100-yen coffee battle: canned, convenience-store-dripped, or VIA?
Since I began to work at my current workplace, canned coffees has been my favorite.
I like them because of their high availability. They are available at vending machines and vending machines are everywhere, in the city and in the countryside. Basically a canned coffee costs 120 yen (hiked to 130 yen along with consumption hike), but there are many discount vending machine you can buy one for 100 yen if you search carefully.
High availability is their strength and taste has been much improved in recent years.
Of course, if I could drip coffee at my workplace, it would be great, but a canned coffee is an practical option to have a cup of coffee in a short break at work, and its prices are much lower, even though much higher than dripping by yourself or soluble coffees, than most of coffee shops.
But these days strong rivals has been appeared for canned coffees. Drip coffees at convenience stores. In recent years, increasing convenience stores in my city are equipped with drip or espresso machines, providing with a cup of coffee at a low price. In some stores, regular (short) size costs as low as 100 yen, and 150 to 180 yen for larger sizes or premium beans options.
Such 100-yen coffees are really reasonable, and I haven't expected much of taste or aromas. In fact ones in some stores, not really bad though, don't leave strong impression. Just a cup of coffee, meanwhile some can coffees give strong impression which make me still prefer them to convenience store dripped options. Meanwhile, among these 100-yen convenience store dripped options, there are really good ones which make me go to Starbucks much less frequently. (By the way Starbucks VIA is another powerful coffee option around the price of 100 yen.)
Convenience stores may be fewer than vending machines, but, there are a lot of stores around my workplaces and a few around home. This make me chose more and more drip coffee at a convenience store.
It appears me that the spread of convenience-store-dripped-coffee is a great challenge for canned coffees. I'm curious how canned coffees and other 100-yen coffee options fight and which will win.
I like them because of their high availability. They are available at vending machines and vending machines are everywhere, in the city and in the countryside. Basically a canned coffee costs 120 yen (hiked to 130 yen along with consumption hike), but there are many discount vending machine you can buy one for 100 yen if you search carefully.
High availability is their strength and taste has been much improved in recent years.
Of course, if I could drip coffee at my workplace, it would be great, but a canned coffee is an practical option to have a cup of coffee in a short break at work, and its prices are much lower, even though much higher than dripping by yourself or soluble coffees, than most of coffee shops.
But these days strong rivals has been appeared for canned coffees. Drip coffees at convenience stores. In recent years, increasing convenience stores in my city are equipped with drip or espresso machines, providing with a cup of coffee at a low price. In some stores, regular (short) size costs as low as 100 yen, and 150 to 180 yen for larger sizes or premium beans options.
Such 100-yen coffees are really reasonable, and I haven't expected much of taste or aromas. In fact ones in some stores, not really bad though, don't leave strong impression. Just a cup of coffee, meanwhile some can coffees give strong impression which make me still prefer them to convenience store dripped options. Meanwhile, among these 100-yen convenience store dripped options, there are really good ones which make me go to Starbucks much less frequently. (By the way Starbucks VIA is another powerful coffee option around the price of 100 yen.)
Convenience stores may be fewer than vending machines, but, there are a lot of stores around my workplaces and a few around home. This make me chose more and more drip coffee at a convenience store.
It appears me that the spread of convenience-store-dripped-coffee is a great challenge for canned coffees. I'm curious how canned coffees and other 100-yen coffee options fight and which will win.
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