The empty shelves being seen in Anchorage mirror the situation nationwide, as a combination of the rapidly spreading omicron variant of COVID-19 and severe winter weather has added to existing supply and labor shortages.
, as a combination of the rapidly spreading omicron variant of COVID-19 and severe weather has added to existing supply and labor shortages.Some of the deliveries are made by truck, as drivers travel through Canada.
“For my choice, this is where I’d like to truck, and continue to truck,” said Roy Fischlin, a driver with Richner Trucking. He has spent the last 10 years delivering groceries and other items to stores, such as Walmart. Those runs from Washington State are about to become more difficult.against COVID-19 to enter that country. It reverses an earlier exemption for the drivers.
“There’s truckers that — probably about 80% of the truck drivers that I know that I run with out there are basically shutting down because they don’t want to get the vaccination,” Fischlin said. Meanwhile, shoppers around Anchorage should soon have more choices at the grocery store as more groceries arrived to refill empty shelves.