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Australian Dept. Store Chain's Website Crashes and Can't Get Back Up

Posted by timothy on from the work-calmly-and-rationally-instead dept.

McGruber writes "Myer, Australia's largest department store chain, has closed its website 'until further notice' at the height of the post-Christmas (and Australian summer) sales season. The website crashed on Christmas Day and has been down ever since. This means Myer will see no benefit for those days from booming domestic online sales, which were tipped to hit $344 million across the retail sector on Boxing Day alone. Teams from IBM and Myer's information technology division were 'working furiously' to fix the problem."

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  1. I've Fallen! by toygeek · · Score: 2, Funny

    And I can't get up!

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  2. Teams from IBM by frovingslosh · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... I think I see the problem.

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    1. Re:Teams from IBM by Evil+Pete · · Score: 4, Funny

      Probably fresh from their success with the Queensland Health system.

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  3. Re:Cost center only? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    What the bloody hell is thanksgiving mate?

  4. Down, down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    websites are down :P