When the pandemic began last year, many staples like flour, beans and toilet paper went missing from grocery store shelves. While grocery supply has mostly stabilized, local grocery managers are still seeing shifting inventory, price fluctuations and random products out of stock.
“Each week there’s a surprise,” Olerud’s Market Center Sarah Swinton said earlier this month. “For a while there was no ricotta cheese. I thought, okay I’ll try to overcompensate and then I got…