So, what was missing during your weekly grocery shopping trip.
Green onions
Multi-colored bell peppers
Almond Milk (unsweetened)
Orange Juice
Parsley
Tissues
Frozen peas
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We’re out on the WA cost this weekend. Everyone inland is going “Oh no!” And the locals are going “Aw hell, they closed the beach.”
reactions on both sides of the Cascades agree very often. Actually, we’re doing the beach thing ourselves, headed south to Florida. Our friends will let us know if the ice storm takes down our power — all too often, or we’d be planning to admire the icicles and listen for falling trees from in front of a fire.
Enjoy your tsunami.
or milk to refried beans and, voila, bean soup! It was fine, though it invites adventurous addition of culinary delights from the pantry.
Hope you stay feeling okay and interested in your explorations.
The only fresh meats were skinless chicken breast, hamburger and Brontosaurus sized pork chops 
no mushrooms, green beans or rice 
...and I can honestly say there was nothing we wanted that I didn't find. And in fact, most of the things we bought (Our staples) were on sale. Sunny D was 10 bottles for 10 dollars. We also shop at Costco and have yet to not find what we were looking for. 
The store manager is my ex-bil and he said they were out of lots of things because the weather was peasant today and people panic shopped so as to avoid going out on Saturday or Sunday. He said 95% of the empty shelves were for that reason, not supply chain issues. They did not anticipate the demand so did not order enough quantity.
Plus he says they are now much more precise in their ordering to try and keep only what is needed in the store and anticipate demand. This frees up the warehouses to send more things to other stores. They are still working on improving their shopping models so we still do have occasional empty shelves every week (most ly different every week too) - but not because of actual shortages.
South Hills Pittsburgh
still room for more precision with just-in-time stocking. Before Covid, I sometimes wondered if little elves were watching and running out to replenish as soon as I took all but the last two of something on the shelf. Empty was pretty rare. 
I'd love to know more about shopping models. Once read that big chains were dealing with conditions in part by offering fewer selections of basically the same things, but that was all. There must be many strategies.
Vanilla Swiss Almond Häagen-Dazs 
Everything else seemed to be well stocked here in the l.a. area.
bunch of things tomorrow before possible big snow Sunday night (though they say it might turn to rain 🤞🤞
, so I'll see. Most of the time I've been ok.
Cream cheese esp. flavored (Target and Walmart has the Philadelphia brand but I can't find any in the grocery stores)
Doritos Flamin hot nachos (cannot find anywhere)
Baked Lay's
Ocean Spray Cranberry Grape
Those are the only items I've had issues with so far. In the latter part of last year, I had to do without bread for a while (which probably was a good thing 
). We only eat a specific type of bread.
I've seen empty spots on shelves but those aren't items I shop for.
Nothing has changed too significantly around here now or since the Pandemic hit (Indianapolis).
