Wow, what a mess.

Target customers across the country reported long lines and lengthy waits as the embattled Minneapolis retailer suffered some sort of technical meltdown.

I slapped together the Storify narrative below to give you a taste for the unpleasantness.

Target issued the following statement, emphasizing that what happened tonight was not related to a recent, catastrophic security breach that made Target big news:

Earlier this evening, Target experienced a glitch that impacted the speed of checkout at some of our U.S. stores. Since that time, we’ve been able to restore our check-out process. Once again, we sincerely apologize to anyone inconvenienced by this issue.

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