Engineers Wal-Mart Stores Inc, involved in regular monitoring of changes in the online prices of competitors, faced with an unexpected problem
The technology, which they used to check the site Amazon.com few million times a day, suddenly stopped working.
Like most big retailers, Wal-Mart uses computer programs that scan the prices on the websites of competitors to appropriately adjust their data.
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However, the new Amazon algorithm that has been blocking such programs (bots), have prevented the retailer from Arkansas, United States to update the price data. For two weeks, he had to retrieve price information from a secondary source.
