What are you noticing at your food store?

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86. I was at a supermarket near me yesterday morning

and the paper products section was completely bare except for a few larger multi-roll packs of paper towels and a couple multi-box packs of tissues. I.e., no toilet paper - even the generic brands gone. Large cases of water were also gone although expensive individual bottles of water were still available.

The meat department was almost bare with some scattered stuff that had been pulled forward - although they were restocking that while I was there. Rice and beans were about gone except for some scattered bags here and there. Pasta section was slowly diminishing. Produce was almost untouched and stocked. Dairy was fine.

When I stopped by my local pharmacy, they actually had a couple packs of TP but had signs at the register indicating that they were out of - "Hand sanitizer, alcohol, masks, gloves" (and possibly a few other items like Lysol I think).

One thing I haven't seen mentioned here with respect to the TP situation was that some of us recall the media frenzy around what happened in Venezuela when that country started to collapse and TP was one of the first things that they had shortages of on and off over the past 7 years due to governmental policies and an economic meltdown, among other things.