Your Morning Coffee Got 59% More Expensive

One jar of Nescafé tracks the sharpest grocery price climb Slovenian shoppers have felt in years.

Price rise tracked: 59% for Nescafé Classic 200g
Products tracked: 517 coffee products in Slovenia
Period: Jun 2025 – Mar 2026

Nescafé Classic 200g — price at Mercator Online (€)

Nescafé Classic 200g — price at Mercator Online (€)
Label	Value
Jun 2025	6.59
Sep 2025	9.39
Mar 2026	10.49

Source: Sivix, Jun 2025 – Mar 2026

In June 2025, a jar of Nescafé Classic 200g cost €6.59 at Mercator. By March 2026, the same jar was €10.49. The regular price has not returned.

What the data shows

Sivix users tracked Nescafé Classic 200g across Slovenian supermarkets from mid-2025 through early 2026. The pattern is consistent: a sharp jump in summer 2025, then a further climb into this year.

Date	Store	Price
Jun 2025	Mercator Online	€6.59
Sep 2025	Mercator Online	€9.39
Mar 2026	Mercator Online	€10.49

That is a 59% rise in nine months — for a product that has not changed. The capsule range moved just as fast: Nescafé Dolce Gusto Espresso Intenso (30 capsules) went from €7.99 to €11.29 at Mercator between August and September 2025 — a 41% jump in five weeks.

In per-cup terms, the 200g jar makes roughly 100 cups. In June 2025, that was about €0.07 per cup. By March 2026, it was €0.10. Three cents a cup sounds fine until you multiply it by two cups a day for a year.

Nescafé Classic 200g — current prices by store (€)

Source: Sivix, March 2026

Why this happens

Robusta coffee — the variety used in most instant brands, including Nescafé Classic — hit multi-decade price highs on global commodity markets through 2024 and into 2025. Supply shortfalls in Vietnam and Brazil tightened the market hard, and manufacturers raised wholesale prices in response.

Those increases reach supermarket shelves with a lag of a few months. What rarely follows is a reversal. Once retailers adjust shelf prices upward, the new level tends to stick. Shoppers absorb it gradually, usually without noticing exactly when it happened. That is how a €6.59 jar becomes a €10.49 jar with no announcement and no apology.

What it means for you

The same Nescafé Classic 200g currently ranges from €9.39 (SPAR, on promotion) to €10.90 at Trgovina Sandi in Ljubljana — a €1.51 gap for an identical product. That spread is your signal: the shelf price is not fixed, and checking before you buy pays off.

If you drink two cups of instant coffee a day, buying at €9.39 versus €10.90 saves €1.51 per jar. Over a year — roughly 7 jars — that is about €11 saved, or one free jar.

Data source: Based on 3,607 price submissions collected by Sivix users across 517 coffee products in Slovenia, 25 Jun 2025 – 25 Mar 2026. All data sourced from online grocery platforms (Mercator, Tuš, SPAR). Figures reflect online/delivery pricing at the time of purchase.

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