I placed a Whole Foods order for delivery a little while ago, as I have a number of times in the past since this pandemic started. They text me if/when a product is out of stock. It seems to be that they are frequently out of stock of several different products they clearly advertise online as still being available. Sometimes I wonder if they are really out of stock or if they are just trying to get me to agree to substitute a different (and more expensive) product so they can add to my final bill. Texts are just flooding in. I wanted naan bread, but they wanted to give me pita bread. No, not the same thing! My husband wanted plain epsom salt, but they wanted to give us lavender scent. Ok, but it's 50 cents more. I wanted burger for kafta kabab, but they say it's out and want to send me bbq flavor burger. No, kafta kabab doesn't use bbq flavor burger. Sorry!

The Whole Foods near me is not in the middle of nowhere. I wonder why they STILL can't keep shelves stocked. I think some people have started returning to stores for shopping, but many are still ordering online. When you look at the coronavirus maps across the US, my state's and NY state's numbers have reduced a lot, but then are now leveling, but not zero. We have to be very careful. As of the last time I announced this, California has remained number 2 (after New Jersey was # 2 for a long time), Texas has now become #3, and New Jersey now # 4. It looks like Florida will take over #4 pretty soon, unless New Jerseyans get too lax. Illinois is not far behind that.