Eileen, (and others) not sure if you know, but if you get the Target app, you can shop and they will do curbside for many items, but only if you shop thru the app. No fresh food items, but most everything else. I got their credit card and they free ship lots of things and you get 5% off on every purchase.
Their website shows both Fritos and Cheetos available for shipping (free with $35 purchase); my local store has both in stock. They also have black beans, both in store and for shipping. I promote this store so much, I should buy stock! I just am surprised at how much stuff you can get from them at good prices.

I haven't noticed any shortages of the things I buy. I'm in the Seattle area.

I'm in Central Kentucky.

If you need cream or half and half, you should consider stocking dehydrated cream. It works well for me, but I would not use it to make ice cream, although it makes great creamy milkshakes.

I'm having trouble finding protein shakes, and I order them on line, but the source for these does not have them in inventory. So I have switched to their powdered versions, which I have decided that I like better because they are easier to store. However, I have to reconstitute them in my blender with water, milk powder, and ice, and then I have to clean the blender every day. Even those are in short supply, and I had to switch to different sizes of containers.

I've been adding a teaspoon of powdered cream to them, although that might not be on my diet, but it makes them taste even better.

I'm in West L.A. at the moment, but I spend half my time in metro Palm Springs.

I could find only jellied cranberry sauce today, not whole berry, but I was at only one small local chain. Chicagoland.

I'm in the NE. It's kind of a game when I grocery shop to see what isn't there each week. No fully stocked aisles. Only full fat regular mayo this time (no olive oil mayo, etc.). Been hard to find 93% lean ground beef (85%, 80% yes). Last week it was egg noodles, only super wide ones available. Oh, and MA changed some law with eggs, so the only eggs available in the stores are the super premium ones ($5+ per dozen). ...Although this evening's trip may have been a little skewed as we're expecting possibly a foot of snow starting Friday night late, and people kind of freak out on the bread, milk, and TP. It was hard to find 2% milk.

We have so many choices for shopping here, if one place is out, you can usually find it elsewhere. It seems these shortages happen by store, not necessarily by area.

My locale is in my username.

P.S. Trader Joe's organic Corn Dippers are just like Fritos - only organic. We like them better than tortilla chips. They were actually out for awhile but shelves have been stocked again here.

Cranberry sauce was difficult to find last Thanksgiving. I'm also in Chicagoland. One week Marianos (Kroger) had empty chicken cases. Otherwise shelves have been full enough everywhere. Dannon wasn't able to ship yogurt for a while but has resumed.

I'm in central Oklahoma.

Wish we had a Trader Joe's close by. Nearest one is about 30 miles.

Did notice last night the pasta shelves were empty except for lasagna noodles!

And the chicken was about wiped out.

I don't use half and half regularly, so haven't notice shortages here (I don't think there is a problem with dairy in our area), but I do keep Trader Joe's shelf stable whipping cream on hand - you could make your own half and half. While you can keep it in the pantry, I put it in the refrigerator and have used it WELL past the use by date and it's still perfect. I don't know if they're having problems stocking it; I bought some before Christmas but not since.

Today, for the first time in months Tj's had Gerolsteiner Mineral Water. It's been out of stock for months and is my favorite plain bubbly water. I like that it's in glass not plastic and it's very minerally. I was so happy and said that to the checker. She said I was not the only one who was happy to have it back. Must have been stuck on shipping containers from Germany or something.

Until last week I couldn't find canned cat food anywhere. It was so weird to see the empty shelves. The dry cat food I buy in 18-lb. bags was missing too. Then all of a sudden all our favorites appeared on Walmart's website. I picked up some as a curbside pickup and ordered the rest shipped to me,

And no one seems to have Silk 10g Protein Almond & Cashew milk, which I like in my coffee. The Silk website says my local CVS and Walgreen's sell it, but that's never been true.

Fritos, Cheetos and the like are most likely also leaving the shelves quickly because it's football playoffs/super bowl season. Often it's not the product but the packaging that is in short supply. I notice it a lot with canned items, soda and even orange juice in cartons. Diet Dr. Pepper in cans was non existent a month ago. Now it's on sale and plentiful again.

HAHHA sorry about that pudeger !! I don't think there is any rhyme or reason to the distribution issues. I was told in Chicago they are trying like all get out to hire truck drivers--younger people just entering the job markets but they can't seem to pass their drug tests!! A bff told me Q-tips were going to be the next TP shortage..that didn't pan out. I just tell myself, just proves the privilege's of our great country has made us all soft. Most other countries do not have the abundance or consistent offerings we have enjoyed. Think about that the next time someone bashes the USA!!

My husband is another fritos guy and when we couldn't find them anywhere for weeks he googled. Seems there is an ongoing labor dispute causing manufacturing issues.

Rolling shortages here that come and go...one store has them, one doesn't...no stores have them, then they're stacked to the ceiling. No rhyme or reason. We like the Quaker Chocolate Rice Cakes and they seem to be in abundance or disappear on a regular basis. We also like the original Nabisco Grahams that seem to come and go. Lately we've been struggling to find campari tomatoes. It varies day to day. Fortunately we go to grocery stores several times a week and just keep checking back for what we need. I order the cat food from Pet Supermarket so haven't had an issue there.

