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A Bag of Starbucks Costs How Much Now?
Starbucks Pike Place ground went from about $8 a pound in 2019 to over $14 in 2026. Here is the real Amazon price history, by the pound.
Most grocery prices blur together. A bag of Starbucks is not one of them. You know what the green bag used to ring up at, and you know it does not ring up at that anymore.
So we pulled the real numbers. Not a national average, not a guess. This is the actual Amazon price history for Starbucks Pike Place Roast, the everyday ground bag, tracked over the years and put on one line. To compare fairly across bag sizes, we show it as price per pound.
In 2019, Pike Place ground ran about $8.00 a pound. In 2026 it is about $14.37 a pound.
That is a 79.6% increase, and most of it happened recently.
The part people forget
Here is the twist that the dollar figure hides. Starbucks did not climb in a straight line. For a stretch it actually got cheaper. The 28 ounce bag hit its lowest tracked price, $10.65, in June 2022. Then it turned and ran the other way, all the way up to a high of $25.14 for the same bag in 2026.
So if it feels like your Starbucks habit was fine and then suddenly was not, you are reading the chart correctly. The jump is real and it is mostly the last couple of years.
How it compares
For context, the national average for all ground roast coffee is about $9.72 a pound. Starbucks sits well above that, which is what you would expect from a name brand. A store-brand bag at the grocery store often lands near half the Starbucks price for the same pound. You are paying for the green bag, and that premium did not shrink as prices rose.
The Caveat
This is Amazon’s price, which moves with promotions and third-party sellers, so it is bouncier than a single grocery shelf. We normalized the 28 ounce bag to price per pound. The lowest, highest, and current numbers are exact from the price history; the year-by-year points in between are read off the chart and are close, not to-the-penny.
Still, the direction is not subtle. Same Pike Place roast. Same pound. A much bigger habit bill.
We did the same breakdown for the average coffee shelf, brand aside, in How Your Coffee Quietly Doubled.
What does your usual bag of Starbucks run you now?
Brand coffee has two prices
The shelf price is the obvious one. The second price is habit. If Pike Place is the bag you buy on autopilot, the increase can slide past you because the cart already knows what to do.
Try the boring audit once:
| Compare | Use this unit | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Two bags of ground coffee | Price per pound | Bag sizes are not always the same. |
| Ground coffee vs pods | Cost per cup | Pods hide the unit price better than bags do. |
| Brand vs store brand | Same roast style and same size | Otherwise the swap is not a real comparison. |
Useful source trail: this receipt uses CamelCamelCamel’s Amazon price-history read for one specific product, then normalizes the bag to price per pound. It is a product-level receipt, not a national coffee index.
Keep going
If this price check hit the same nerve as your last grocery run, How the House Got Out of Reach keeps the receipt math going.
For a cheaper table-level fix, How Your Coffee Quietly Doubled turns the same pressure into dinner.
And when you want a break from the numbers, What Really Happened to Egg Prices is the kind of small outing that still works.
Source: Amazon price history for Starbucks Pike Place Roast, medium roast, ground, 28 oz bag (ASIN B07B48LJPB), via CamelCamelCamel, read 2026-06-07. Lowest $10.65 on June 19, 2022; highest and current $25.14 in 2026. Prices normalized to price per pound (bag price divided by 1.75). Yearly mid-points are read off the chart and are approximate.
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