Direct retail / individual sales are always the least important and the first to get restricted amounts of supply so that large orders can be filled. There is a queue and lots of orders are moving through it, you personally just don't see this.
Depending on the product, volume orders for high-end ICs are typically running between 52 and 72 weeks of lead time at the present, and it's been this way for many months now. So the orders that are getting filled today for parts were placed in early 2021 in most cases.
This is generally very difficult for retailers, because they have had to come up with capital to have a year's worth of orders in the pipeline. So they've been having to stock fewer things -- only what they are absolutely sure will sell -- and can't use real-time sales data to estimate the next month's order.
Welcome to the new normal, it'll be this way for at least another year or two, minimum (until new factories get built plus pre-pandemic levels of productivity, for the most part).
i guess you dont' know the world of shoes and hypebeast. The primary "value" of the industry is scarcity alone. The sneaker market side of it is worth $100bil alone.