Lowes' website crashes on Black Friday

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• Lowes' website crashed on Black Friday.
• The site was quickly back online.
• Black Friday website crashes plague retailers dealing with heavy traffic from shoppers hunting for deals.

Home improvement chain Lowes' website crashed on Black Friday.

The retailer's website was offline for a period around 11:30 a.m. on Friday morning.

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The screen read: "The site is currently offline and will be available within the next hour."

Lowes

By 11:50, the website was back up and running.

Lowes is currently selling a number of Black Friday deals on its website. The retailer kicked off in-store Black Friday deals on Friday at 6 a.m.

Black Friday traffic taking down websites is a common problem for retailers as the holiday shopping season kicks off.

British video game store GAME also crashed soon after it debuted its Black Friday deals. South African online retailer Takealot experienced similar Black Friday website problems.

Last year, Macy's website crashed under heavy traffic. In 2015, Target had issues with its ecommerce site.