I tried buying the last one at a reasonable price and it was gone before I could choose shipping (a transaction isn't finalized until the shipping is chosen). There won't be any more that will ship before 1-2 weeks, depending on the item.
Their Prime Pantry service is grouping shipments together regardless of the guaranteed delivery date, which means that your order arrives on the latest date among the advertised delivery dates for items in your cart.<p>This is recent behavior and not a function of order preferences. I have placed three orders that were grouped together (send order as one shipment) despite having selected the earlier Prime delivery option. This started on the same day that I received an order that was broken up (ship as available), which is what usually happens with Prime Pantry orders to my address.<p>In other words, my Prime orders make me think that Amazon is experiencing a massive ordering surge, and is grouping items together in an atypical way because they want to reduce the shipping strain.
This is an item that's usually not much in demand, so while it being sold out may be a canary in the coal mine to indicate that many people are prepping, I wouldn't start to worry about shortages until they start to run out of beans and rice.<p>Even then, the shortage will likely be short-lived as preppers stock up and stop buying more.
I flagged this because this because the title sounds much scarier than the actual content; "I couldn't buy this thing on amazon"<p>So...?