State Of The Supply Chain: Grocery Aisle Survey

A SDA Survey for readers who have been to a grocery store in the past few days. Report your personal observations in the comments and if you have photographs, email to kate@katewerk.com with GROCERY AISLE in the subject line, along with the date and location.

Do not clutter this thread with chatter, please. Off topic comments and debate will be deleted.

90 Replies to “State Of The Supply Chain: Grocery Aisle Survey”

  1. Fresh veggies and fruit plentiful in Victoria.
    Cereal shelves though are destroyed, canned goods getting hit good too, though it’s store by store can vary wildly

    1. Same for further up Island with respect to the cereal dept.
      I noticed there weren’t a whole lot of tomatoes.
      Occasionally some single produce item might be absent. Such as green peppers or mushrooms.

    1. I heard the same thing about the Safeway near to where I live here in Edmonton.

      As well, there hasn’t been any cornstarch on the shelf for at least the last 3 weeks, some varieties of store-brand cheeses have been missing, and selected junk food snacks have become scarce.

    2. Mushroom soup and tomato Campbells. bulkbuy sale at superstore MapleRidge BC yesterday.

    3. Campbell’s soup section completely empty at local Save-on-Foods. Cereal, garbage bags, Gatorade decimated amongst others.

  2. My store in Calgary is noticeably short of:
    – chicken (especially thighs)
    – soup
    – some kinds of soup stock
    – mushrooms (often none)
    – my bran cereal
    – and they’ve been out of toothpicks for eight weeks.

    The 711 where I buy soft drinks is often out of the diet 7Up I normally buy.

    Also noticed I’m spending significantly more.

    I shop early in the morning, and I’ve found the staff to be very friendly.

  3. Northeastern US…went to grocery story just yesterday. There appear to be select items that are not readily available. Pet food seems to be a big one (which has been an ongoing issue here for over a year). Paper products, also, seem to be scant. You can get the low quality stuff no problem. But, the higher quality paper products are AWOL.

    Currently, most items are available. But, the big chain grocery store I frequent makes it a point to lower prices by dealing directly with local producers inclusive of butchers, produce providers, bakers etc. As a result, distribution cuts out the middle man.

  4. I was just at a Loblaws in Ottawa today and half the meat section was empty. I don’t know if it was weather related (we just had an 18″ snow dump).

  5. 6 packs of little Heinz tomato juice cans are always AWOL now in multiple stores.
    I don’t know why they’re the only kind I can find either, but that’s something else I suppose.

  6. Sodom on the Rideau aka Ottawa.

    Did my weekly grocery shopping at the local Metro this morning. Didn’t notice much if anything missing.

  7. pet food getting scarce in ST John’s walmarts. only a half dozen flavors of salad dressing and freezer shelves half full. we are typically behind the ROC so I expect less next week. Stocked up today

  8. Was at Wal Mart in Halifax today, just a general impression of thin shelves, but out of flour, none in any size. Prices up on most things.

  9. One thing that seems completely unavailable in the US northeast, ironically enough, is disposable masks.

  10. Well in rural Sask, not S”toon or Regina, I am told, 8-12 percent increase in all product categories, local said over 700 products, restricted, delayed, unavailable, or rationed from dist centres, no supply. Major centres have priority.

    Fruits, veggies etal, same thing, major centres rule. Border issues and lack of transport, prices of items up likely 25 percent.

    Greenhouses in Ont/Que not shipping outside Prov borders. BC, same issue tho some excess going to Alta.

    Enjoy folks, made in Canada S Show, Justin and crew. I really wonder how we can shut off gas/fuel/other items to TO and nut bars who voted this clown show in.

    Be safe, stock up, be aware, do what you can. These clowns will never help anyone outside GTA and Montreal. A FACT.

    Rural nonurban, anywhere is their enemy. Enjoy the decline to Cuba model, it’s where Turd wants to take us.

