causing these product shortages with this massive demand from people with -- from consumers with a lot of money burning a hole in their pockets. an ah-ha moment may have been in october when people were really out there shopping. retail sales numbers surged in october. there were 2 billion out of stock messages for online shopping when you went on to online shoping. so 2 billion messages and that could have been an ah-ha moment for consumers to really step tup and get their shopping done early because the reality is the supply chain shortages are no joke for retailers. it's been tough to stock their inventories ahead of the holiday shopping season. >> i feel like i wasted a drum roll on that. because the numbers were down. >> because they're spread out. they may be up for the year. the year is not over. >> the national retail federation will be coming out with their numbers. they not only track online but they track instore numbers as well. the reality is i think as we get closer and closer to christmas, it's probably going to be better for consumers to go ahead and go