# So what shortages are you personally seeing?

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [July 24, 2020, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-shortages-are-you-personally-seeing/916268 "2020-07-24T23:28:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-shortages-are-you-personally-seeing/916268/318 "2020-11-06T02:34:14Z")

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What I posted in another thread at the end of September.

> [@Food shortages that don't make sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-shortages-that-dont-make-sense/915213/260):
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> Two items I bought regularly that totally disappeared from the shelves my local Jewel at the beginning of the COVID situation are 10 lb. bags of carrots and Campbell’s Chunky Jazzy Jambalaya soup. (Before that, very occasionally these items were sold out.) The soup finally returned to the shelves a couple of weeks ago. The carrots are still missing. I can understand hoarding the soup. For carrots, I know there are ways to store them without refrigeration. But are that many people scared enough …

Big bags of carrots still missing. Comet Tub and Tile cleaner has finally shown up.

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