    1. The vegetable greenhouses of southwest Ontario take out the plants in December and replant soon. It will be a few weeks before the domestic vegetables are available. In the past Mexican or California tomatoes or cucumbers would come this way during the winter. In the summer, when the southern USA is blistering hot, Canadian produce would be shipped to that region. I would imagine the mandates are making a jumble of the growing plans

      1. Brought tomatoes yesterday at Dominion Store. 3.59 a pound. 4.61 for two tomatoes. Note, all types of tomatoes were the same price.
        White onions, 6.49 a kilo.
        Fresh produce is rapidly becoming a luxury item.
        Grape seed oil up a buck over last years price for a 750 ml bottle.
        Eggs were 4.39 a dozen, large. Xlarge not available. The butter I usually buy wasn’t available, PC Mac and cheese, not available, KD was, if I remember correctly, was 2.29 a package.
        Nothing blatantly obvious, but price creep and size packaging is obvious.
        All the ground beef was ” medium”, not regular, lean or extra lean,I haven’t seen ” medium” used to describe burger in a while, although that doesn’t necessarily mean anything. It was all packaged in approximately one pound lots.
        Never saw that before, and it’s pricy, not outrageous, but getting close.
        The Dominion Store is in Stephenville, NL.
        Taking a tip from Stilgar’s comment on location.

  11. Kate,
    I quite often check the store inventory to know it they have the product in stock that I need.
    Canadian Tire stores have a running inventory in each store as I’ve got 3 different Canadian Tire stores to choose from.
    The grocery stores that I also check or even place an order online is Canadian Super Stores and No Frills also have inventory but they only state if the product is running low and if they can substitute it for the same quality of product.
    My store area is Orillia, Gravenhurst and Bracebridge Ontario.

  12. I went to Superstore.. I was looking for chicken and went to the meat aisle. Beef (shelves were completely full, astronomical prices), pork (shelves were 1/2 empty), chicken (totally gone). In economics, this is called “substitution.”

      1. Possibly extenuating circumstances, but a day before Christmas, the local grocery had a pair of fresh turkeys marked down to $100 each. Originally $160 for a 10kg bird. I don’t know whether that’s cheap protein, but it seems a little extreme to me.

        1. $100, Canadian?
          WTFig.
          I know it’s not the same but here in Maine, frozen Butterball is running $1US/lb.
          I was just looking for a small one.

          Prices here in Maine are up 15-30% . I’m being backed into a vegan diet.

    1. It helps folks if you state your PROVINCE – City or Town you reside in….
      Just saying.

      Wal-Mart Calgary Shawnessy still fairly well stocked…flour & Rice seemed thin, could not find our normal Basmati rice… but grabbed another brand for less coin.
      Bacon is beyond stupid, so I buy the cheap processed “Ham” (Pork picnic for those w/Meat plant exp), for 12 bucks as opposed to 345gms of bacon at near 8 bucks..!! 4 times the meat…and little to no fat

      Chicken Breasts up a dollar a pkg of 4 breasts…but they still have the STD deal of 2 packs for 20.

      Bread we get from Cobbs, Cape Seed and the wife often makes homemade bagels. !!

      I’ve been stocking up all kind’s of foodstuffs & staples that dont require refrigeration…living in 950ft sq condo … no room for massive Freezer…we will survive….come he’ll or high water.

      Cheers to all of ya..!!

      1. Major retail center in NW Sask.
        Walmart
        Chicken breast used to have 5 chicken breasts and I used to shop early mornings to get the 2 for $20 pack.
        Early mornings used to get me quality meat for 1.15 kg per pack.
        Now its 4 breasts and lucky to find any over 1kg.
        Chicken in low to no supply for a week. Now plentiful with the price increase.
        Classico Spagetti sauce used to be 5 for $10 now its 4 for $10.

        Most of my meat comes from Costco.
        Next local mixed farms or wild game.
        Price increase on meat has been high since the fallen with the dumping of beef by local farms due to drought.
        Seems to be shortages of ground beef.
        Quality meat has gone up 20%
        I have to shop around for coffee cream and whipping cream. Supply/price related.
        I have a major stockpile of dry goods and the freezer is full. I only buy deals

        1. I splurge buying Prenium Coffee beans at Costco and use their grinder. Savings of over 30% + over Walmart
          Lactania butter is $6.77 per brick. But it is the only brand I’ve found thats soft like the good old days.

