Walmart glitch left man online customers satisfied today after the company listed several items worth hundreds of dollars for only $8.85.
A "technical error" on the retail giant's website caused several products to be priced absurdly low, causing an online shopping frenzy.
The country's largest retailer was selling a 24-inch high-definition Viewsonic computer monitor, an InFocus IN2124 Projector digital projectors and other products, many for $8.85. The projector is listed for $578.89 on Walmart.com and $579.99 on Newegg.com.
As customers shared the deals on social media sites like Instagram, wondering if the site was hacked, products sold out in just hours.
The Walmart glitch caused the site to go offline and the retailer was only able to get the site working again about 11am, but admitted there would intermittent availability problems throughout the day.
"We experienced a technical error that caused some items to show incorrect pricing," Ravi Jariwala, a spokesman for Walmart's online operations, said according to the Daily Mail.
"We apologize for any inconvenience to our customers. I want to make very clear this is not a hack. This is an internal technical error."
As customers inundated social media sites such as Twitter with news of the sales, products sold out online in just hours.
This Walmart glitch comes on the heels of last month's EBT Food Stamp card glitch. The cards had no limits for a couple of hours and people shopping for food with the EBT cards at those two Walmart stores filled up as many as 10 carriages during the free food frenzy.
