Long lines reported at Target amid widespread
register outages
CNN Business,
by
Jackie Wattles
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
6/15/2019 5:07:27 PM
Target on Saturday acknowledged guests were "unable to make purchases" at its stores, as shoppers took to social media to complain that cash registers weren't working.
In a tweet from one of its official accounts, Target (CBDY)said that it's "aware of a systems issue in store and are working as quickly as possible to get this fixed."
"Our teams are troubleshooting now and we apologize for the inconvenience. We will provide an update as soon as possible," the company said in a separate tweet.(Snip)Social media users reported cash registers were not functioning properly at dozens of stores across the country and posted images of long lines.
I quit shopping at Target because I have never been confused about which restroom to use.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Videodrone 6/15/2019 5:33:48 PM (No. 98928)
While I don't shop at Target (none within 50 miles) my only comment is;
"This is only a test!"
What if ALL electronic transactions are shut down? Think about it and take a look at what is coming!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/15/2019 5:37:31 PM (No. 98929)
Golly, at $15 an hour I would have thought your cashiers could add up a purchase and make change. They used to teach that in grade 3.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
panther361 6/15/2019 5:46:17 PM (No. 98933)
Putting all of our eggs into an electronic basket with little to no alternatives at the ready will mature into a huge blunder. Like handcuffing the citizens and handing the key to our enemies.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Vesicant 6/15/2019 6:17:29 PM (No. 98941)
The cash registers probably went transgender, and the computers are now processing 1s, 0s, and ?s.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
watashiyo 6/15/2019 6:38:40 PM (No. 98945)
Hate to say this to the customers.... Good for you, "for shopping at Target"!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Calico Al 6/15/2019 6:52:33 PM (No. 98951)
I had this happen to me at a Lowes in San Clemente,CA. No one knew how to male out a sales slip or give change like they did before computers. It also happened at a DMV in SC. They had to send people home. At another time. In the 1980s when I was operating heavy equipment the Caterpillar Co computers were down for a hole day. They lost 20 Million that day and a lot of the construction companies lost money because their repair time was delayed.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/15/2019 7:45:56 PM (No. 98967)
Probably another computer virus assault - poor Target. Couldn't have happened to a nicer company.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bamboozle 6/15/2019 8:56:57 PM (No. 98984)
It doesn't matter which store, Target, one of the airlines whose reservation system crashes, or the bulb and battery store whose point of sale system is down for a couple of hours. The point is that our society has become very brittle, too much dependence on complex computer networks which due to their complexity are prone to widespread outages. Hospitals which are dependent on electronic medical records and computer imaging systems. Fast food restaurants dependent on computer cash registers and employees who can no longer make change (useless anyway if the customer want to use a debit card). The drive to cashless commerce makes this trend all the more dangerous. Remember, it isn't just Target folks.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
hershey 6/15/2019 9:15:56 PM (No. 98990)
I quit shopping at Target when they came out as anti-gun....no wanna my guns, no getta my money....
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
chumley 6/15/2019 9:53:32 PM (No. 98996)
I wouldn't think cash purchases would be a big problem, but so many nowadays use credit cards for almost everything. Me included. No computer and credit cards are no good. This could get ugly quick if this was a dry run for something bigger.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 6/15/2019 11:21:19 PM (No. 99033)
Remember the old days when a cashier ‘rang things up’ on a manual cash register, (or even with a pad and pencil and made change out a cigar box full of coins and bills), and could make change without a computer telling him / her how much to give?
My Mom taught me how to make change, ‘count it back’ properly, when I was about 8 years old and embarking on my first business venture... A Kool-aid / Lemonade stand.
Every time in the last 20 years that I’ve been to a business with ‘the system down’, they have refused to make any sales until the system was back up. Even if it takes days.
The town I lived in until recently, about twenty years ago was surrounded by forest fires that blocked the highways that lead in or out of town, and burned down the electrical system and the telephone and cable (internet) system. The only businesses that would do business were the mom & pop places that still normally did business the old way. Everyone else refused to sell anything, with food spoiling in the refrigerators and freezers; they would rather let it rot than take cash and screw up their computerized inventory.
And forget about buying gasoline to try to escape on the ‘secret’ back roads that only a few people know about. Not only did the pumps not work with no electricity, there wasn't a gas station in town that would / could sell it to me for cash anyway.
And emergency services were unprepared too; I actually loaned the emergency dispatcher for the Police Department and Fire Department a generator and a couple of ‘jerrycans’ of gas to run the base station radios. And a contractor business with gravity fed gasoline and diesel fuel tanks kept the cop cars and fire engines running so that they could get around and use their mobile radios.
It was then that I realized how fragile our modern computerized society was, even though I had been a sort of casual ‘prepper’for years.
It was a nervous six days before they got the fires under some control and restored electricity and wired communications. I couldn’t leave myself despite being capable of it, because I was taking care of two elderly and partially disabled parents who weren’t able to travel the back roads to get out of there.
Oh, and after three days, the town water system was dry. Once the gravity tanks on the hills ran dry, there was no way to refill them, without splicing in industrial grade three-phase 480V Generators... Of which none existed in town, other than the one providing life support at the hospital. I had to ration the 20 gallons of water I just happend to have had stored in the garage to wash hands and flush toilets once or twice a day.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Safari Man 6/16/2019 1:37:38 AM (No. 99068)
People at the Target in Dominican Republic all died
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jacksin5 6/16/2019 10:37:05 AM (No. 99263)
It takes situations like this to expose how fragile the new electronic world can be. Having lived in Northern Maine, where power outages are frequent, I've always had my homes prepared for extended outages. Now in Florida, nothing has changed. When my wife asked me what we'll do if a hurricane occurs, I explained the drill. There are 5 cases of water in the closet, 10 gallons of gas in the shed, the generator has been serviced and is tied into the house wiring, and we have a spare freezer stocked with food. I also have a battery operated multi-band radio, and a propane gas camp stove. I don't have enough capacity to run the HVAC system, but you can't have everything.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 6/16/2019 10:41:16 AM (No. 99269)
Another story showed dozens of abandoned shopping carts while the outage was still ongoing. In some cases groceries that need refrigeration were left to rot.
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