    2. XHa.
      All good and seemingly well stocked here in the Okanagan.
      However, to your point, Dick Smacky, I laughed to see the Save On in Kelowna try to advertise their Filet Mignon at $49 a pound, and let the math challenged forget what that cost in kilograms. Heh! Nice try, said me, buying the sirloin roast instead.
      Oh, postscript…the roast was tasty, and we got three subsequent meals all for a fraction of the price. Meat is meat, my brothers and sisters.

  13. I’m in Florida and haven’t noticed anything missing from the shelves. Over December and Christmas/New Years it was near impossible to buy 10% (half & half) cream but there was no shortage of whipping cream. Strange. That situation is now back to normal.

  14. South side Safeway, Lethbridge: Hard to tell b/c they’re renovating, but there are low stock & MT shelves here & there. Low/out on some canned soups. Fruit & veg displays seem full, dairy OK, meat shelves stocked but not as much reserve behind.

    Superstore, Lethbridge: Didn’t go through fruit, veg or meat dept’s, but some of the canned goods shelves MT.

    Costco, Lethbridge: Didn’t notice any major shortages.

    1. BTW, prices noticeably higher across the board, especially beef & pork. A helluva lot more than the StatsCan 4.8% BS.

  15. No issues.
    But, I’m in Mazatlan Mexico.
    The market has lots of meat and vegetables. The local grocery store has full shelves.
    Cheers.

  16. I’ve been buying 6-pound packages of boneless/skinless chicken for 10+ years straight at a Wegmans here in South Jersey. For the first time ever the shelves were absolutely devoid of said chicken this past weekend. The Walmart near me had them though.

  17. North east of the GTA. Our town’s Loblaws is one of those “super centre” types.
    -There have been no Corn Flakes since before Christmas (Not at the Walmart either)
    -Produce can be thin to none sometimes. The smallest package of fresh blueberries (maybe 38 berries?) is $9.00 currently.
    -meat is hit and miss, usually out of beef or chicken, but never at the same time. Pork seems steady. It was Chicken that was out this week. I actually bought the last family sized package of chicken.
    -chip aisle is sparse.
    -Habitant Pea Soup seems hard to come by for the last couple of months.

    Interestingly, the Home Goods Center Aisle is very bare. This time of year it’s usually filled with a welcome display of bright spring coloured items for the home. On my last visit they filled a whole section with newly arrived Christmas candle mason-jar type votives.

  18. Southern Ontario, outskirts of the outskirts of GTA.
    Can’t get Rice Krispies for months. Substitutes also scarce.
    Reduced selection on value packs of Keurig coffee cartridges.
    Vitamin B12, Zinc and D also scarce in many places, grocery store organic sections have them while their pharmacy section tends to run out.
    Choice of baked goods also reduced.
    Chicken, especially better quality chicken (grain fed) harder to find.
    Jameson Whiskey often not available in 1.75L bottles. Reduced selection of premium Irish Whiskey: Tulamore Dew often not on the shelves, same for Writer’s Tears. Even Scotch single malt selection reduced. Finlandia Vodka only available in .75L bottles last time I have checked. Beefeater Gin not available in 1.75L bottles.
    Premium German car dealerships (Audi, BMW, Merc) often have one or max two cars left in the showroom. Long wait times for delivery, demos often not available. Don’t trade in your car, sell it privately when the new one arrives, you’ll make a killing.

    1. Good point on vehicles. Buddies,work at a S. Calgary Dealership…right now,10 Techs (all vaxxed), off with the Vid…big back up of work sitting on rear lot.

      New, Vehicles sold 2 Months before hitting the lot, diesels in hi demand, wait time is up to 3 months..and ya gotta pay up front.

      They haven’t had a used,Duramax on the lot for over 2 years..simply none to be had North America wide.

