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“Walmart will probably have to eat the loss, being the difference between what they allowed people to buy, versus what they had on their cards.”

How were they supposed to know what was on their cards? They showed no limits. For all i know if they had imposed an arbitrary limit the feds would have gone after them.

[erlayman]

When asked about the perishable food left behind in carts, Whaling would only say that “we monitored transactions during the outage.”

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Whatever the feds do as far as turning off the system in the future I think it is safe to say Walmart is going to develop a policy that covers itself.

[RetSignman]

“Walmart will probably have to eat the loss...
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They have done it before to keep prices low for customers, few people know that and it was in the billion dollar range.

[newzjunkey]

there is a procedure. there are store-specific paper vouchers issued by jp morgan to fill out, there's a phone number to call for merchants to check the card balance at time of transaction. i think someone told me that had been down... but there's also commonly a $50 limit if balance is unknown and the system is down.

it's inefficient and just a royal a pain but i've dealt with this before on the retail side. there was no reason for walmart to just accept this blindly for over an hour other than crowd control and fear of unrest.