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Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) is in a battle with what it calls “Grinch Bots” who are out to snag this year’s hottest items including the latest PlayStation 5 and Xbox consoles.
What Happened: The retailer s Chief Information Security Officer Jerry Geisler on Tuesday listed the steps the company has taken to ensure the bots do not get to the items such as
Sony Corporation (NYSE: SNE) and
Microsoft Corporation’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) latest consoles before they are purchased by real shoppers on its websites.
As per Geisler, Walmart implemented a bot preventative action hours before the PlayStation 5 event on Nov. 25, which blocked 20 million bot attempts within the first half-hour of the event’s commencement.
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As scalpers continue to buy up and resell the PlayStation 5 at inflated prices, you may be wondering if anything can be done to stop automated bots from hoarding all the stock.
According to Walmart, the retailer has had success in stopping bots from snatching new PS5 units before real consumers can buy them, pointing to a recent incident during a pre-Thanksgiving sale for the in-demand console.
“One bot preventative action we implemented just hours before the PlayStation 5 event on Nov. 25 blocked more than 20 million bot attempts within the first 30 minutes alone,” Jerry Geisler, Walmart’s chief information security officer, wrote in a blog post.