I still see bags of the dried ones at every grocery store I shop at. I don't ever look for the canned ones, though.

I order them all the time from Fresh Direct, and never got an out-of-beans message. Maybe someone in the ordering dept just has a cannellini blind spot.

There are canned cannellinis aplenty in Chicago.

I happen to have just bought a can of their 365 Cannellini beans yesterday in a Chicago Whole Foods.

Try giving the store a call sometime and ask the manager about it. He or she will probably be able to give you more answers about what they stock why and when than the other employees. Or, perhaps the manager is unaware that it's chronically under-stocked and may fix the problem if it's nicely brought to his attention.

Same problem at WF in Milwaukee! Have been unable to find cannellini beans there for months. However, the local megamarket always seems to have them. I think it might be a Whole Foods issue.

We haven't been able to find them anywhere here in the Philly suburbs!

They're almost always out at my neighborhood Trader Joe's, but that's the only place I've noticed. Weird!

SAME thing happened to me at my WF in Baltimore. They were out of the 365 brand so I splurged on a more expensive can. Maybe its a WF brand problem.

I had some trouble finding them at Shaws in the suburbs of Boston a few weeks ago!

I've had problems finding the dried ones in NYC- when I asked the guy at Food Emporium, he said that they were a "specialty" bean not in common use, and so they didn't stock them.

Internal Monologue: "Um... yeah. So, you don't cook, huh."

my trader joe's in los angeles was out of cannellini beans for about three weeks. i saw they were back on the shelves last weekend.

I have had a hard time finding them in the past. I did buy some from the Harris Teeter on Kalorama in DC that were GOYA brand. I think I've also bought other brands at the HT this winter.

I use lots of cannellini beans and have had the hardest time finding dried ones. None of my local markets have had them. I did find them in a store about 20 miles away and bought 4 lbs. just so I would have them. I thought I was crazy so I'm glad to know it's not just me.

Yes! There haven't been any cannellini beans at the Safeway I shop at in DC for several weeks - at least since the blizzards. I was just figuring it had to do with their usual random empty spots on shelves. Maybe the snow storms had some effect?

I had this problem a few years ago when our local Whole Foods was disco'd the glass jars of them. We can now usually find them in their 365 brand. We miss the glass bottles.

Yeah, I've noticed this in the last year too. I guess it's possible that most of the organic supply comes from just a couple of big farms that had bad years. But I don't have any data to support that.

me too!

Brand new store opened in the neighborhood and guess what can of bean flew off the shelf, the cannellini beans. I had purchased two cans, went back the next week and had trouble finding them. Guess what, there was just one on the shelf and I got it. I have one pound of dried in the pantry, should I list them on EBay?

We've got tons of cannelini beans in West Hollywood!

I buy tons and tons of these babies because I make a mean hummus.

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Don't know if it's just in and around NYC, but Goya products are all grouped together rather than the beans being with other beans, etc. If you don't usually go down that aisle, give it a try.

Yikes! I hope not...I haven't had any trouble finding them. Just made an excellent white chili using cannellini beans tonight! It's here:
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I manage a restaurant that uses them regular. I haven't seen any price spikes (generally the first sign of a shortage). It may be a WH issue.

The Harris Teeter here in Charlotte only ever has one brand (never a store brand) and usually only a few cans. I haven't seen them dried either.

That is strange, all the stores I shop at here in Denver (Whole Foods included) has them every time I need them... maybe it is an east coast thing?

It might be a regional thing - the Whole Foods stores mentioned as not having them in these reader comments are all stores in WF's Mid-Atlantic region. I've seen that at my store, too! Probably something in the grocery buyer's roster that gets overlooked. Worth speaking up about - sounds like it might be an easy fix!

I buy a can or two a week in Chicago and have had no problems.

WF did have a soup recipe in their January fliers that included cannellini beans...that might have led to a shortage at some stores.

Hmm, I've noticed a lack of them at Kroger's here in North Texas. Also we seem to have difficulty in getting garbanzo/chick peas as well. Kroger, Tom Thumb, and WF seem to have been out of them, off and on, since last summer (I have a finicky dog with pancreatitis (sp?) so chick peas are one of her primary food stuffs - and carrots and broccoli). So the lack of chickpeas is a bit of a problem.

I don't have a problem getting them in Astoria, NY.

I couldn't find them this weekend at three stores, not even
dried. I'm in SoCal.

they never seem to have them at my local trader joe's (brooklyn) but haven't had any problems getting 5 cans per order via fresh direct.

I experienced a shortage a few weeks ago in New Orleans, so I bought quite a few cans when I saw them saw them stocked again.

I've had trouble finding cannellinis too! at Fresh Market (WF knockoff) in Indy. I thought it was just me.

When I lived in Boston it was never an issue, but here in Oregon I've had bad luck, too. And my co-op, which stocks all kinds of legumes in bulk, never has them. I just assumed they weren't as popular here in the Pacific Northwest, but now I see that the problem is possibly much larger!

Ask the manager to order them for you - if you got a case you would get a 10% discount and it sounds like you are going through a lot of them anyways so you might like to look into it. If they are having trouble getting them in they will certainly tell you then!

Here in Houston I've had no trouble finding them canned and dried. But I'd just ask the manager what's going on w/ the beans, or check another store.

Oh, if you go to an ethnic market, Goya brand has them in dried form at least.

I can almost never find them in normal grocery stores here in Vancouver, BC.

It's tragic, I love white beans (almost as much as I love watching the hockey once every four years).