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

Posted by timothy on Friday December 27, 2013 @05:50PM 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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I'll add to that with an example by dbIII · 2013-12-27 23:20 · Score: 5, Interesting

How high you ask? Example - Scarpa hiking boots - $125US online from Italy (where they are made) or the USA. "On special" in Australia for $450US, normal price most likely higher. That's why we shop online.