I've thought the same thing, fren. In fact, I think I posted about this very issue not that long ago.

I've noticed that you can get everything you need, just not in the same shopping trip. For over three weeks Aldi's was completely out of pasta of any kind or shape. Now, it's back. I thought at the time how hard is it to make pasta? It's what -- flour, egg and water -- and there's no shortage of any of these ingredients.

Once the pasta was back, then other things disappeared briefly, only to make a come-back in a week or two.

I've heard people say that the problem is sometimes the packaging. For awhile here there was a bottle shortage. You could only buy beer in cans -- not bottles. Weird -- especially given that glass is recyclable.

So, our solution is to stock up on what we need when we see it.

Strange thing is, it's only food that we're seeing this with. We've been to Home Depot and they seem to be fully-stocked. Been to a couple of other types of stores and they've seemed stocked, too.