      Many New vehicles selling with no entertainment systems. And certain auto/truck parts are on long delays.

      Wife is in housing…Trico Homes: Homes now selling without Microwaves. And appliance orders seeing huge delays….

    2. Kellogs strike has strained the supply side of the cereal aisle. Especially Rice Krispies, it will take some time to rebuild inventory as the production model has limited throughput

      1. Post Cereal may be better stocked if you can find any.
        Made in downtown Niagara Falls, Ontario.
        I support them over Kelloggs any day of the year.

  19. Went to the grocers, an hour north of Toronto, to stock up the other day. Slim selection of fresh veggies and what was there was of poor quality. No fresh spinach. Me and the missus love our apples. Anyone else notice the grocers continue to sell 2020 crop? The only fresh apples we had were bought from an orchard this past fall. Yoghurt has gotten expensive. Meat in good supply…but I go to the butcher for whatever I don’t shoot. Good coffee is now a treat…run of the mill Nabob can still be found at a somewhat reasonable price if I want to choke that down every morning. They were wiped out for fresh OJ.

    Saw things coming so we have lots of non-perishables in the cellar. Got plenty of venison and bunnies in the freezer and have a farm connection should I hanker for a side o’cow.

    I’m in the auto repair business and I find I now need to check several suppliers to find parts that ordinarily my regular supplier had in stock. Don’t get me started on how hard it is to find a warm body to hire…

  20. Some shelves are always empty recently at my local No Frills here in Toronto (East). For the last few weeks, no parmesan cheese. I tried another No Frills further afield. Same story. My grocery bill is up 40%. Recently I am never able to score everything on my grocery list. Several items are unavailable every time.

  21. Went yesterday to Food Basics in London, ON. My wife usually goes and has complained about serious lack of selection on meats, cereals and some canned goods. When I went the chicken section was completely empty, completely. I had never seen anything like it. Almost took a picture but thought “what for?” Beef section was also empty except for 4 or 5 scattered packages of the same kind of steaks that nobody wanted. Pork was about 75% empty. They were out of strawberries, broccoli, corn. Cambells soup section had spread out tomato and mushroom across huge sections to hide the fact that there was limited to no selection in types and sizes. Completely wipe out of sour cream, yogurt was mostly empty and only one kind and size of fresh orange juice. Every couple of weeks we have to go to several different stores to find the dog food we feed our pup.

  22. Rural Saskatchewan, not far from Delisle actually:

    Small food store: The cereal isle is 3/4 empty. The milk isle is exactly the same. Meat is still available but KG (pound?) of meat has gone from about $10 in 2019 pre-covid to $19. I couldn’t buy apples in bulk, only individually and the apples are not really good. Other supplies for now are available. I had a talk with the manager of the store and he tells me they have shortages and limited orders on over 750 items. When I asked about the trucking and issues that are happening now he informed me that their head chain has been stockpiling as much non-perishable goods as possible however it will last only a month at best.

    Service tire/repair shop: They got informed by their main office in Calgary to stockpile oil and tires. As much as they can carry and afford. I was literally informed of this about 20 minutes ago when I was talking with an employee that works there.

    A sign shop: A cousin works at a sign shop and was informed they can’t get much of the supplies they need to make signs. My cousin is worried they’ll have to temporarily close if they can’t get supplies in the near future.

    Got word that Pizza Hut is struggling to get things. Another pizza place in town has removed half of their menu options as they can’t get things like mushrooms and salami. They’re not allowed to just go down to the store and buy them off the shelves either. Gotta love chains.

    A hotel here in the city can’t get one of their elevators fixed. The part needed just can’t be gotten so guests have to climb 4-5 flights with luggage though they’re trying to keep everyone on the lower floors if possible. Another chain hotel had to temporarily close their pool. Same problem. No parts.

  23. Calgary Co-op, McLeod Trail on Monday – lots of Activia yogurt, little of the other brands; empty spaces labeled Casa di Mama frozen pizzas; more empty spaces labeled Club House gravy and sauce mixes; no brown sugar.

