The Grocer says.. "Let me see if I've got your question straight, madam. 'Why is it that some shops seem to have a good stock of unrationed articles that are short, while others a few streets away have none?' Well, it isn't that there's any monkeying about with distribution. They share the goods out to retailers very fairly indeed, believe me. But it stands to reason, if you stop to think, that supplies don't reach every blessed shop at the same minute—or the same week, come to that. And the man who's stocked up today.