Thu Apr 17 21:50:00 UTC 2025: **Walmart Website Experiences Widespread Outage**
**NEW YORK, April 17, 2025** – Walmart’s online store experienced a significant outage on Tuesday, impacting users across the United States. The disruption, which began in the afternoon, prevented many customers from searching for products and completing purchases.
While the Walmart homepage and category pages initially remained accessible, search functionality failed, displaying error messages such as “Sorry…” accompanied by random images. DownDetector, a website that tracks outages, reported a peak of over 3,600 user-reported issues. Similar problems affected the Walmart mobile apps for Android and iOS.
Users took to social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter) and Threads to express their frustration and report issues with both the website and apps. Complaints ranged from inability to search for items to problems loading product pages and completing checkouts.
The outage appeared intermittent, with periods of restored functionality followed by further disruptions. While Walmart has yet to officially comment on the cause or duration of the outage, reports from DownDetector indicate that the problem is gradually resolving itself. By late afternoon, the number of reported outages had decreased significantly, suggesting a return to normal service. TechRadar contacted Walmart for comment, but has yet to receive a response. The company’s online services appear to be largely operational as of press time.
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