    And lemon-lime Gatorade hasn’t been available anywhere for months.

  24. Small town central Sask co-op grocery store. No obvious shortages altho prices in the meat dept. appear up (not a big deal for me with a deepfreeze stock). Oddly, there were several attractive sales specials. ?

  25. Son is a mechanic. Was told this morning there will be a shortage of oil and air filters for ag and vehicles due to the increase in demand of N95 masks. Same paper or at least made in the same facility. Did grocery shopping on the weekend. No grapes, chicken legs, yellow onions. Some shelves slightly bare. Rural Manitoba.

  26. My wife is more in tune with this but here are my observations. Fortino’s in Burlington ON.
    Out of several types of rice, cracker shelves are empty, PC cereals out of stock, reading eye glasses and shoe laces have not been restocked in ages.
    Prices have skyrocketed. Wife noted the other day that a single avocado was $2.49.

  27. Went grocery shopping yesterday in Calgary. Needed green onions. None at Superstore and three Safeway stores. Finally purchased them at a small italian deli for over $2.30 a bunch. When you can’t find the lowly green onion, you know we are in trouble.

  28. I specifically went out yesterday to get extras at Foodland, Wasaga Beach, ON. Trucker news spurned me on rather than coast port scenario.

    Produce, meats, bread, milk and eggs all available. TP not out but scarce. All the usual canned good still there, which was my main reason for the bulk of what I was looking to stock up on, but a lot of sections only had front rows and behind that it was empty.

    There were even some sales like 2 for$3 or 4 for$5 in vegetables, beans and soups which surprised me. Only thing I wanted that was out was Baking Soda. So far so good.

  29. Two Saturdays ago in west-end Toronto, fine; this Saturday just passed, Metro out of all but two small jugs of house brand orange juice — both large and small containers; several brands of carbonated/mineral water all out of stock including San Pellegrino bottled in Ontario; there were a couple of other bare shelves but I didn’t notice what products. I’m keeping an eye out for a full report this week’s shopping.

  30. Do all the shopping for the four adults. No Frills on Avenue Rd near the 401 is my usual place.

    Can’t say it’s any one particular thing but there are stock-outs all the time at both the No Frills and the Shoppers down the road I frequent. Today, it was PC Diet Cola – all the other PC brands were there, just no diet Cola. Lots of Coke at the same price, but I’m not enough woke to buy Coke. Also, both the cereal aisle and frozen vegetables were picked clean. I’d say the cereal shelves were about 40% empty, and the frozen veg were gone except for a few bags of Green Giant peas.

    TBF, we’re just digging out after 18″ of snow, so I can understand why things are sparse today. However, the situation is not new – I am accustomed to seeing empty shelves, and clever merchandising tricks – e.g. a whole shelf of one product, faced one unit deep – everywhere.

  31. These days I am one week in Quebec, one in the state of New York

    In Quebec near Montreal city they were only low on pasta and spaghetti sauce…maybe other regions are bad at least on the south shore of Montreal, it is not bad.

    In Plattsburgh New York, the bread aisle was almost empty twice in the last month, they ( Walmart) were very low on ground beef and other refrigerated beef products, almost out of yogurt, completely out of cottage cheese and Ricotta, low on some cheeses and some of the frozen food shelves were empty.

  32. Manitoba.
    Being told by Honda dealer that new Ridgeline only by custom order; approx wait time – half a year.

  33. Went to London Ont Metro store today. Same thing, orange juice/cereal aisle pretty bare. Lotsa beef byt organic chicken empty. Pork, chicken, beef was ok. I saw a small T bone for $9.95. It was pretty small. Canned soups really barren. Lotsa shelf space in dried soup/noodles/ramen shelves. Veg seemed to be ok so far. Bread had a few empty spots. Lotsa Dr. Oetker frozen pizzas, did I mention the plant is only 5 miles away? Other frozen pizza were a bit sparse, so they spread Dr. Otker as far as they could. All the sweet potatoes were very small with lotsa mud on them.
    The staff were very busy putting out as much as they could, but they didn’t have a lot on thier carts.
    Two weeks ago I was at a Fresco and they were out of tomatoes. All you could buy was cherry tomatoes.
    I keep a year’s supply of caned/dry goods in my basement so I won’t suffer for awhile. Thanks Justin!!!

