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DCPCFML:
but in the rural areas they are not getting restocked and so a lot of empty shelves are appearing and staples missing.

I live in…

A village called ‘Greater Widdling on the Green’ and both our little shops are chock full to the brim. Not an empty shelf anywhere. The usual trolley of half-price items with expiring sell by dates is a full as ever.
For the hell of it, I’ve been to the little village shop in ‘Widdling on the Green’ (you can see the church spire from my kitchen window) and that too was stocked as normal.

You keep making stuff up to suit your ‘end of the world is nigh’ crusade.