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Interesting.

I should qualify: I'm in San Francisco and have been to two different grocery and several convenience stories over the past few days.

I was in one convenience store today and I noticed the owner had stocked some shelves normally filled with cookies and snacks with different kinds of canned beans. My first thought was, "smart". My second thought was, "sigh but they're the only completely full shelves in the store".

> fresh produce is fine and things like pasta, rice, baked beans and frozen fish fingers are long gone

This is exactly what I noticed in the local super market in Boston as well.

Really weird in our local Sainsburys this morning - pasta and toilet paper shelves completely empty also no tomato soup. But plenty of everything else!