To go with all the rice that people have been stocking up on, perhaps.
That also makes sense, because those are items made for long(er) term storage.
Here in UK one supermarket has problems in cooked cold meats such as ham and beef, yet others are ok
A friend pointed out that there had been major outbreaks of coronavirus at some meat processing plants in the region.
Seems to make sense to me that those meat processors can’t meet their demand due to being closed and that it would affect only outlets who they are contracted to supply, other meat processors would not have the extra capacity and would also be contract bound to their customers.
Archway Soft Molasses Cookies, none available anywhere for weeks. I did find a recipe for that claims to be just like Archway, so I will make my own. They were the only commercial cookie I would buy.
And still Pudding Mix/Jello shortage. This does not bode well for Thanksgiving…
Jello’s a Thanksgiving dish??
Anything is possible. It is 2020.
My mother used to make a cranberry/orange/walnut relish/salad thingy that involved a package of jello.
The various boxed Bread Machine mixes, such as this one -
For a few months, they were totally gone, even online. Right now, you can’t find them in most stores, but they can be purchased online, but at about 300% mark up. (a single used to run between 3-4 dollars, and now it’s $21 for a 2 pack.
I know a lot of people are making food at home, but really? That’s a $10+ loaf of bread. And not a great one at that.
let it be clear, I make my own bread from scratch or buy it if it’s lazy, I think bread machines are more trouble than they’re worth, even if you make the mix from scratch
This morning’s mini-run showed shortages in juices - no regular V-8 or the like, only “low sodium.” There was also zero vanilla pudding - not mix, not shelf-stable, not refrigerated. Tapioca, rice, chocolate, sure. But no plain vanilla. Lots of TP, but not in Mega-roll multipacks. They did have Bacardi Silver, which is weird because last week Bevmo said they didn’t get it from their distributor. Different supply chains, I guess.
Stopped by Walgreen yesterday for some medicine. The entire refrigerated food case (milk, frozen dinners, lunch meat, ice cream, etc) was empty.
I too cannot find soy sauce. What up with that?
Again, my guess is people bought it to go with all the rice they’re hoarding stocking up on.
For the entire refrigerated case to be empty suggests to me that the store stopped refilling it, not that everything is out of stock.
Right, but I just wonder why? They seem to be doing a booming business at that location (and all the ones I’ve seen).
Since there’s clearly a refrigerator & freezer shortage, maybe theirs had a part go bad and they’re having trouble finding the part to fix it? That happened to a store around here, all the way back in January, and they sold no cold food for close to 2 weeks.
They still had a few pints of B&J Cherry Garcia, some other brand of milk chocolate ice cream, a couple half-gallons of generic vanilla ice cream, and 1 or 2 other odds and ends scattered throughout. They seemed to have just stop replenishing.
Wife can’t seem to find Cream of Celery soup. Haven’t searched for any other cream of xxxxxxx soups yet. Stockpile and substitutions have held up.
Contamination? I saw this at my local Walmart in Mid-June - An entire wall of refrigerated cases was covered in plastic sheeting and taped off. About half of it had been completely emptied. Some of the cases had product inside behind the sheeting but there were Do Not Touch signs all over the place.
I REALLY wanted something that was in the taped off case. Walmart has my favorite cheddar at half the price of my other grocery stores and it had been out of stock on my last two visits. And there it was behind the plastic, taunting me with the Do Not Touch signs. I was tempted but I didn’t.
I never found out what happened but I assumed that someone that had handled those products tested positive.
Interesting! It turns out this is kind of the correct answer. I just called to ask. They had a 5-hr power outage and had to toss everything.