Walmart experienced an outage that left thousands of its online customers unable to check out and view items on Thursday afternoon.
According to Downdetector, the peak of the outage was around 3:30 p.m. ET, with more than 3,600 people reporting problems using Walmart’s online storefront.
“Had my cart almost ready to check out when problems started. Then it kept logging me out, endless reloading, error messages, wouldn’t let me search,” one person on Downdetector said.
But according to Downdetector, the problems seemed to have been resolved around 6:45 p.m. ET, with less than 150 people reporting problems.
Walmart declined to comment.
Other outages this week
The Walmart outage comes one day after major outages on Zoom and Spotify. On Wednesday afternoon, thousands of Zoom users experienced problems accessing the popular online meeting platform.
“Zoom has confirmed that this outage is impacting all Zoom customers. They are working to investigate and remediate the root cause and will update us on their progress,” Harvard University’s IT account said on X on Wednesday.
Earlier in the day, more than 48,000 users experienced problems using Spotify. The company said that “reports of this being a security hack are completely inaccurate.”
“Spotify experienced an outage today beginning around 6:20 am EDT. As of 11:45 am EDT, Spotify is back up and functioning normally. You can check @SpotifyStatus X channel for any additional updates,” a Spotify spokesperson told USA TODAY in a statement.
Contributing: Jay Cannon, Mike Snider and Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY
Fernando Cervantes Jr. is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach him at fernando.cervantes@gannett.com and follow him on X @fern_cerv_.
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