Walmart shoppers across the US are dealing with a tech glitch thats left customers unable to check out.
Reports of outages started flooding Reddit on Wednesday afternoon, with users from states including Texas, Arizona, Missouri, and New York flagging issues on the main Walmart app.
The company’s website and online stores for it’s Sam’s Club warehouse locations reportedly isn’t faring much better.
According to outage tracker DownDetector, reports spiked sharply around 2:25PM ET, going from a small trickle and ballooning to more than 3,600 alerts every five minutes.
‘It’s company wide,’ one Redditor, who reported to be a Walmart employee, said on the social media app.
‘They’ve got every IT person working on it right now.’
Online shopping, affected by the outage, accounts for an ever-increasing amount of Walmart’s sales.
In fact, $18 in every $100 spent at Walmart is doine online — a clear sign that more shoppers are relying on its website and app to make purchases.
Walmart shoppers reported outages on DownDetector and Reddit – as the company ramps up for Easter holidays
The company recently launched a series of Easter-related sales with bargain basement deals.
Select Easter meals are priced below $6 per person and children’s Easter baskets are priced below $20.
The holiday is this Sunday, April 20.
The company offered all of its Easter deals through one-click ordering, same-day pickup, and Express Delivery: all of its most-popular online services.
Walmart didn’t immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
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Despite the temporary tech glitch, Walmart is heading into the second third of 2025 with millions of dollars of wind in its sales.
The company, which recently hosted two investor days, reported that its expecting solid sales this year, even if the US economy goes sour.
Walmart shoppers said they experienced a series of app outages across the US
DownDetector, a website that tracks online store glitches, saw a massive spike in reports
Walmart shoppers have been gearing up for Easter Sunday with in-store and online deals
Walmart is the largest company in the US by revenue. It plans on using its scale to ensure customers can get lower prices.
The Arkansas-based company’s gigantic storefront gives the company massive negotiating leverage in global markets, Walmart’s CEO, Doug McMillon, told investors.
That power is particularly useful for American companies right now. Other retailers, like Best Buy and Target, have warned they will increase prices because of President Donald Trump’s trade policies.
McMillon said his company remains in a position to ‘play offense,’ and that tariffs may push it to ‘invest in price.’
Retail analysts speaking to DailyMail.com agreed that the massive brand was in a solid position to handle increased taxes.
‘Walmart is a very organized and disciplined retailer and is in a better position than most because of its scale,’ Retail expert Neil Saunders, from GlobalData, said.
‘So some other retailers may be suffering more.’
The positive beat is a turnaround for the company compared to its first quarter earnings call.
Walmart reported massive nine percent sales growth in 2024 in the last call. Executives said the company expects growth to slow between three and four percent this year.
