Crime & Safety
Waitrose supermarkets across UK shut due to ‘critical error’
Supermarket bosses have not opened branches across the country due to a national issue with ‘electronic systems’, understood to be the tills.
Branches affected in Oxfordshire, which were due to open at 7am, include in Abingdon, Wallingford, Oxford and Wheatley.
“Every branch is affected”, a source at the supermarket said. “They have started to do some work to fix it, but we can’t guarantee when the shop will open.
“There has been a critical error with the systems that is being fixed as we speak.”
Waitrose has been approached for further comment.