My wife works at Target in the electronics section. She made some calls and asked upper management and found out something really strange...
Nintendo sends out an unspecified amount and so Target's internal system isn't updated to even inform their employees. All they know is when some might arrive. Sometimes they don't even know that.
I can't imagine only Target deals with that. I'm just gonna wait a week or two and see if this situation stabilizes.
Read the Console Wars book, they've been pulling this shit since the NES. How they think it benefits them in this day and age is beyond me.