No trip to Target this afternoon: their computers/cash registers are down all across the country

[mnhtnbb]

Customers across the country have reported that Target employees were advising them that the retailer’s payment system was down, causing long lines to form in many locations. Based on reports from social media, the outage began sometime early Saturday afternoon.

Consumers described hours-long lines and confusion in stores across the country, with some saying that Target employees had turned away customers for two hours.

Target did not immediately return a request for comment, but did confirm the outage in replies on social media. “We are aware of a systems issue in store and are working as quickly as possible to get this fixed,” the company said on its AskTarget Twitter account in response to customers from Nevada, Minnesota and Texas.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/target-experiences-global-computer-systems-outage-affecting-stores-across-the-us-2019-06-15?mod=mw_latestnews


If you need a last minute Father's Day gift or supplies for a cookout, better head somewhere else!

[demmiblue]

1. ...

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[mnhtnbb]

4. Very funny!

[blogslut]

2. From the trenches :)

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Dan Clemens
? @dan_clemens

All the registers at #Target are down nationwide but we’re making the most of it!

[mnhtnbb]

3. Cute photo

But it won't be long before that toddler has had enough waiting in line!

[Leghorn21]

5. Poor Target, the workers are getting pounded!! "targetdown" is trending at #1

“to the woman who has called target 5 times in
the past 15 minutes: yes our registers are still
down. no we don’t know when they will be back
up again. please for the love of god leave us alone
sincerely, literally every team member #targetdown”

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STAY COOL, EVERYBODY!!

[spinbaby]

6. Whoa, glad I decided not to go

My autistic grandson is visiting and a favorite thing to do is visit the Target toy department. He’d have a complete meltdown.

[Generic Brad]

7. That happened to me in a Walmart two months ago

It was isolated to one store. Nearby construction caused a transformer to blow and their backup generator failed to kick in.

As the lines grew along with everyone’s impatience I remembered I once bought something in the electronics area from a clerk with a handheld device. I hightailed my cart there and lucked out. He was there with his portable device and it worked. It was only working with debit cards but I had one. I got out with my purchase while everyone else waited for what turned out to be hours.

Stuff happens.

[MichMan]

8. My wife just got back from there and reported no issues at all

[mnhtnbb]

9. News media reports they are back up nationally

but it was chaos for several hours nationwide.