Heavy/Whipping Cream seems to be in shortage here in SE Michigan now. Couldn’t find any at all in Costco in Commerce, and the only other source I know for half gallon cartons is something called Busch’s or Bush’s, and I grabbed the last one in the case with an expiration date tomorrow (they’re UHT, so the date doesn’t actually worry me).
In a pinch you can make heavy cream, or various substitutes. I never have, but it’s a thing.
My CC&R’s prohibit keeping cows, though. 
Possibly the heated hose prevents that - though really, the container does NOT hold all that much water.
I had an appointment today at the sleep clinic (to try out new masks) - the tech confirmed he’d heard there are long delays with getting CPAP devices. He said the company started making models without all the electronic bells and whistles (e.g. mine can upload data via cellular service), because of the shortage of chips - but nobody WANTS those, so they’re waiting on availability of the shmancier ones.
Anyway, this inspired me to drop by a CVS near home (while I was treating myself to a sandwich and smoothie next door) - and they had shelves full of it. I grabbed 6 gallons, put them in the car, walked over to pick up my takeout, walked back to the car… and the car would not start.
If I hadn’t had the water to haul, I could have walked the mile home after having AAA tow it away. So that was a good luck / bad luck situation.
Ultimately, 5 minutes before AAA showed up, the damn car started again. So I cancelled that call, drove it over to the mechanic, called a Lyft from there, and made my way home with my now-ice-cold sandwich, half of my smoothie, and one gallon of the water (the rest is still in the car).
Maybe - but I don’t like the peel 
Our African Grey, Rocco, loves carrot peels. And zucchini peels, cucumber peels, apple, potato, turnip, etc.
Thanks to you and others for answering my question. And BTW, I was at Costco earlier today. They had six-pound bags of carrots for, I think, $4.50. (And four-pound bags of peeled baby carrots for, I think, $6 or so.) My guess is that if Costco can supply a pallet-load of bagged carrots to each of their stores, the shortage must be easing.
Not really sure if this is right place to complain…
but the magazine rack at my local Wal-Mart in New Hampshire is mostly empty and has had hardly any new magazines put out in over two months.
The tabloids at the front of the store by the registers are still being updated though.
Well, of course - the tabloids are the ones that are selling.
Print media probably won’t go entirely extinct, but it’s a shadow of what it used to be.
I know this is a months-old post but I have to add :
fentanyl isn’t evil if your using it for no longer than a week or two its when its continuous is when you have problems I had to watch as one of the sweetest kids in the world become absolutely evil as the patch he had to use for pain wore off and the look on his face when the new one took effect… and how much happier he became after we weaned him off of them
Still having trouble getting my RLS medication (Requip, generic ropinirole). This is likely related to the fact that Glaxo quit making the brand name, about 3-4 years back, due to a “business decision”. Which is somewhat amusing, as Requip was the first drug to go through testing to be officially FDA-approved for treatment of Restless Legs Syndrome. I had a call with a health practitioner the other day and she said that there is a lot of news about drug shortages in general.
I was in a grocery store in Florida last week and the facial tissue section was really picked over. I’ve never seen THAT before.
I did in March 2020. During the Great Toilet Paper Shortage, ANY paper goods that people thought might be substitutable got scooped up, so far as I could tell.
Good point. And yeah, if I were running out of TP, I’d have definitely grabbed some Kleenex instead.
As far as I could tell, there was no TP shortage in that grocery store.
I’ve come to a theory on why it was so hard to find Red Bull. It was perhaps exacerbated by the pandemic, but it may have been that Prime bought space in the energy drink section that displaced Red Bull, regardless of actual consumer demand. Publixes around here only have 1 shelf-section of energy drinks, and 12 packs of Sugar Free Red Bull’s slice of that was one row worth, placed sideways, which only fit 1 or 2 12 packs.
Now that Prime is no longer being pushed, they have since reclaimed the real estate and now place them the long ways on the shelf which can now fit 2-4 or more.
This could also explain why they were hard to come by at Target and often low even at Wal*Mart, even though they didn’t have as much of a real estate problem: Since you couldn’t get them reliably at Publix, the demand transferred to the other stores.