Object of the Week

If Nobody Loves Grape-Nuts, Why Is It Sold Out Everywhere?

How a shortage of the most boring cereal turned it into a pandemic sensation

Published in

Marker

4 min readFeb 18, 2021

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A Grape-Nuts cereal box photoshopped onto a purple background with the text “Object of the Week” and a square frame surrounding the cereal box.

Object of the Week is a column exploring the objects a culture obsesses over and what that reveals about us.

Rob Walker

Written by Rob Walker

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Marker

Author The Art of Noticing. Related newsletter at https://robwalker.substack.com

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