Walgreens, Lowe’s Battle E-Commerce Trouble On Pearl Harbor Day
Written by Fred J. AunDecember 8th, 2009
High traffic on Monday (Dec. 7) was blamed for a day of uptime problems at Walgreens.com. A similar long outage plagued Lowes.com the same day, with the company's only explanation being a posted note that referred to "maintenance."
Problems at the Walgreens site began at 1:09 P.M. (New York time), according to site monitoring company AlertBot. The site remained either offline or slow to respond until about 2:16 P.M. But even after it came back to life, the site suffered sporadic similar issues throughout the afternoon.
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