| crumas2 said: I stopped into one of our Best Buys here in Ohio, this evening, and went through the gaming section. They usually have quite a few Xbox 360 stacks but the shelves and nearby floor space were empty of systems. I asked one of the employees working in the area what was up, and he said they've been out of stock of all 360 models for a few days. He mentioned the Ultimate Alliance/Forza bundle had been depleting them fairly regularly since sometime in Oct.
I found this a little surprising considering I hadn't heard of the 360 being supply constrained. Anyone else seen this? |
I will tell you this, because I know it is fact through years of experience in logistics - during the holiday and around releases stores take in ALOT of extra stock so they are not short (if it's available). Once the first week or two is over, or the holiday has passed, they send alot of the excess back to their warehouse to be redistributed as needed, back to the same store or another store somewhere else. So they may have had stacks and stacks of 360's, the holiday came and went, it was always available and no one was unable to purchase one at any point. Now they may send back 90% of the left over stock, and perhaps then someone comes around and buys a few systems and now its time to replenish it.
That trend is most notable during DVD release days, follow it a week or two later and the 9 trillion copies the store had are gone.
