(I take it you mean the cookie shelving) Been seeing that a lot in a local WalMart, in everyday items. Large gaps, two-three feet wide in some shelves. OK, there's been a damaging frost in Brazil, but their ENTIRE coffee section was stripped clean - reminded me of the toilet paper mania.
And not only scarcities, but their delivery system - in the last three weeks, three out of four on-line orders were shipped to wrong out of state cities. The other is listed as delayed (canned /sliced potatoes, sliced carrots and beets, etc. Hardly exotic foods.)
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