Target Stores and its Website Experience Outage Again

It was on Tuesday that many Target shoppers were met with frustrations when they went to go check out, both online and at stores.

Target’s stores as well as its website was hit with a brief outage that prevented customers from purchasing items.

At some Target stores, there were payment processing issues while on the Target.com homepage, a message greeted customers: “We’re sorry! This page is currently unavailable. Please try again later.” Target’s mobile application also did not load.

“As the result of a payment processing issue, some Target guests were temporarily unable to make purchases at Target stores and at Target.com,” a company spokesman told CNBC in an email.

“Within an hour, our technology teams identified and began to remedy the issue to limit the impact on our guests. This was not a security-related issue. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate our guests’ patience.”

It was in June that Target store registers were down for almost two hours on a Saturday. Target had said then that it was a result of “an internal technology issue.” The issues continued into Sunday as well when customers reported not being able to use the card readers.

Shares of Target are up 62.6% since the beginning of the year.

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