Retail Insiders.. are you getting shipments?

I’ve noticed TJ Max, Marshall’s and Ross are depressingly bare. It makes me so sad. I know nothing about their business models.

Canning jars are nowhere to be found. Usually there are stacks in all kinds of stores.

TJ Max shelves seems to be empty (can't get merchandise from Bankrupt Retail stores)?

I am interested because we are getting close to buy retail stocks. Anyone seeing this as well?

I work at a major hobby store, coastal nc. I have a retail background and am aware retail orders at least a year in advance. Early into covid, I sat in on a conference call with industry leaders who were projecting the supply result of the virus and china shipments. They had said that the ships would stop delivering, but from a retail aspect, there would be a 'fire sale' till the last piece was sold, with no advance notice to the public. I have been observing the store inventory since then, in all stores I enter.
I have noticed the ross, tj max type stores looking like a mess, with no other items except clothes. No sheets, towels, bedspreads, home decor, etc.
As for the hobby store, I work in fabric. Fabric is a booming dept because of the people making masks. Fabric is coming from india, viet nam and mexico. Some from china. I don't know if these are previous inventory or current shipments.
One isle of artists canvas was empty for 4 weeks, but now has some.
When the store first reopened in June, the christmas and fall was still in place. They packed up christmas but left out fall and put out spring and 4th july. In july they discounted all spring. in august they began putting out christmas. I am a new hire but am aware that a lot of christmas they brought out was what they had packed up a few months earlier.
Trucks run every fri but i am not privy to know what they deliver, I just put up fabric.
I too, am watching and trying to figure it out. Funny, I was just gonna post this week asking anyone if they new if the ships are coming into the ports. I remember the ups vids of la a few months ago and the driver would go down there everyday but there was nothing to pick up. I wonder if that has changed?

I work part time for one of the nation's biggest auto parts suppliers. No holiday shipments at all, has been a noticeable disruption in the supply chain with some spots sitting for weeks or longer empty because we just can't get stuff in. Corporate is making a major push to partner up with other businesses for certain goods and services, nobody is getting raises and they are pushing like crazy to get people buying online. Most other part time employees there seem to be in agreement that most (if not all of us) will be lucky to have a job a year from now. I own my own small business which pays the bills so I am not as worried as some of them who will truly be up feces creek if that happens.

At the current rate our nation and world is headed we should be in a hot war with China and their American Antifa militia by that point after a full economic collapse so none of that will matter anyway.