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The problem for the small, independent shops is that they can't get inventory to sell, so they have to jack up the price on what's left to make rent. It was nice when everything flew of the shelves in November and December, but now they've got nothing to sell.

My local independent shop has managed by keeping large static orders with its suppliers. They say their orders get filled first because they are ordering the same as always. (We were selling five ARs a month when you couldn't give them away, so now we expect our same 5 ARs a month.) They aren't marking anything up, but are limiting quantity.