Some Retail Sites Struggled With Uptime Right Through New Year’s
Written by Fred J. AunJanuary 8th, 2009
Retailer Web site problems didn't end with the passing of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Some of the biggest names in retail, including Wal-Mart, Target, Lowe's, Gap and Blockbuster, found themselves with cranky Web sites in the days leading up to, and beyond, Christmas.
Most of the site problems were minor in scope, but a few were long and probably costly. When it came to duration, none appeared to match the outage that hit the Publix Super Markets site on January 2.
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