Wal-Mart’s Web Site Suffers Lengthy Outage

Bentonville, Ark, Wal-Mart Stores suffered an unknown technical glitch that knocked its Web site out of commission for as many as 11 hours, according to one Internet tracking service. The walmart.com Web site came back up Thursday morning. The company said that a minor incident during routine maintenance kept the site down longer than expected. Wal-Mart gets more hits than any other retail Web site except for Amazon.com