Target stores down

Sat Jun 15 23:49:25 UTC 2019

According to the news, sales associates can complete transactions using
their (very small) handheld units.

Frank

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From: NANOG <nanog-bounces at nanog.org> On Behalf Of Jared Mauch
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2019 4:27 PM
To: Andy Ringsmuth <andy at andyring.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Target stores down

I know what I was told and what I observed in store.

They said network issue but it looked more like application/database issue.

When they would Scan an item it would not stay scanned. It would delete
itself and provide an error (likely when it was recording the inventory
debit)

They would then manually enter the price and if it was taxable or not.

It impacted all their POS terminals. Sometimes it would scan and sometimes
not.

There is a mini story here about workflow and software improvement for this
exception path handling. Either way. Looked more like database and other
software issue than actual network issue.

Expect inventory to be messed up for a few weeks as a result.

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> On Jun 15, 2019, at 4:04 PM, Andy Ringsmuth <andy at andyring.com> wrote:
>
> Curious if anyone knows what happened (or is still happening) with the
global outage of POS systems at Target stores.
>
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