A customer, seen through a store window, sits at a laptop computer at a Wal-Mart.com store at the Topanga Plaza in Canoga Park, California, Nov. 8, 2011.
Some lucky Wal-Mart shoppers got a bigger bargain than they expected on Wednesday, when they were able to buy items on the store’s website for a fraction of their actual prices.
A technical glitch on Walmart.com priced treadmills that normally go for hundreds of dollars at about $33, and LCD computer monitors for as little as $9, reports Reuters.
The company wouldn’t say how many orders were placed with the low prices or whether Wal-Mart would honor those orders. A spokesman said that most of the products affected by the glitch were electronics, and that the website was being repaired.
[Reuters]