Stop in for a cup of coffee

While that is a huge problem, it doesn’t explain why your area appears to be worse than other for empty shelves.
No it doesn’t. Not fully. I have a theory, but I don’t want to go down that rabbit hole. I’ll just say it’s quite interesting to see the map on the tracking computer at work of the areas with the slowest deliveries and this, the worsening inventories. Of everything.