Disbelief when shops stop stocking your favorite food

I've barely seen Kelloggs Raisin Wheats in the past couple of years, but there's usually every other version of Wheats. For a few years I just assumed they were always selling out but then started to check the shelf tags and now I'm in total disbelief that Raisin Wheats are the least popular version of Wheats. Makes no sense to me at all.
You can still order them online but I feel like ordering food on the internet is maybe crossing a line that I shouldn't.

Waitrose used to do these amazing refrigerated toastable pancakes and they were genuinely one of the only foods I ever looked forward to. The stopped selling them about a year ago, stopped selling them online even, and have never been able to find anything to replace them with.
I just checked the Waitrose site and there's a couple that might be a new version. I'll check next time I'm in.

Could never work out why Tesco stocks Warburton's fruit loaf more often than their own superior fruit loaf, super weird.

sprouts, a (bad) stateside grocery chain, stopped selling garden of eatin' blue corn chips (and red hot blues). instead i see more of their own brand of thin cardboard chips 'made with avocado oil'. i'll never forgive them for it.

this has had the positive effect of me eating less of that processed crap, on the other hand.

I want the radioactive shrimp back

My thing is powdered milk. I have powdered milk in my coffee at work because it lasts forever, no-one steals it, I've got used to the taste, I always end up wasting liquid milk and I hate wasting things etc. But availability is irritatingly intermittent. Both Tesco and Sainsbury's go through periods when it just stops being available. There's Marvel, but it's far too expensive. I can't afford to keep a cow at home. I've advocated for livestock ownership at work, but despite numerous advantages the management refuse to spend money on cows.

E.g. a huge chunk of the reviews complain that it's not available:
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/267377676

It seems to be side-effect of complex, geopolitical economic factors involving (a) the relative value of cheese vs milk (b) the state of the baby milk powder market (c) industrial unrest (d) consumer demand etc. It's one of those products that's popular but not so popular that people would riot about missing it. I just had to get that off my chest.

oy Sprouts. don't get me started. I almost believed they tracked our buying habits so they could drop any product we liked. now I think they have a constant churn of new products /brands because of kickbacks and/or wholesale discounts offered to carry these new launches

Kroger's knockoff of Life cereal, "Living Well" — discontinued, boo.
Nissin Thai peanut noodles, discontinued, boo.
Aldi's peach-garlic salsa, maybe not discontinued, but I haven't seen it in the store in years, boo.

Sainsbury's used to have these single use coffee filters which folded out and sat on your cup and had coffee inside so you could just make a single drip coffee. abandoned because I guess people preferred coffee bags but I do not

They also used to have this mango chili sauce which was really good, but it disappeared around 2019, recently they have started selling another mango chili sauce but it is not the same

and obviously Ice Magic

trader joe's occasionally has these excellent spicy pickles (made in Bulgaria!) but when I go to look for them, it's a 50/50 chance they won't be there. That's less of a discontinuation and probably more supply chain wrinkles

(I think as the tariffs start to kick in, we'll start to see more disappearances like this)

oy Sprouts. don't get me started. I almost believed they tracked our buying habits so they could drop any product we liked. now I think they have a constant churn of new products /brands because of kickbacks and/or wholesale discounts offered to carry these new launches

― bryan, Wednesday, October 15, 2025 7:47 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah, terrible business selling wildly overpriced but low-quality 'health' food products, especially their store brand. my local one has a patience-trying cashier situation too. i can get better-quality food for literally half the price at trader joe's for the most part.

specialty products disappearing from tj's is now a regular part of the experience there unfortch, though i would throw a fit if their frozen chicken was no longer there.