No real shortages here (central Va) but it may depend upon the store chain. For the few shortages there are (by brand) there's usually another brand on the shelf available. Add to that a series of snow storms hoarding, plus a shortage of store clerks and some shelves are difficult to keep stocked even if the supplies are in the back room.

pudgeder, we like Oysterette crackers with our chili, give them a try.

I do think that it also can be chalked up to a form of hoarding that I'm guilty of myself sometimes. When an item's been out of stock and it comes back, people buy extra because they don't know whether it will be there next time. I generally try to restrain myself and only take 1 or 2 extra, but if everybody does that, it can still amount to the same result, I think.

Cape Cod brand kettle potato chips. I had to switch to Lay's, and now I can't find those.

I buy cat for at Sam's, because I buy 100 lb at a time, and last time they were out of the regular Purina cat chow. They had the indoor variety, but not a lot, so I bought that. They had quite a bit of other varieties, but the red dyes make my cats throw up.

I stay stressed out about horse feed. I feed 600 lb a week, and it is getting harder to find Safe Choice Senior, which is what I feed the oldest horses. It hasn't been hard to find the original Safe Choice, so far, but I especially don't want to change Emery and Rain to another feed.

Not shortages, but expense wise:

I had to quit eating oysters because the cost went up $6 per pint in one swoop. (I'm not even sure it is a pint...small container). I was paying 15.99 and then they went to 21.99, and I just won't pay that much, but I did buy them at 15.99 for several weeks...so I'm okay with that. I see that rib eye steak came down in price. Odd that the thin rib eyes were $4 more expensive per pound than the regular ones.

North of Seattle. Canned cat food has been hit or miss for months, DH reports cereals shelves are bare & butter flavored Crisco cubes have gone missing.

My friend who used to rehab wildlife with me, called and told me she has 200 cans of cat food for me. I told her to hang onto it and I would pick it up soon. We got free pet food...donated by shelters mostly, but vets also donated their prescription diets that were out of date. I don't feed a lot of canned cat food but I will put it to use. Most animal shelters do not feed a lot of canned food, and some of them only feed Science Diet dry food, so when they get donations that they can't use, they donate it to the rehabbers.

Meat, fish and deli meats haven't been in short supply at the store where I do my main shopping. Except for Pancetta. For some reason pancetta hasn't been available in months.

Metro Vancouver, BC

I find Fritos way too salty, and we buy reduced salt tortilla chips. When in Cathedral City, we buy huge packages of house-made tortilla chips at Cárdenas, and there is never a shortage. I also buy chicharrones that are made in the store. Cárdenas also makes their own tortillas, and if I happened to run out of corn chips, I could fry my own.

I always make my own mayonnaise if I run out - it's very easy to make, and I always have lemons in the freezer, but right now I have lots of lemons on my trees.

I understand that there will be shortages of orange juice soon, and I've already seen that in Cathedral City, but not in L.A. I have a lot of oranges on one tree, but not enough to last a whole year.

Right now, SW Florida.

I had to go to a different Publix to get my CoffeeMate Bliss.

I had to order orzo, the Target brand from Target. No Ronzoni or Barilla to be had.

We are pretty basic for the most part, but there are certain things that can’t be swapped.

DH needs Rao’s Sensitive sauce now, and so far it has been available.

I just returned from Trader Joe's. Their shelves are filled with all kinds/shapes of pasta. Their canned beans were well stocked (I didn't look for dried beans). The one thing I wanted was black licorice chews and they are out; production problems they told me. They had shelf stable whipping cream- I forgot to look at the dairy case to see if they had 1/2 and 1/2.

Tonight our major flagship superstore didn't have any rolls of paper towels or toilet paper and for the 10th week in a row no Fancy Feast and very little cat or dog dry food !! I'm starting to get a little irritated, I hate grocery shopping in normal life but wearing two masks and having a scarcity of products is getting on my last nerve.

Very little cat food, Fancy Feast or Friskies, and a limited selection of dry Purina. My kitties do well with the chicken-not beef or fish. It's hard to find.

There hasn't been any original Special-K on the shelves in weeks, but there seems to be a substantial variety of Special-K with berries and whatnot.

The availability of half and half is sporadic.

I'm in Southwest AZ.

We are all going to have to be more stratigic when shopping.

I don't want to get into the “hoarding” mentality but I did buy 7 Bliss CoffeMateS. This should last me for Florida duration. It is one creature comfort that I enjoy every day for my tea.

Certain dog food. DH questioned why we were hauling dog food down here. I didn't want to worry about availability here.

How many stores will we gave to shop at to complete a basic shopping?

1% and/or 2% milk. were we’re now drinking whole milk, all i can find. But we like organic milk because the use by dates are at least a month out. Haven Haven’t had to throw out sour milk since we switched to it!

Also Vernors Diet or Zero gingerale only regular in stores these days.

in FL

Today was chicken wings and seasoned fries. So much for my at-home junk food fix! Luckily I stocked up on canned cat food because it was not to be found either. NM.

"But we like organic milk because the use by dates are at least a month out."

