Produce is first since it comes from the American south this time of year, next comes everything else.

I wish we had more first hand accounts instead of a ceo.

Here we go, it’s omicron disrupting the supply chain lol.

Just Google “canada shelves empty” and there’s all kinds of photos and articles.

Sands said things like cereals, soups and spices are getting harder to find in Western Canada, while Charlebois said perishables are posing a bigger problem in Atlantic Canada and Northern Ontario.

But the message from both experts is the same: This, too, shall pass.

"The shortages that we're experiencing right now … are temporary, and I can't emphasize enough that we don't want to see a resumption or return to panic-buying," Sands said. "That helps no one and hurts everyone."

But on the whole, he said, they are expected to be temporary while the country rides out the "tsunami" of Omicron.

So it's not as if there are truckloads of food piling up at the border, waiting to be delivered but for a lack of vaccinated truckers.