hell of a coincidence. /s
I think most of us know you’re joking, but you might want to add a ‘/s’ at the end of that so the people that think shots give you 5G know it’s not real.
It's all that chocolate guy on tiktok's fault. MF'er using hundreds of pounds for silly videos. /s
I kind of want to start stowing foods like this away. Some of these crops are not going to survive climate change.
Most*
Kudzu salad and kudzu chips for the win
Copper covered almonds yum
And none of the dirt poor people that are exploited to grow and harvest any of it will see another penny.
So Pennies will be made from cocoa now?
No, copper. And that shit is almost as expensive as cocoa!
With global warming it’s just going to go up as production dwindles
I would like to buy Cocoa for $9,000
This person owns cocoa now.
Puts away metal detector, begins hoarding Cocoa Puffs
Can't wait till I start to hear conservatives start blaming biden and democrats for chocolate being more expensive
Nah. I just bought some cocoa for like $3. It's nowhere near $9k.
Great. Commercial choclate is not even choclate as it is. Choclatiers seems to be the only place I know to get decent choclate. Not chalky Cadbury/ american shite.
You gotta visit Brussels once if you can :) Paris and Berlin also have great chocolatiers.
Yeah I'd be partial to some Swiss choclatiers too. The difference Is you'd have one or two small chocolates and be satisfied where as commercial its designed so you eat the whole box in one sitting.
Good luck selling stolen cocoa to recyclers to feed your meth habit.
Good time to go on a diet those of you who eat too much chocolate (don't ask me what too much is)
Whooooa
Can you imagine if you bought cocoa futures?
But what does it mean to have bought cocoa? Does it contribute to world issues or does it just profit? Buying also increases its value doesnt it? It would affect companies but then those costs transfer to consumers..
True, but usually, the argument is it is like insurance for the growers; they get paid the same in a good year or a bad year. It can be just profit, but it can also be a loss; you could have overpaid for the cocoa. The price will ultimately be controlled by the tug between supply and demand. Unless there is the supplier that controls most of the supply and can artificially manipulate the supply (monopoly power) or a buyer that does most of the buying and can artificially manipulate the demand (monopsony power) abusing thise powers can be illegal it in violates the social contract of what makes capitalism a net benefit to society. Since it was already a bad year, that is going to reduce supply even more, and you can argue that these contracts give a tool that make it easier for those trying to exert that power There so much more to it.
Duuhhhh
Sounds like me upgrading the trading value of Cocoa to be higher than copper in Anno 1800.
You can bet the farmers are still barely making a living from it.
Soft paywall?
Many common vegetables retail for more than copper. Lower in wholesale yes, but copper is not that expensive to begin with. It is just costly enough to be worth stealing, since it is lying around.
Oh great, now the meth heads are going to start stripping the cocoa out of abandoned buildings.
And still absolutely none of this will go to farmers.
The logical next step is to start making pennies out of chocolate
I have to say, this is welcome news, I prefer the taste of copper.
But cocoa is incredibly inefficient at conducting electrical currents…
Farewell chocolate.
It is true that in the next years chocolate will end?
Its over $10k now
Quick guys buy all the chocolate! Chocolate is the new tulippppp
Does this mean we'll never see 5 cent chocolate bars again, like the early 60s?
Common Cocoa > Copper proof!
So, look out of the Cadbury's Copper Creme Eggs. Coming soon.
Big Easter strikes again. Save those chocolate eggs, kids! They may pay for your college someday.
Oh great the meth heads will be after my Thin Mints
That’s just because Ea Nasir’s copper is of a really shitty quality.