Archived Gift Cards!?!

[Yetive]

We have a magnetic dry erase board in the hallway by photo lab (offstage). Info like RedWires, and Workbench updates, sales, Reds, etc get posted there for cashiers who don't go to huddles.

 

[SmilesWI]

ugh I’m not enjoying scratching off gift cards as a cashier....

I shopped after work and it’s a pain as a guest as well.
I had gcs on my phone and had to wait for an email with an access code (only for one of 2 gcs)

 

[Militantagnostic]

Thank goodness that I came on here Friday and found out about the new procedure or I would have been lost, no one explained this change at my store.

When I scanned up a GC, while I was up for fast service, for a quick sec I was like "WTF is this shit, oh yeah I saw it on TBR", TBR: Always Keeps You Informed!

 

[REDcardJJ]

GiftCard fraud was getting out of hand, and unfortunately I don't think that there's an easier way to verify that the GiftCards actually belong to the guest.

 

[SmilesWI]

I had an electronic gc (may have been from Swagbucks) and I had to have an access code emailed to me. I try to be ready st checkout with all my discounts and payments but that held me up a bit

 

[dondon4720]

It's a pain in the neck on self checkout, because of the size of the number pad is squished in store mode my big fingers have a hard time hitting the right number 🙁

 

[SmilesWI]

Holy cow thank you to whoever mentioned in another thread that you can peel off the sticker. I just tried it on a gc I had in my wallet. The sticker goes from solid to spotted where it’s red. Likely as a sec feature

Once the access code is visable then there’s nothing to keep the gc secure at all

 

[REDcardJJ]

Once the access code is visable then there’s nothing to keep the gc secure at all

If the access code is visible, the GiftCard should be in your wallet or on your Target.com account. The security concern is that someone could take a picture of the barcode and the access information and use a GiftCard that they didn't pay for. The sticker protects the access information, and requiring the access information protects the card itself... unless you lose possession of the card.

 

[BadWolf4531]

Yeah yesterday was fun. I got to ring up a $1300 transaction...all paid with $5, $10, $15, and $20 gift cards.

It was a group of teachers shopping for new clothes and toys for some of their less fortunate students. And the gift cards were all donated by other families to the school. Took over an hour to do the whole transaction... scratching and keying the gift cards alone took at least 20 min.

 

[pinktea]

OMG...that's awful...what a pain.

 

[IWishIKnew]

Wow, that's crazy! But there's a silver lining there--it was an hour very well spent.

 

[Greenie]

Yeah yesterday was fun. I got to ring up a $1300 transaction...all paid with $5, $10, $15, and $20 gift cards.

It was a group of teachers shopping for new clothes and toys for some of their less fortunate students. And the gift cards were all donated by other families to the school. Took over an hour to do the whole transaction... scratching and keying the gift cards alone took at least 20 min.

Haven't tried it myself yet, but can you combine gift cards without typing in the access code?

 

[HRZone]

Yeah yesterday was fun. I got to ring up a $1300 transaction...all paid with $5, $10, $15, and $20 gift cards.

It was a group of teachers shopping for new clothes and toys for some of their less fortunate students. And the gift cards were all donated by other families to the school. Took over an hour to do the whole transaction... scratching and keying the gift cards alone took at least 20 min.

Why is a tps ringing up a transaction?

 

[GoodyNN]

Haven't tried it myself yet, but can you combine gift cards without typing in the access code?

I tried yesterday, but was told that function was not available at the time. Now, it was a group of five cards that the first had received moments earlier by stocking up on a variety of cleaning supplies and paper goods, so maybe there's just a normal delay and I tried it too quickly.

 

[TTB]

So theres people taking pics of the back of the gift cards....waiting for OTHER people to buy said gift cards....and then they spend them online. WTF so these losers...just spend their day calling to check balances of gift cards? And WTF isnt there surveillance video of people hanging out in the gift card section taking pictures of each one? They probably saw footage and decided to go with the access code thing.

 

[BadWolf4531]

Why is a tps ringing up a transaction?

Haha, apparently I haven’t updated my profile recently. I left AP back in June at a time when there were virtually no hours for TPS in our store. At that time there was also a GSTL and GSA both on leave, and another GSA who put in her 2 weeks. So, they threw me back up front to cover and I’ve been there since.

 

[commiecorvus]

A merging we will go, a merging we will go, ...

 

[Yetive]

Heigh ho the Derry-o

 

[On6]

Haha, apparently I haven’t updated my profile recently. I left AP back in June at a time when there were virtually no hours for TPS in our store. At that time there was also a GSTL and GSA both on leave, and another GSA who put in her 2 weeks. So, they threw me back up front to cover and I’ve been there since.

They allowed you to go from AP to non-AP in the same store? Normally that's a no-no unless you take a TL or higher role. Even then it's discouraged.

 

[Yetive]

When we were losing TPS hours, one of ours went to Electronics.

 

[HRZone]

They allowed you to go from AP to non-AP in the same store? Normally that's a no-no unless you take a TL or higher role. Even then it's discouraged.

There's a lot of things a tps can do that an aps couldn't. At my old store one had a roommate in electronics.

We had a tps on here who said he had a girlfriend in the store.

I think because TPS aren't always completely in the loop when it comes to internals some stores are a little more lax on what they let them do.

 

[On6]

There's a lot of things a tps can do that an aps couldn't. At my old store one had a roommate in electronics.

We had a tps on here who said he had a girlfriend in the store.

I think because TPS aren't always completely in the loop when it comes to internals some stores are a little more lax on what they let them do.

Maybe it's a district thing. When I was a TPS, unless the APBP and HRBP both gave the okay, we couldn't take non AP roles in the same store. They made exceptions for TL promotions if they really wanted you in the role. But more often than not I saw AP get turned down for work center changes within the same store.

 

[GoodyNN]

They allowed you to go from AP to non-AP in the same store? Normally that's a no-no unless you take a TL or higher role. Even then it's discouraged.

I've seen three TPS people move to hardlines or SFS in the last year. One decided to go back to school and were told that they could change availability as a TPS. Don't know about the other two.

 

[IWishIKnew]

What is TPS?

 

[GoodyNN]

Theft Prevention Specialist, or Target Protection Specialist. Not sure which LOL