Customers were asked to continue browsing while staff got the system back up and running. The glitch took about an hour and a half to get worked out in Lindsay. “It has since been corrected and the stores are operating normally.” “A point of sale downloading error caused item names to appear incorrectly,” she said.

She said the anomaly didn’t affect stores outside of Lindsay or Whitby. A staff member from Lindsay Canadian Tire who wished to remain anonymous said any item the team scanned showed the same product number and information as the popular toy.Ĭathy Kurzbock, manager of external communications for the Canadian Tire Corporation, clarified the glitch only made the names of products appear the same, not the prices or the item numbers.

Potato Head toy to a downloading error.įive stores in Lindsay and Whitby were impacted in the bizarre computer system fritz that started around 7 a.m. Canadian Tire is attributing the glitch that caused all items at Lindsay’s Canadian Tire to scan as a Mr.

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