In April 2020 I was in Mexico City, and needed to get a new Apple 30W charger for my M1 Air. After scouring a ton of local tech shops to not avail^, I finally trekked to the official flagship Apple store. And they had exactly ONE in stock.
It completely surprised me that even the official store serving a city of millions had such a limited inventory. And it's not even like it's an esoteric product, the 30W comes standard with all new Air laptops!
(They did say they get shipments from the US daily and could have one delivered the following day if they happened to be out, but I wanted to avoid another hr+ trek that way if possible. I've heard of JIT inventory managememt, but to keep it THAT thin at such a major retail location really blew me away!)
^Some had lower wattage Apple chargers, but not a single one had 30W or above.
It completely surprised me that even the official store serving a city of millions had such a limited inventory. And it's not even like it's an esoteric product, the 30W comes standard with all new Air laptops!
(They did say they get shipments from the US daily and could have one delivered the following day if they happened to be out, but I wanted to avoid another hr+ trek that way if possible. I've heard of JIT inventory managememt, but to keep it THAT thin at such a major retail location really blew me away!)
^Some had lower wattage Apple chargers, but not a single one had 30W or above.