Security News > 2024 > March > UK bakery Greggs is latest victim of recent POS system outages
UK bakery chain Greggs is the latest victim of recent point of sale system outages that forced store closures at large retail chains over the past few weeks.
Greggs is a bakery chain with 2,300 branches across the UK, selling sausage rolls, baked goods, sandwiches, and sweets.
The issues appear to have now been resolved, with Greggs telling the BBC that all shops are now operating as normal.
"We've resolved a technical issue that affected tills in some of our shops earlier this morning. All affected shops are now trading as normal. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused to our customers," Greggs told the BBC. This outage comes only days after similar incidents severely disrupted the operations of McDonald's, Tesco, and Sainsbury.
Last week, McDonald's suffered a global IT outage that also impacted its point of sale systems, forcing the closure of some shops until the issues were resolved.
BleepingComputer contacted Greggs to learn more about the incident and whether a cyberattack caused the outage but did not receive a reply to our email.