June 18, 2019 8:45AM ET

A $50 Million Glitch? Target Takes a Hit From Register Outage

target register outage father's day weekend — Customers wait on a long check out line at a Target store in San Francisco. Target suffered a technological glitch that stalled checkout lines at its stores worldwide Saturday, exasperating shoppers and eating into sales at a prime time for retailers. The outage periodically prevented Target's cashiers from scanning merchandise or processing transactions. Self-checkout registers also weren't working at times, causing massive lines in some stores,

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The impact of Target Corp.’s weekend register glitch won’t show up until the retailer discloses quarterly revenue in August, but it could have cost the company about $50 million in lost sales, according to one analyst. Target’s registers went down for about two hours on Saturday across the chain, stemming from what the company called an “internal…

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