Dear New York Times, $1.09 for a can of pumpkin pie filling is not a 'wallop'. Best, Retiring Guy

 

Pearl-clutching over a First World problem.

Woodman's Grocery photos by Retiring Guy

New York Times, 10/25/2021

Panic buying:  From toilet paper to pumpkin pie filling.

Thanksgiving 2021 could be the most expensive meal in the history of the holiday. 

Caroline Hoffman is already stashing canned pumpkin in the kitchen of her Chicago apartment when she finds some for under a dollar. She recently spent almost $2 more for the vanilla she’ll need to bake pumpkin bread and other desserts for the various Friendsgiving celebrations she’s been invited to.

And it's not as though the shelves are bare.