I first wrote about the 2021 canning lid shortage in March (Post #G21-003). The number of hits on that posting continues to ramp up, suggesting that, if anything, the lid shortage may be getting worse.
But how bad is it? How often are canners across the U.S. going to their local hardware or other stores and finding empty shelves where the lids ought to be? Am I getting hits from a few scattered localities where lids are unavailable? Or is this really a nation-wide shortage of lids? Continue reading Post #G21-025: Demonstrating the scope of the canning lid shortage via a random sample of Walmarts
