Who is at fault here?! Is it the retailers themselves, or have Nintendo not sent anything to them to use as POS or marketing?!
My sister works for Sainsbury and apparently there was next to nothing in marketing materials sent to her store (Ladbroke Grove, London).
Skylanders is being pushed big though apparently...
Also in terms of stocking the Wii U, her store received very low allocation...and it seemed to be more of the basic than premium. They still had a few basics all weekend apparently...and the demand was for the premium...which is kind of obvious I guess.
I think the UK as a whole got very small allocation...and it seems the basic is the SKU that is readily available...I mean Amazon UK didn't even sell-out of the basic right? When ever I checked it was Premium and Zombi U SKU's that were sold out.