The other day, I saw a saltine brand I had never seen before - Little Dutch Girl - in a random endcap. It looks like the local grocery stores are pulling in some lesser known brands.
Same here (in Minnesota). Had to buy a tiny bag hidden away.
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I got some chili at Culver’s - they were out of saltines.
Why saltines?
I just went to the Honda dealer to get my car serviced. There were hardly any cars for sale on the lot. Two years ago they would have been packed in like sardines.
The cracker and cookie aisles here are still a bit off; there doesn’t seem to be any pattern to what is sold out though. My mom has reported problems finding loose oranges; everything she’s seeing is in bags, which is a risky buy because you can’t always see if they’re all fresh.
There are definitely still car shortages around here (unless you need a Wrangler; the local Jeep dealer is absolutely swamped with pre-owned ones). Of particular note is a Chevrolet dealer I drive by on the way home; most of the vehicles on the lot appear to be older, non-Chevy models.
The keyboard I want to buy is out of stock all over the place.
I have no idea whether this is due to a shortage, or whether they’ve just decided to quit making it but haven’t said so yet.
Huh, i noticed a lot of food coloring on the shelves around Easter.
But what’s in short supply in my life is my estrogen patch. After going back and forth with the drug company for two weeks, my doctor switched my prescription to one i need to change twice a week, instead of the convenient weekly model that he can’t find.
We have said, repeatedly, that we were very lucky our ancient Civic died when it did (October 2020). We were able to go to a dealer a couple weeks later, test drive a car, negotiate a good purchase price, and drive it home that night.
6 months later, it would have been a very different story.
We rented a car for 10 days on vacation earlier this month. I had booked it 6+ months earlier, because of the stories about shortages. So we spent maybe 700 bucks for the entire time. The fellow at Budget said the prices and shortages were real; he had someone reserve a car, cancel it, then call back a week later to try to re-reserve, and the price had tripled.
And our car was not “new” (the agencies typically have new cars that they use for a year or two, then sell). They told me it was one they’d bought used, of all things. Judging by the sticker on the windshield, which was a bar code to get into a gated community in Florida, I believed him.
How about this for an oddball shortage: PETUNIAS.
Yes, the flowers you plant every springtime.
We got a call from the landscaping service saying that they were ready to do the spring work, including installing flowers, but they could not get petunias so how about something else.
Here in Ottawa, my particular brand of beer is just about gone. I checked the Beer Store website, and stores all over the city are down to almost nothing.
But everything else seems like it’s at their usual stock levels. It’s quite odd.
My sister sent me pictures from the Honda dealership where she took her car for service. The showroom was empty and the cars on the lot were all there for service.
Well, I know where they are: here. I haven’t been able to find half as many pansies as usual, the ones they did have selling out close to a month sooner than usual, and every store this spring filled in the gap with more petunias than I’ve ever seen for sale. As I waited until the frost warnings to end before buying I was only able to get my hands on a single 8 pack of pansies and a few leggy violas.
But to my delight, last year’s pansies reseeded so my garden is less bare than I feared.
The soft cheese shortage continues. I’ve raised my prices several times and I’m still selling everything I make. Cream cheese is especially valued but I’m also now selling cultured buttermilk as a finished product because the local bakers can’t buy it in stores and seem to have fallen for the cheese making mystique.
I love that you’re benefitting. I hope that after this ends, people will see the value of local makers and stay with you.
Thank you for your kind words. I have a very small creamery and only sell locally. My biggest customer, a small mom and pop diner, has signs proudly proclaiming they support local businesses and that their soft cheeses are made by their private creamery. I chuckle every time I see that sign, it just seems so ostentatious.
My prices are only a little higher than retail but not only do I make the best Belgium Cream Cheese you have ever tasted, I deliver what is ordered on time, every single time.
Is there something going on with Jif peanut butter? Today there was none on the shelf. Plenty of Skippy though.
Product recall. Salmonella.
Thanks! (And I see what you did there!)
I also just saw Jif peanut butter recall (5/2022)
My father consulted with a cardiologist about an elective surgery. After the guy finished geeking out because he has a copy of my dad’s anatomy book he explained that there is a shortage of some necessary drug because it is made in China. So he booked dad for an appointment in August, hoping they’ll get a supply by then.
Rice pudding!
I felt like rice pudding but didn’t feel like making it. I stopped at the grocery store and there was a ton of tapioca, made by the same company that makes the rice pudding I wanted. Every shelf area including a “rice pudding sale” end cap had tapioca instead.
Stocking/ordering mistake maybe?