I walked into a Verizon reseller in Michigan yesterday and asked if they had the Droid 3 in stock so I could show it to my mom. They told me that it wasn't out yet. I said it came to stores on the 14th, they said no, that was online. To which I said that was the 7th online. They then said that the release date would be the 28th, and I walked out.
On a side note, they had a whole room of a strip mall, and only one tiny table in the center with 15 feet of space left and right, then one desk 25 feet back from that. And the table was 25 feet from the door.
And that table had 4 phones, but 6 more empty holders for phones.
In short, I'm not going back.