Not discriminating

Can I buy a decaf version of this same coffee?

ALS-COFFEE-1.0-DECAF-004

This question is executable, but nearly every page answers it the same way — so the answer carries almost no information, and it is published rather than run.

Assertion

decaf_option option_available true

Applicability

applies when
the seller offers caffeine choice as an option on this product
signal
undecidable_from_public_data

Accepted evidence

  • product_options — a purchasable option value naming the decaffeinated state

Explicitly insufficient evidence

What does not count, and why. Published because the omission is where a check quietly becomes a claim.

  • a separate decaf product elsewhere in the catalogue
    A different product is not an option on this one, and this assertion can only see the offers attached to the page under test.
  • "decaf available" in prose
    An availability statement is not a selectable option, and a buyer cannot complete the purchase from it.
  • the word decaf in a collection handle or tag
    Merchant-controlled naming is assertion by labelling rather than evidence, and the engine deliberately never reads tags for category signals.

Conflict rules

  • When decaf is sold as a separate product — then this entry fails and that failure is not a defect, which is precisely why the row is published rather than run

Discrimination

Predicted fail rate: 85-98% (predicted, not yet measured)

Decaf is almost always a separate product rather than an option on a caffeinated one, because it is a different green lot processed at a different facility. A row failing for nearly everyone is the cruelty-free failure exactly: not false, but irrelevant, identical across unrelated merchants, and enough to make a specific diagnosis read like a template. Published so a reader can see it was considered and rejected on that ground.

For a shopper

Decaf is normally a separate coffee rather than a switch on the one you are looking at, because the caffeine is removed from green beans at a specialist facility before roasting. If you want decaf, search for it as its own product.

For a merchant

No remediation is implied. If you do offer the same lot in both states, exposing that as an option helps a buyer, but structuring decaf as a separate product is normal and correct.

Grounding

  • Coffee Intelligence, specialty coffee trade publication (trade_press)
    that decaffeination happens at a small number of specialist facilities on green coffee before roasting, and that US decaf consumption rose from nine to twelve per cent of the market in a year, so demand for decaf is real while it is structurally a separate product