Flour is scarce at the supermarket shelf level - getting it into small bags seems to be part of the problem.

By Pepper Parr

March 27^th, 2020

BURLINGTON, ON

One of the things that struck us as we spent some time in supermarkets – the shelves with flour were empty!

Empty shelves – been that way for a few days.

Were people hoarding the product?

We reached out to Ron Foxcroft whose Fluke Transport has 150 trucks on the road moving product from manufacturers and processors to supermarkets and asked if he could shed some light on why there is a shortage of flour – at least at the supermarket level.

There are 150 of Fluke trucks on the roads running between Ontario, New York state and Pennsylvania

Foxcroft came back to us with this:

Institutions and homes are using lots of flour.

We are trucking 5 to 10 loads a day of bulk flour for commercial use.  Bakeries, etc. etc.

There is a challenge getting labour to put it in smaller bags and getting labour to put it on store shelves.

It takes time to load, unload, and put on shelves.

It just seemed odd to us that something as basic as flour would not be on the shelves – bread shelves were stocked.

We’ll keep an eye on it.