Archived Won’t download Cartwheel

[Dog]

I don't feel like giving my employer free run of my life via the app.

I do because under where it says “grab your favorites” in the app it gives me funny suggestions

 

[Amanda Cantwell]

When you download an app, your giving away alot of your privacy. I prefer to not do that.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but targets tracking what you buy with cartwheel with or without the app especially if you’re using the app anyways to add offers. It’s the same barcode.

 

[Times Up]

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but targets tracking what you buy with cartwheel with or without the app especially if you’re using the app anyways to add offers. It’s the same barcode.

I understand that. However, by accepting the app and it's terms, you're giving them access to everything else you have on and do with your phone. I'll pass on that. I value my privacy.

It may be a generational thing, but unfortunately, people under 30 (or thereabouts) don't realize how much of their privacy they've given away.

 

[TargetScanMan]

I understand that. However, by accepting the app and it's terms, you're giving them access to everything else you have on and do with your phone. I'll pass on that. I value my privacy.

It may be a generational thing, but unfortunately, people under 30 (or thereabouts) don't realize how much of their privacy they've given away.

So then you are eternally in shopping mode adding items to Cartwheel/Target App as a Guest and somehow your barcode remains intact and your purchases are with cash and sans TM discount? 🤔

EDIT: and you have a VPN active on your cellular device, printer, and all other devices utilized in tendering savings?

 

[gsa4lyfe]

When you download an app, your giving away alot of your privacy. I prefer to not do that.

Ahhhhh you're one of those people. It's 2018 you're privacy is gone so I would accept that and make your life a little easier and download a few apps.

 

[StargazerOmega]

Make it right for the guest and honor it. Inform them that next time though, they should use Cartwheel because it'd be a lot easier and there are more deals in there. Plus you also get exclusive deals based on the types of products that you buy. It's literally free real estate money with minimal effort.

This is what my store does, but I personally always tell them "Let me check with my manager..." to be sure the BS card isn't being played.

 

[Greenie]

You can also add offers online and print out the barcode

Most of the technology challenged I know don’t have a computer either.

But we have a couple that comes in with their printout of offers and barcode and they diligently check every single item on their receipt to make sure it all applied.

 

[Times Up]

So then you are eternally in shopping mode adding items to Cartwheel/Target App as a Guest and somehow your barcode remains intact and your purchases ar

Nope, just scan your TM discount card.

 

[Amanda Cantwell]

I understand that. However, by accepting the app and it's terms, you're giving them access to everything else you have on and do with your phone. I'll pass on that. I value my privacy.

It may be a generational thing, but unfortunately, people under 30 (or thereabouts) don't realize how much of their privacy they've given away.

Didn’t you say you use the app to add offers anyways? If so the barcodes are literally the same.

 

[Times Up]

Didn’t you say you use the app to add offers anyways? If so the barcodes are literally the same.

Yes, I understand that...

However, I'm not giving carte blanche access to everything in my phone.

 

[Amanda Cantwell]

Yes, I understand that...

However, I'm not giving carte blanche access to everything in my phone.

I mean you do you but if you already have the app scanning the code on there doesn’t change anything and you’re not giving “carte Blanche” access. Target has access to my location when I use the app, a permission I could revoke at any time. Then it would have no permissions.

 

[ConfusedCashier]

I understand protecting your phone from spot and all that, but spot has all of our SSNs, home addresses, most of our checking account information, phone numbers, birthdays, and drivers license numbers... if they want access to a phone full of cat memes then have at it

 

[starmaster1000]

I do because under where it says “grab your favorites” in the app it gives me funny suggestions

My favorite is when I decide to use my phone to help a guest when I'm not near a Zebra, and a few days later I get a "you looked at it and now it's on sale!" email for crap I'd never actually buy.

 

[RedcardReba]

I just have guests start download process, advising them they'll need to set up acct., adjust manually, and assure them once they have it installed, we will show them how it works.

 

[PackAndCry]

My favorite is when I decide to use my phone to help a guest when I'm not near a Zebra, and a few days later I get a "you looked at it and now it's on sale!" email for crap I'd never actually buy.

I think Target thinks I'm a woman with children. I'm most definitely neither of the two.

 

[starmaster1000]

I think Target thinks I'm a woman with children. I'm most definitely neither of the two.

I was helping some dude find stuff for his costume party and now this man-child crap came in.

 

[SitSpotSit]

Spot could have TM's on The floor wear badges, "Use cartwheel, ask me how?"

Or, especially during the holidays, designate a tm, like the ones during remodel, whose job is to walk around the store talking up the Target/Cartwheel app. It would save a lot of cashiers from that awkward conversation...🙄

 

[Anelmi]

Pretty sure we have T-Shirts for that already.

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

When you download an app, your giving away alot of your privacy. I prefer to not do that.

Here is what the app says under privacy.
If you choose not to provide information, we may not be able to provide you with requested products, services or information.

 

[Dog]

It would be nice if we had a little sheet or booklet or something to hand out to guests explaining how to use cartwheel

 

[Tessa120]

Best practice would be (if there's no line): walk the guest through downloading the target app, show them how to add an offer, what that means, etc, and apply it like normal. If there is a line, do as RCJJ says and just honor it and let them know next time they need it.

That just sounds like a nightmare. On the sales floor it probably takes me 3-4 minutes to show them the app and how to use it, and that's with a reasonable amount of questions. Extra questions, I'll be pushing past 5 minutes. And that's with me sending them on their way without having them scan their entire cart. That's just not a reasonable amount of time at a register when someone else wanting to buy their stuff and leave could show up in line at any second, if they aren't there already.

I mean yeah, I did hear a cashier try to teach someone how to use cartwheel and it was basically "do this, and this item will be discounted, you're set". She had escorted the guest to the sales floor to get something and she kept talking over me 3-4 times telling the guest that he was set up as I was mid-sentence trying to show him more things, like the numbers of offers and the coupons and the difference between browsing and barcode scan. So I could see telling someone "do this, you're set" in line and it be quick, but the guest won't know what to do next trip. You have to take your time and show everything, and that's not really feasible during checkout.

Didn’t you say you use the app to add offers anyways? If so the barcodes are literally the same.

The barcode is the same. But as of a couple of months ago if your TM number is added to wallet, the wallet barcode applies the number automatically and the physical printout doesn't.

 

[Amanda Cantwell]

That just sounds like a nightmare.

That’s GS 🙂

 

[mizl]

It would be nice if we had a little sheet or booklet or something to hand out to guests explaining how to use cartwheel

There are tear-off stacks of little like 2x3 cards that explain Cartwheel briefly, I think from when they integrated it into the Target app. They're pretty simple but they do explain that you have to add the offers to redeem them, which is a step so many guests seem to misunderstand.

 

[Dog]

There are tear-off stacks of little like 2x3 cards that explain Cartwheel briefly, I think from when they integrated it into the Target app. They're pretty simple but they do explain that you have to add the offers to redeem them, which is a step so many guests seem to misunderstand.

We had them briefly at my store but don’t have any more 🙁 do you know if this is something that can be ordered?

 

[Falkor]

That’s GS 🙂

Our guest service does not even the basics. I truly doubt they would know how to teach the app.