Yeah Target is notorious for its surveillance technology.
Before the rightwing boycotted Target for it's lgbtq+ merch and before the liberals boycotted Target for its rollback of DEI initiatives, many of us had been boyoctting Target for decades because its advancement of surveillance technology and cooperation with companies like Palantir
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/san-francisco-gets-inv...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-25/how-targe...
Re:Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero
by happyopossum on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @02:10PM
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> Yeah Target is notorious for its surveillance technology.
Can confirm - my wife called in a complaint about some graffiti / vandalism or something that was obscene in a target, and when she got a call back from a rep they were able to pinpoint everywhere she went in the store to determine which sign she was talking about...
Re:Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero
by doctorpangloss on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @02:06PM
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they have the best marketed loss prevention: by getting nerds to talk about, people are like, ooo i shouldn't shoplift at target
of course, without any real data, how would anyone know?
Their Loss Prevention is so advanced that FBI has collaborated with them for case help
https://thehorizonsun.com/features/2024/04/11/the-target-for...
I also worked there briefly in my teens, they are a great employer.