That time pretending "capitalism never obstructs commerce" backfired visibly:


Target’s stock drops after weekend register meltdown
“With a chain-wide outage for a full-day ... the revenue impact would be [a loss of] approximately $200 million,” he said. “Even if some of those sales migrated online to a functional web store ... the sales hit was still easily nine-figures. And that estimate does not include any future loss in sales from customers abandoning the store completely and spending their money elsewhere.”

... On Saturday afternoon, for roughly two hours, Target cash registers across the country stopped working, preventing customers from making purchases in stores....

Then, on Sunday, Target’s payment processor NCR had technical issues at one of its data centers. As a result, Target again couldn’t process credit-card payments at some stores for about 90 minutes....
Beavis: "Somebody must have hit the socialism button by mistake."
Butthead:"Dude, there is no socialism button."
Beavis: "Shhh! Don't tell them that."

Note the ambiguity of the acronym in "POS terminal."