If you need an Echo before Christmas, better try an Amazon physical store

Supplies of Amazon's Echo devices are spotty to non-existent on the company's website, according to The Wall Street Journal, and yet the company still has supplies available in its three brick and mortar stores. The inconsistency in availability across its channels is most likely not by design. The Journal says that the Echo was sold out last week on Amazon.com but still available via the company's Prime Now quick delivery service in a number of cities for a while longer.