I am astounded by how bad the J.Crew website is. The .jsp filenames indicate that the site is Java. It is tragically slow and the senseless implementation of AJAX makes it near impossible to use. It’s almost 2009! How can there be so many horrible shopping cart systems on the ‘net? And for such a large company … it’s embarrassing.


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  1. Couldn’t agree more. Also would like to point out that most clothing images won’t load in Chrome.

  2. I like it. I think “working” websites are overrated. I like it when a site keeps me guessing with dead links, blank pages and AJAX used without a purpose. Nothing says holidays more than a poorly placed animated loading circles.

  3. Oh my God. I have been trying to buy something from J Crew for the past 20 minutes. Their site is beyond retarded.

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