The big corporate sporting goods stores like SW, Cabelas, etc were the ones around here that had some components during the shortages and had more components longer but they were selling “old stock” that they’d ordered before the shortage for less but during the shortage they raised those prices to meet the inflated market. Now the prices are coming down and availability went up but they want to continue asking inflated prices because they ordered it during the shortage when everything was ridiculously expensive. It never seems to work in reverse for oil companies and corporate gun and ammo companies. The older and cheaper products are brought up to current market prices because “the cost to replace it has gone up” but when the prices go down they don’t lower the price because “the cost to replace it went down” instead they use the excuse “well we bought it when the price was high and we can’t lose money on it”. They could sell it at cost and replace it with more reasonably priced inventory but if they hold out long enough they begin to set a new artificial baseline that even smaller shops will follow because it means more $money$.
