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Flour is difficult to buy in some areas. It seems that lots of people have suddenly started making bread. I wonder how long they will keep doing it. What's interesting is how few online stores have the ability to show only things that are in stock. We never thought this would be a useful feature.

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What I've personally found frustrating: I'm looking for things (yeast and flour) that I know will be back in stock eventually; it would be nice if sites would let me backorder it so I can get into the queue for when they have stock again rather than having to check on it constantly.

I think it's a difficult feature because it has to be real-time, so it's usually left out on purpose.

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