To prevent shortages, grocery chains, food brands prep for months ahead

Remember March, with its panic buying and pantry filling? Consumers’ shopping habits at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic provided grocers and food manufacturers with some unexpected lessons.  Now, six months after shoppers emptied shelves of toilet paper, disinfecting wipes, meat, frozen foods and more, stores and suppliers are preparing for a fall and winter that’ll bring the usual holiday rush but also the strong possibility of another surge in Covid-19 cases.   “We started talking…