I work in a major big box home improvement store. Supply disruption is a real thing. Lots of empty shelf space.
Maybe worse even for local mom and pop operations. Local hardware 'everything' store, I asked them about canning lids, didn't have any and said they were having trouble getting pretty well everything they stock. I work in a small hospital, when this all started and we were trying to order masks and such, they would check our history and see we are small pickins and wouldn't even deal with us, they were saving all the supplies for the big hospitals who order things by the thousands.
Ok. Thanks. I mostly shop at grocery and various small merchants. No serious supply problems at any of them. But we did have a couple of items fail to arrive from amazon recently. One sold directly by amazon and they candidly said they couldn’t get it ( though it’s easily available elsewhere on the web and regular store so that’s what we did). Second item was sold by a private company just using the amazon site for marketing. They lied about shipping the item, giving a cock and bull story that clearly didn’t ring true. And the post office said they never received it. Grocery store is full of stuff including papayas from Hawaii and figs from Greece and cheese from Switzerland and beer from Mexico. No supply problems there where it counts , ha! Thanks