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After massive Target outage, some stores say registers running again
- iNate2000 7y agoWe thought we were smart not to go to Costco on a Saturday...
- dba7dba 7y agoGoing to costco near closing time seems to help avoid crowd.
- Overtonwindow 7y agoI find Walmart at 2 AM to be the best time to buy groceries
- moocowtruck 7y agowas it caused by those pesky haskellers they employ?
- judge2020 7y agoUnless you get an ATM in there, getting pure paper registers won't fix everyone needing to pay via card.
- gilbetron 7y agoSpent an hour in line today, which would've been longer but the person in front of me gave up, and the person in front of her only rung up ~25% of her items. I had about 10 items and it took about 20 minutes to get everything scanned completely. I'm guessing a bad config pushed out that borked networking code so some poor router or server was doing all the work. Looking forward to the post mortem (yeah right).
- chrisseaton 7y ago> Spent an hour in line today Why on earth would you spend an hour in line at Target? Did you need to buy medication or something and it was the only option? I would have given up and gone elsewhere after three minutes.
- wodenokoto 7y agoSunk cost
- symplee 7y agoFurthermore: escalation of commitment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment
- bayareanative 7y agoThat almost perfectly describes those of Gaelic lineage.
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoDepending on what you're buying (groceries for a family, say), driving to another store and picking everything out again could easily take well over an hour.
- Overtonwindow 7y agoWhich begs the question, why did they push out an update or a configuration change in the middle of the day?
- chrisseaton 7y agoWhen should you push out an update? At the start of the day? At the end of the day? Either of those would mean the whole day was broken. In the middle of the day means one day of trading, one day broken in the worst case and then fixing overnight.
- ufmace 7y agoI wonder if we'll ever get a decent post-mortem on how this happened.
- zarriak 7y agoThis just makes me think that if Walmart ever made it so the grocery pickup didn't use an immense amount of plastic bags so many people would use it. I tried using it once and they were selling reusable bags so I assumed they required you to use their reusable bags. This was unfortunately not the case instead they put everything including the bags in their own plastic bag I just felt awful and never used it again. I know some people who still use it because it is great to be able to look around your kitchen and know exactly what you need but it seems like there are so many people like me that would use it but don't do so because of the massive waste.
- mensetmanusman 7y agoDoes Target still not allow Apple Pay?
- anderiv 7y agoThey do support it now, as of a few months ago.
- brianwawok 7y agoCan I use my target card with it? That sweet 5% off
- dmourati 7y agoI bet Kubernetes was somehow responsible for this outage.
- robbyt 7y agoA friend works at Target corporate, and yes from what I've heard kubernetes is probably involved.
- sleepybrett 7y agoTweet stating that this was 5 years to the day from their last register outage. Sounds more like some certs expired.