Hi Steve, I work at a grocery store, part of a huge chain. Normally, when
we are out of an item that is in our flyers, we can write a rain check for
the customer to purchase within the month. There have been a few times
lately, when we have an item on our flyers, the distributor is totally out
of the item and we can't write rain checks as they don't know if we will be
able to get that item again. One time last week the actual company (not
just the distributor) had no more of this item in stock. So there are
shortages up here in Canada too

Jan 30, 2016