In 2019 pre-covid my local grocery had an entire half of an aisle just for potato chips with tortilla chips/other chips on the other side of the aisle.
Now there is one aisle of chips and the other side is crackers but mostly saltines. I think half of the aisle is saltines now.
That’s 100% what is happening. They can order whatever they want, but that doesn’t garuntee that the distributor has anything or even cares to keep the order correct
In 2019 pre-covid my local grocery had an entire half of an aisle just for potato chips with tortilla chips/other chips on the other side of the aisle.
Now there is one aisle of chips and the other side is crackers but mostly saltines. I think half of the aisle is saltines now.
Sounds like they're trying to hide empty shelves by filling them up with saltines lol.
That is exactly what is happening.
One of the other aisles is 40% cans of various chili.
I think the folks doing the orders for local stores are buying the limit for items and getting random large shipments for things.
Such efficiency!
That’s 100% what is happening. They can order whatever they want, but that doesn’t garuntee that the distributor has anything or even cares to keep the order correct