SOTP address (State Of The Parts ). oil filters

Not on topic, but sort of because its parts related. I was in a pep Boys store in the Edelbrock section, I bought a chromed steel fuel line because my line into my carb has too much rubber IMO, and the salesman said "this is a discontinued part so you wont be able to return it...' I was like "ok" I get it home and its missing the banjo bolt...sucks so now I'm looking for that, however, what's up with Discontinued Edelbrock parts? The guy then babbled on about supply chain issues, so is it discontinued or is it supply chain?
All of the Pep Boys auto parts stores around here, did a huge clearance and closed up. A couple of months later, they reopened as Autozones. The Pep Boys tire and auto centers stayed open through all of that.
One of their techs told me that Autozone bought up Pep Boys and all of them would do the conversion.