Just a note kathy - milk that goes through the normal pasteurization process doesn't last that long. The milk you're describing was likely "ultra-pasteurized", processed at a higher temperature than is normal to give it a longer shelf life. It also imparts a slightly boiled taste to the milk. An off taste that some find unpleasant, myself included.

Whether milk is organic or not doesn't affect the taste - how it is processed does.

I went to pick up two prescriptions at CVS today. There was only one ready, the other - Vitamin D - was not. She said they were out of it but would get some more in next Tuesday.

I shopped yesterday and my Costco had plenty of canned catfood and dry. I am way north of Seattle. No issues with milk or cream, plenty of chicken. They had birdseed which has been in short supply but that was due to so much snow that lasted a long time. People responded by feeding the birds. The other stores seemed normal. Prices on meat are way up but there was plenty of it.

Chicagoland. No problems for me now, but there were no Voortman gingerbread men available throughout the Christmas season.

What's happened to lamb prices? $28/lb for loin chops? I didn't dare price the rib ones.

Milk products, --- other than heavy cream, cream & half & half are readily available.

Doesn't make sense to me.

Ill just add, shortages perhaps due to convoy hitting my city, Ottawa. lol

Olychick, have you ever tried Dutch salted licorice coins? They are really nice. I buy them from Amazon.

Zalco, no, I haven't. I hadn't had licorice for years but was reading it was good for tummy upsets so tried some from TJ's. It was SO good and seemed to help my tummy. I'll look for those. I don't buy often from Amazon (try to avoid it) and do not have prime, but sometimes I can't find something anywhere else so buy enough to get free shipping. They will be a fun 'add on'. Thanks!

DH went to the commissary yesterday for our bi-weekly supplies.

There were no crackers of any kind except two boxes of Townsend’s.

He bought one of them.

Also, no dried cilantro, paprika, or chives.

I've not needed much, don't eat much pasta anymore so have enough on hand for several months, and don't currently have a pet - so I haven't been looking around the grocery except for the few things that I am after. I've not seen any shortage of milk, cheese, canned soup, canned beans, canned tuna, eggs, yogurt. I've not looked particularly at the cream/creamers, so wouldn't notice if just one product or brand was out, but I would have noticed if that case was empty.

What has been in short supply at Kroger for a couple of months are frozen vegetables, in particular the Kroger brand, but intermittently the major name brands too. The cases are often quite empty. I think it is partly increased demand, though, since the most expensive packages/brands never seem to be scarce.

I definitely notice a difference in flavor/aroma with conventional vs. organic whole milk. Conventional milk often has a hint of stinkiness even when fresh - like it's verging on spoiled.

And yes, organic milk is processed to have a much longer shelf life, compared to conventional.

"I definitely notice a difference in flavor/aroma with conventional vs. organic whole milk. Conventional milk often has a hint of stinkiness even when fresh - like it's verging on spoiled.

And yes, organic milk is processed to have a much longer shelf life, compared to conventional."

Fresh milk has a sweet, even "fresh" dairy/milk smell. If you detect a stinkiness in fresh milk, it's not fresh. Whether in your hot Florida climate or elsewhere, that suggests that the milk was not maintained at a proper low temperature somewhere along the path from processing to the store.

As far as ultra pasteurization is concerned, any milk product can be put through that process. It's not restricted to organic milk. In most areas, there are reasonably local dairy operations that provide fresh milk and because of proximity to stores and the fact that the ultra process spoils the normal flavor people expect, it isn't needed or used for local milk.

There are a much smaller number of organic dairy producers. Many are large national and regional brands and their products are often subject to long shipment distances to get to stores around the country. The ultra pasteurization treatment allows them to sell their products far and wide. It's done for the convenience of the producers, not for the convenience of consumers.

No cream cheese here. Not Philadelphia or store brand.

Cindy - plenty cream cheese here when I went to the store yesterday. You want me to send you some :-). I don't think it would make it there before the football games if you wanted it for game party food.

I was able to get some at Trader Joe’s, thanks anyway, Jack. : )
It is their brand so we’ll see how it works. It’s not for the games. Can’t wait!!

No Philadelphia brand cream cheese OR chicken wings here either. ♥

Grocery stores are full in Alberta, even though our premier would love you to believe shelves are dry.... The only thing my store doesn't seem to be getting in is Neo Citran and childrens liquid tylenol. We have our own potato chip manufacturing in Alberta, along with our own beef and chicken plants, egg farms, Robin Hood flour, yeast factory just down the road from me... Dairy.... I honestly do not see any issues in the stores.

I went into Kroger to get a few things for my DD (still recovering from Covid). The frozen potato shelves were empty, the bread aisle nearly so. There was plenty of milk, eggs and cheese - the oat milk was low, but that had been on special so not at all unusual. Same for toilet paper - brands that had a sale or coupon were out or nearly so, but sufficient quantities of other brands.

The lines were longer than normal for a Tuesday, but it was the first day of the month and a storm coming

I finally got my nonstick foil yesterday! Woohoo!

What lacked? Leeks. That was it. For what I was looking for. Doing ok, but will probably get sparser shelves after this storm.