Waitrose pretty much had everything in stock today. The apocalypse has been shelved for the middle classes at least.
But still no flour or baking powder in the Canary Wharf shop when a kind neighbour went shopping for us yesterday. My ability to make cakes as thank yous for shopping favours is getting rapidly diminished.
Apparently it's down to a shortage of bags.
There's no problem with flour production keeping up with demand. The problem is that a significant proportion of flour produced is now required direct to the public rather than indirectly (people buying baked goods and the flour going to the food manufacturers).
The flour producers are built around the majority of flour being bagged in 16kg+ bags and they can't easily adapt things to supply domestic sized bags of 1kg-2kg.
This means my own FirstWorldProblem is that I can't get hold of any strong white flour and fast action yeast to be able to bake some cinnamon buns (soon my pretties, soon).