Soaring coffee prices rewrite some Americans' daily routines

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• I loved it.
• That was just my routine,” she says.
• “And now it’s not.”Years of steadily climbing coffee prices have some in this country of coffee lovers upending their habits by nixing café visits, switching to cheaper brews or foregoing it altogether. Coffee prices in the U. S.
• were up 18.3% in January from a year ago, according to the latest Consumer Price Index released on Friday.
• Over five years, the government reported, coffee prices rose 47%. That extraordinary rise has brought some to take extraordinary measures.“Before, I thought, ‘There’s no way I could make it through my day without coffee,’” says Liz Sweeney, 50, of Boise, Idaho, a former “coffee addict” who has cut her consumption.