First it was the point of sale price hikes, then today I was browsing around a major high street retail computer store when I spotted this printed out and scattered amongst the computers and external storage devices.
A visit to two competing retailers across the city confirmed a shortage of external hard drives with only the higher end Media & Home NAS devices on the shelves. When I asked retail assistants if they were due to receive any new stock soon one told me they were informed by their parent company that any deliveries before the end of the year should be considered a stroke of good luck.
