[FishermanTim]

It started early last month when I went to #^&#^&#^&#^&'s looking for winter sports stuff IN FEBRUARY only to find that most of their store has been converted to handle all the baseball, soccer and summer sales they get in the coldest month of the year!

Then I went out to find some ice melt, as the 400 lbs I had picked up 2 years ago had finally run out. All the stores that would normally have it had either ran out (and never re-ordered) or just changed over to spring gardening (because we all need to be thinking of our garden projects that we won't be able to even think about starting until after easter!

Now I check in over a half dozen stores looking for wood pellets, and they too are out of stock. These same stores have gone into full time spring gardening mode.

I understand the need to rotate stock and even anticipate the upcoming seasons, but can we at least try to make it through the most difficult one BEFORE it's over and not right after it began?

It seems that there is a shortage of pellets and ice melt, and it appears that no one put any thought into the idea that maybe because it's winter, that maybe we may get snow and cold weather?
These same shopping Einsteins were patting themselves on the back because they made a killing buying baseballs, soccer cleats and swimsuit onesies!