Celebrating International Coffee Day – find out where you can pick up the cheapest jar in Jersey

Did you know that Sunday, 1 October 2023 was International Coffee Day?

Organised by the International Coffee Organisation, the annual day is billed as ‘a celebration of the coffee sector’s diversity, quality and passion’.

It’s thought that coffee beans were first discovered in Ethiopia – the coffee bean is actually the pit from inside the coffee berry. The Arabs started drinking coffee in 15^th century, and it then began spreading across Asia, Italy, Europe, and the Americas. It was introduced to the British colonies by the Dutch in the 1600s.

In the 1970s and 80s, branded instant coffee became popular in most homes in Britian.

In 1980 a 200g jar of coffee was £1.69. Here’s what our grocery surveyors found a jar of coffee to cost when they last carried out a price comparison survey, on Wednesday, 20 September:

• Morrisons: £4.63
• Co-op: £4.79
• Valley Foods: £5.40
• Waitrose: £6.32
• Marks and Spencer: £7.00

Coffee is just one of the many products that we survey the Jersey prices of fortnightly. Visit prices.je for the latest prices.