Stores running out of stock and Discounts: Haswell MBP coming?

[UBS28]

I noticed many stores have lowered their prices of the rMBP's and some even stopped selling rMBP's. So either

1. rMBP's sales are terrible and stores can't be bothered selling them anymore
2. Stores have received news from Apple that Haswell rMBP's are shipping soon.

I think it's number 2

 

[Bear]

I think it's closer to #3:

3) Apple has stopped supplying stores with the aforementioned products due to an impending product update. The stores themselves have no idea what is actually going on other than they're not getting stuff to sell currently.

 

[aristobrat]

I think it's closer to #3:

3) Apple has stopped supplying stores with the aforementioned products due to an impending product update. The stores themselves have no idea what is actually going on other than they're not getting stuff to sell currently.

I agree.

Apple tells them nothing 'official', but the retailers have learned how to take clues from Apple's supply chain.