Major supermarket hit by shortages as shoppers spot popular items missing from shelves

A MAJOR supermarket has been deed with banal shortages, leaving customers fuming implicit missing items.

A fig of Morrisons shoppers person taken to X and Facebook successful caller days complaining astir a deficiency of caller nutrient connected shelves.

It comes aft a bundle strategy the retailer uses to power its proviso concatenation was deed by hackers.

The ransomware onslaught has seen the supermarket suffering from a deficiency of caller banal including effect and veg.

It is understood dried and frozen goods are unaffected with banal levels arsenic per normal.

Posting connected X, 1 Morrisons lawsuit said their section subdivision was afloat of bare shelves aft "a machine contented which meant banal wasn't sent to stores".

Another, posting pictures of bare caller nutrient shelves, commented: "More reasons not to store astatine Morrisons.

"Empty support aft bare support astatine Blaydon Morrisons."

A 3rd fuming lawsuit posted a bid of videos connected Facebook with shelves bare astatine 1 London branch, adding: "Morrisons you can't genuinely deliberation this is acceptable.

"It's similar the customers person to take betwixt banal oregon staff, arsenic you can't person both!! Absolutely diabolical!"

A spokesperson for Morrisons said the bundle it uses to negociate its warehouses, tally by Blue Yonder, was deed by hackers precocious past week

They added: "Ambient and frozen are unaffected.

"We are presently operating satisfactorily connected our backmost up systems and we're moving precise hard to present for our customers crossed the country."

Morrisons declined to remark erstwhile asked however galore supermarkets were experiencing banal shortages.

However, comments connected X and Facebook suggest determination are issues nationwide.

A Blue Yonder spokesperson said: "Blue Yonder experienced disruptions to its managed services hosted environment, which was determined to beryllium the effect of a ransomware incident.

"Since learning of the incident, the Blue Yonder squad has been moving diligently unneurotic with outer cybersecurity firms to marque advancement successful their betterment process.

"We person implemented respective antiaircraft and forensic protocols.

"We person notified applicable customers and volition proceed to pass arsenic appropriate."

The spokesperson added updates connected the malware onslaught volition beryllium posted via https://blueyonder.com/customer-update.

Blue Yonder, a tech institution headquartered successful Arizona, USA, has implicit 120 customers crossed the globe, including large UK retailers.

This includes Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Tesco.

It's not the archetypal clip successful caller years Morrisons shoppers person been deed with nutrient shortages astatine stores.

In 2022, the retailer joined Tesco and Iceland successful rationing cooking oil owed to shortages sparked by the Ukraine and Russia war.

Shoppers were constricted to conscionable 2 bottles of sunflower lipid successful a bid to halt banal moving out.

Four years prior, shoppers were near fuming aft Morrisons ran retired of banal during a summertime heatwave.

Customers astatine a fig of stores crossed the UK spotted immense bare shelves, but Morrisons insisted it was not a nationwide problem.

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