What our grocery store is out of

I went to the grocery store yesterday and here is what Finns are buying (based on which shelves are bare or patchy):

• soap & hand sanitizer (the only soap left on the shelf was specialized ‘intimate areas’ soap - if things get desperate maybe that will disappear, too)

• cleaning products, to a certain extent. There were some varieties still on the shelf, including lots of disinfecting wipes

• laundry detergent

• onions!

• bake-at-home bread, the kind you pop into the oven for 10 minutes or so to crisp it up

• UHT milk

• eggs

• canned food, except for certain kinds of tomato paste and the off-brand of tunafish

• candy, seriously - selection was patchy

• toilet paper, but still some left

• dried peas

• pasta

The store itself was not busy, though! Normal or even less-than-normal crowds.