Wal-Mart Online Price Error Leads to $100 Can of Lysol

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s website was selling kayaks for about $11 and computer monitors for about $9 earlier today owing to a technical error that led the world’s largest retailer to shut down its online store for maintenance.

The pricing abnormalities were caused internally, said Ravi Jariwala, a Wal-Mart spokesman.