Is the competition dying and am I bad for hoping so?

I know I am! But it dwells on my mind quite a lot. We often talk about a potential Forrest Gump moment. [You may recall that in the film Forrest buys a shrimping boat but can't catch a thing until one day a hurricane takes out all the other boats and from then on there's more shrimp than they can handle and become rich off the proceeds.] So I keep trying to find out anything I can from suppliers about how the market is faring overall and see if I can't sniff out any gossip about our competition. Maybe there are other ways of getting this sort of information I haven't thought of....