Bare shelves at the grocery store!

fancicoffee13

fancicoffee13

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When COVID first hit, I was awestruck to see so many bare shelves!!!! Well, recently, I could go to Wal Mart and expect to get the brand of my goods. But, today, I went to get a brand of healthy breakfast bars and there weren't many there! Bottom 3 shelves in that section were half bare! In my childhood, never were the shelves bare for any reason!
 

It must be certain locations because over the past 7 days, I have been in Kroger, Walmart Supercenter, Aldi, WinCo and Costco Warehouse and both the produce area and the aisles I had to get items from were full. I haven't seen any shortages and haven't had to buy substitutes.

When I was in Trader's Joe 4 weeks ago, I walked all the aisles and didn't see any empty shelves.
 
Nosy Bee-54 said:
It must be certain locations because over the past 7 days, I have been in Kroger, Walmart Supercenter, Aldi, WinCo and Costco Warehouse and both the produce area and the aisles I had to get items from were full. I haven't seen any shortages and haven't had to buy substitutes.

When I was in Trader's Joe 4 weeks ago, I walked all the aisles and didn't see any empty shelves.
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Well, that is how it has been lately. Until today-the lower shelves were three fourths empty. And, I believe I went on an off day when the shipment hadn't come in something.
 

They're not empty here (MS) but spots are pretty sparse. It's hit or miss on whether some products or brands are in stock any given day ...lots of gaps in availability of pre 2020 common items. Gluten free items have been hit hardest.
 
We have a lot of empty spots on shelves in our local grocery. Every time we go, it seems to be different things. Last time DH went, there was almost no cat food, no cream cheese, toilet paper, a lot of cereal and some bread products. Every time we go, it is a different mix. A little scary - I feel badly for those out sick. We're doing alright though. Pinterest has TONS of new recipes to try.
 
This time of year, weather related shortages can be fairly common as people buy extras ahead of a storm....such as this "Izzy", which is pummeling parts of the Eastern US. Couple the weather, with things like truck driver shortages, and sporadic empty shelves will be quite normal for awhile.
Plan ahead, and if you use something fairly frequently, keep some extras on hand.
 
I think as long as people don't hoard 30 packages of spaghetti again like at the beginning of this thing, we'll be fine. Not noticing any real shortages in my area that are worrisome.
 
Nosy Bee-54 said:
It must be certain locations because over the past 7 days, I have been in Kroger, Walmart Supercenter, Aldi, WinCo and Costco Warehouse and both the produce area and the aisles I had to get items from were full. I haven't seen any shortages and haven't had to buy substitutes.

When I was in Trader's Joe 4 weeks ago, I walked all the aisles and didn't see any empty shelves.
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That's encouraging.
 
Maybe tomorrow or Thurs. there will be more on the shelves. I never know the day or days they restock. I think someone once told me
Wednesdays but I'm not for sure on that. I went grocery shopping today and there was plenty of produce and other stuff but I only went to a few sections of the store. I have been there, too, when the shelves really looked picked over and almost empty.
 
Remy said:
I think as long as people don't hoard 30 packages of spaghetti again like at the beginning of this thing, we'll be fine. Not noticing any real shortages in my area that are worrisome.
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Right! I thought that showed over selfishness on the part of those who did that! Sure, get extra but not to that extreme. Yes, we will be alright now.
 
Yesterday at the grocery store many of the shelves were empty. This will not improve any time soon, the rules have changed for truckers, many who are not vaccinated so that takes them off the roads and stores do not get their goods. Just another casualty of covid.
 
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