Everything is in short supply and selling for top price. Ammo is also hard to find. Remington must really stink these days.
Outsourcing production of classic Remington models (700 rifles, 870 shotguns, etc) and the creation of lines of cheaper, lower-quality ripoffs of those models has a lot to do with it.
It’s their QC. New guns don’t feed well, seen a couple out of headspace, front sight blades dovetailed in at a crooked angle, rounds popping out of the feed lips and bounce out of the ejection port when you try to close the bolt, things like that. Been happening for about 10 years or so