    1. Addendum to my posts way below: true, the store in Richmond, BC I was in today had a deficit on the soup/broth area, particularly Campbell’s.

  34. Update from Houston: McDonald’s Drive-Thru advises they’re “card only” before taking your order – they can’t get change for cash from the bank due to a significant coin shortage. Also, certain brands of pet food in dire shortage. It’s now an omni-market scavenger hunt for me to find sufficient “digest sensitive” wet cat food to keep our last dependent warm and vertical.

  35. Prices Michigan WM today…
    Milk $ 2.85 gallon.
    OJ, simple cheap $ 3.45 quarter gallon.
    Gas $ 2.85 usd gallon.
    Deli store: excellent Expense prime ham ( cherry smoke) $ 9.45 / pound.
    Best Aldi bead $ 3.45 ~ excellent.
    Best restaurant lunch 1/2 (excellent) Sandwich And soup and $9.45. Tip $5.00.
    Reagards,
    Orlin
    PS – I have a stroke damage brain. I’ll love blog,

  36. Central Alabama. Publix grocery is out of cream cheese – of all kinds. And there’s a sign that this may be the situation until March. Fruit is pretty good though. Plenty apples, oranges, and now strawberries from Florida. Blackberries 3 for $10. Plenty blueberries. Shelves are fairly well stocked but some brands are thin – alternative brands taking their place, though.

  37. Cereals, pastas, rice, flour, and crackers are in short supply in my local (part of the Weston group) and have been for months. It doesn’t seem to matter if it’s domestic or imported; the shelves are empty. Fresh produce hasn’t been an issue but prices are insane. The meat case has been fine but there have been very few specials. We also shop at Farm Boy (Sobey’s) and their produce supply is still good and reasonably priced.

  38. The superstore in Victoria is always out of chicken, gf bread products for my celiac son and my wife said Costco was destroyed yesterday but they could just be still restocking from the weekend. In general the shelves are bare and some NPCs are starting to notice.

    1. Costco Langford is almost always low stock Monday/Tuesday, with stuff missing regularly. Lettuce, creamo, spinach, shrooms, etc, the basics. Be heading there tomorrow for stock up of the aforementioned and will go from there.
      They always sell out their ground bf, but the choices cuts have gotten much more expensive the past year. Oddly, the sirloin there now is at a “low” of 17.99/kg last week.
      Local Quality Foods was fully stocked yesterday, but again, some of the highest grocery prices around Victoria aside from Save-On. Both are Jimmy Pattison owned, overpriced food stores, that are avoided like the plague.

  39. Costco, Richmond, BC.
    Looked like more things were on sale, I guess blowing out stock to make room for new? Didn’t see any shortages but I didn’t check toilet paper. My bill didn’t seem any larger.
    People still walk like they drive though = terrible.

  40. 6:30 PM PST, Save-on-foods on southeast Richmond BC. Very well stocked compared to a couple days ago. Except for higher prices and smaller packages (e.g.: the “family pack” chicken breast used to cost $12 with variable weights often hovering around 1 kg and a bit above. For a while it is now $13 with variable weights hovering about “2 lbs” [870 g to 910g].

    1. P.S.: the ubiquitous Jim Pattinson owns the “overwaitee brand” that is the Save-on-foods patent corporation. Pattinson acquired a liquor license that used to belong to a small business owner from Vancouver operating in Richmond. Several Save-on-foods stores around BC now sell BC “VQA” wine. The store I mentioned above is well stocked with wine (which, well, is local), but retail prices have definitely increased, some cases (PUN intended…) by 25%.

