I can't help but wonder if this "scarcity" is deliberate. Let's see, we've had flash shortages, graphics card shortages, RAM shortages and now CPU shortages, all within the last 12 months.
The main result from the shortages - driving up prices, in some case by as much as 60%.
As IBJEEPR said, I too am looking to buy a I5-8600K, or maybe I7-8700 and a new motherboard, so that I can support 4K UHD on my HTPC (The Blu-ray drive requires ata least 7th Gen CPU), but the Kaby Lake is such a pitiful upgrade and the prices are still high it would be just dumb for me to go for 7700[k].. So we wait...
If while researching AMD over the next couple of weeks I find that Ryzen will do the job, Intel will lose yet another sale from me.