Thanks. I managed to find two packs of imported gelatin in the local market and bought them both. Guess I’ll have to get it delivered now.
Just try to find pet-friendly ant spray anywhere. Amazon has my preferred brand, but only from a third-party seller and at $35/bottle for what normally is $3.95!!
The hot pockets section of my Walmart is also totally and completely empty. Even the non-Hot pockets brands.
Use cinnamon. It works really well, and should be pet friendly
DH and I found a pet-friendly bug spray under the brand name Zevo at Target or Home Depot. There may be other sources. DH says he thinks Raid now has a similar essential-oil-based bug spray.
I, too, had a devil of a time finding a little box of Knorr. (I sprinkle a bit into beef strew for body, so I don’t need a lot.)
When I got a syringe of R.S.O. I poked a tiny hole into a storebought gummy candy, then squirted in a dose. Worked fine, maybe that’s a backup option?
Sherbert was out of stock for weeks at my local WalMart. Finally got it back in this week.
Lunch meat seems to come and go. One week it will be well stocked. The next it looks like it was ravaged by scavengers.
Holy crap! Bran flakes! (See OP from almost two months ago.) I bought two boxes, just in case.
I did a big 2-week grocery trip today, and found every item on my list. Including paper towels and canned tuna and shelf-stable milk. 
So I’m feeling like there aren’t a ton of shortages right now.
Maybe they were recalled, or there’s a problem at the factory?
Even after flour came back to all our local grocery stores, whole wheat was out of stock for months everywhere. I got so tired of eating white bread and pancakes that we ended up ordering some vastly overpriced WW flour from an Amazon 3rd party seller. Box came completely mangled, and the bags were torn open. But the kicker was that it shipped from Walmart.
We went, “wait, what?” and sure enough you could order it from walmart.com for half the price we had paid. Filed a complaint with Amazon (for the destroyed and unusable product), got a refund, and next time in Walmart, sure enough there it was on the shelf. 
Walmart’s packaging and shipping to residential customers is terrible. I’ve learned not to order anything delicate from them, especially food items, unless I can pick it up myself at the store.
I wonder if it’s because all the kids are doing school at home now, many of them probably by themselves. A quick, microwaveable meal that they’ll want to eat is probably what people are after. (My family is the one buying out all the Bagel Bites, my kids’ preferred microwaveable junk lunch.)
I still have trouble finding brown rice. (Normally, I buy several pounds a week, as part of my rats’ diet.) For a while, there was no rice. Now, there’s white rice, but brown? I can only find the little 1-lb bags if I hit the right dollar store. Neither supermarket nearby (Meijer and Wal-M) have it in stock at all.
I have not had trouble buying rice…although, I’m not sure I looked for brown rice. Shortly before the pandemic shut stuff down here I went to the local Indian grocery store and bought 3 10lb bags of rice. (and 20 lbs of assorted pulses.) They had brown rice, and I bet they still do.
There’s a definite shortage of canning lids, I can’t find them anywhere. Which makes sense, given all the people home and canning. When I asked the hardware store, he said the company has a shortage, and won’t be getting lids to them until February. And even more depressing, I forgot to make the obvious, “well, the company sure dropped the Ball™, there.” I’m betting, in this case there’s probably labor shortages and production difficulties – getting a thin layer of a specific class of rubber just under the rim just right is possibly something that can only be done at a certain factory.
I ordered some online, I can expect them mid-October to mid November. (!) My sister ordered some, dunno when those are coming. Anyway, I ordered some rings and lids recently, they cm in a couple of weeks. Go figure.
Here’s one that doesn’t make sense to me - colby cheese. Sure, there’s plenty of colby-jack, and maybe they have a big block. But I don’t eat it that fast. I need the small size, but I can’t find it. Walmart used to even have some organic colby that wasn’t dyed, and it wasn’t at jacked up prices, but now it’s gone.
Why colby? There’s lots of cheddar of varying strengths, plenty of colby-jack, etc.
I think there are fewer varieties available from lots of manufacturers. My favorite pasta only came in 3 shapes. Several people have mentioned that less popular soda flavors are missing. My guess is that what you are seeing with the cheese, as well.
Yeah, but there are reasons for those. I don’t know about pasta, but the is a shortage of aluminum cans and artificial sweeteners affecting sodas. What’s the reason for cheese shortage?
A worker shortage, i assume. That is, i assume that all manufacturing sites are directly affected by covid, and attempts to keep the workers safe. And i think a lot have reduced the number of open production lines as a result.
Pasta is basically flour and water. There aren’t shortages of either of those. (Consumer-packaged flour, yes, but not restaurant or industrial flour supplies.)