  41. Victoria,BC. Shelves generally thin at the supermarkets but you can still get most things. Cereal selection is poor. Today there were some bare shelves at Walmart, including no frozen orange juice or blueberries. Meat and poultry is hit and miss. You can always get something but maybe not the cut you want.

    Imported products are scarcer than precovid. I haven’t seen a jar of Clausens pickles in two years. One of my favourite local delis seems to be running out of things in jars like peppers and olives. Others still have a good supply so it may be a wholesaler issue. Almost all prices higher.

  42. Tulsa Oklahoma:
    Chicken wings in rare supply for the last 6 months. When available, ridiculously priced as in 4X what it was a year ago.
    Cream completely unavailable at any store for about a week 3 weeks ago. Back in stock now and not noticeably higher in price.
    Beef generally available, up 25% from a year ago.
    Bread shelves 25% empty. regular stuff is available but no hoagie rolls, sourdough, other specialty breads. Thankfully several local bakeries here – Order a day ahead and get whatever you want (at a price).
    Midgrade Gas $3.10/Gal up 35% from a year ago.
    Boneless skinless chicken breasts $1.98/lb – Same as it was as far back as I can remember.
    Pork Products in good supply and cheap – except bacon up 50% from a year ago.
    whole milk up about 25% from a year ago.
    Many frozen potato products missing

  43. COOP CALGARY Crowfoot – one manager I was talking with said expect limited choices next month. The store got email from Nestle, Campbell and other providers that instead of say 6 choices of soup varieties you will now get maybe 2 or 3.

    This will be the same with other canned goods.

  44. Live in the Comox Valley. Quality Foods 2 stores, Thrifty Foods 2 stores, Superstore & Independent Grocer (Loblaws), Walmart. There are shortages in all with some quantity limits. By far the worst is Walmart. Quality of produce is very poor. By far the worst for shortages store wide. Costco isn’t too bad for supply.

  45. Walmart Hanover, Ontario
    Pasta – none
    OJ – almost out of fresh, have frozen
    Chicken – no fresh, got last bag of frozen

  46. Hyundai dealer in southwest Ontario says the cars on lot aren’t for sale,.there to show they aren’t all out. No cars for actual sale.

  47. Your’s Independent in Sudbury, Ontario yesterday – NO eggs and bananas. The produce shelves were more spaced and thinned out. The Dollar Store was completely out of ketchup, and the shelves there were spaced and thinned out, too. The large Ford dealership here has whole empty lots with tons of space between vehicles. When I asked an old friend of mine what the deal was, guessing that vehicle components must be hard to come by, he said that in fact, they couldn’t keep F series trucks on the lot and they were being bought like crazy, even waiting lists. I’ve also been trying to get a Play Station 5 for many months now. Scalpers are selling them for $1,000, I can’t even get one on back order ANYWHERE, not even months in advance.

  48. A note on the pasta, bread and related — we had widespread drought across the prairie provinces and US plains states, that may be affecting supply over and above the other problems.

    1. Yes, reminiscent of the “dirty thirties”, which my parents/grandparents knew well. Let us hope this year will be better for weather in western Canada/US. I personally gift all rain to you, with love, from Vancouver and the US NWest. Let it fly over the mountains …

      At my stage of life, I am not shopping often, just for making meals for one or two. Prices are astronomical, but we all know that Stats Canada and the Bank of Canada have been “lying through their teeth”, as mom would say, for decades about inflation.

      I have 2 fridges with freezers, and a fairly ample kitchen pantry. I also can cook well from scratch, if and when in the mood. I am trying to eat the freezer before heading south to California for vit D on the balcony and zinc on the BBQ. Prices will likely be bad there as well, as they went up a lot in 2020.

      I was able to get my senior delivery order here, which had everything except green onions and HP sauce at Buy-Low Vancouver near downtown. Last time that I shopped in person there, the soup shelves were a rather bare, and some fresh food was anemic and expensive. They make yummy in-house bread that is cheaper and better than the packaged stuff. Given that we are a port city, we might fare a bit better… until we don’t.

      I hope Trudeau’s war on truckers will finally drive the masses to wake up.

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