# In-Store Monitoring

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### How It Works

This monitor checks **local stock** based on ZIP codes across the country, automatically detecting availability near any populated region. It runs **continuously**, alerting when a product becomes available locally.

#### Supported Retailers:

* 🛒 **Target**
* 🛍️ **BestBuy**
* **DollarGeneral**
* **Additional retailers will be added in the future, as we are currently testing this new feature.**

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### Setting It Up

To begin receiving alerts, you must first assign a **monitoring channel**:

```
$monitor addchannel targetlocal #channel
$monitor addchannel bestbuylocal #channel
```

> Replace `#channel` with the channel you want alerts to be sent to.

Then, to start monitoring a product’s local stock nationwide, use:

```
$monitor local link
```

This will enable tracking for any **local-only drops**, such as store pickups or same-day inventory shifts.

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### Example Usage

#### Assigning Alert Channels

```
$monitor addchannel bestbuylocal #bestbuy-alerts
$monitor addchannel targetlocal #target-restocks
```

#### Monitoring a Product

```
$monitor local https://www.bestbuy.com/site/xyz
```

Once added, the system will begin scanning ZIP codes for store availability of the linked product.

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### Notes

* We Highly recommend that you'll enable [Personal User Pinger](/personal-user-pinger/personallized-user-pinger-overview.md) so members will be able to whitelist their state/preferred stores, and get pinged specifically on that.
* Local monitors are ideal for **store pickup** alerts or **region-exclusive inventory**.

For ZIP-specific manual checks, members can still use store-specific commands like:

```
$target {zip}
$bestbuy {zip}
```

Example:

```
$target 90210
$bestbuy 10001
```

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Let your members know early—**local stock sells fast**. Be prepared!


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