It’s hard to stock up here. A couple weeks ago I tried to buy flour and they had 3 10lb bags. Two were ripped open and the third I had to crawl on my hands and knees and use a long spoon from the display to dig out from the back corner. Same with the sugar. I’m not talking just one brand of sugar but ALL the sugar shelves were empty. My one and only bleepin’ well known chain store (HEB) always has empty shelves. If the weekly ads have a sale, poof!, that shelf is empty.
Sugar beets and stevia are already on my wish list and I’ve printed out how to turn them into sugar.
We have 4 grocery stores here, and a Dollar store plus several convenience stores including Casey’s, so food’s available at various prices.
The local Country Mart has the best pricing usually for most stuff.
Our population is only 3000, but we are the county seat, so we do have people coming in from the farms and countryside to stock up.