Target Store, Sports Arena Blvd., San Diego, CA - credit / debit card scanners take multiple trys in order to read cards

Complaints.com received the following consumer message on December 25, 2002:

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RE: Target Store, Sports Arena Blvd., San Diego, CA - credit / debit card scanners take multiple trys in order to read cards

This a simple complaint, The target store on Sports Arena Blvd in San Diego where i shop has the worst card scanners of any store i have ever been to.

Try too use a debit card there and it takes 4 to 5 trys before it recognizes your card, if it ever does, The clerks know about this problem but nothing is being done about it as far as i can tell. I no longer shop there because of it.

I dont like writing checks, tha is why i got a debit card, just wondering if this is a local problem or if other Target store are the same way' A frustrated ex customer

Comment On This

I am in the credit card industry.

If you take a plastic bag (the kind they give you at grocery stores and Target) and put your credit card in the plastic bag; then run the card and bag through the scanner it cleans the scanner so cards do not have to be scanned twice for customers.

And remember some cards magnetic stripe needs to be replaced. To do this you need to get a new card.

Hope this helps.