Whole Foods warns of shortages after cyberattack at its primary distributor UNFI

The whole meal told his staff that Preventing the ongoing confusion and its primary distributor, United Natural Foods (UPI), “may take several days in solution”.

Amazon -owned retailer told an internal communication staff seen by Techchen, that UPI was suffering a “nationwide technology system”, described as part of its part as part of Anfi CynicismThe

The whole meal was in contact with the staff that CyberTac was affecting the “selection of products from their warehouse and shipping from their warehouse” and it “will affect our normal delivery schedule and product availability.”

Missive to Staff included instructions to restrict contact with customers. According to the communication, the full meal employees have the “only single -authorized customer talking point” the “temporary supply of temporary supply” that is the only single -authorized customer to share with customers.

When the whole meal spokesperson Nathan Simbala reached the TechCrunch: “We are working to restart our shelves as soon as possible and apologize for any inconvenience for customers.”

The whole meal did not say how it reached the demand that the situation could be resolved within a few days.

As part of this, the UPI says on Wednesday that it is progressing to recover its systems.

“We continue to recover our systems safely and our customers and suppliers continue to work uninterrupted to provide the services from us,” UNFI spokesman Grace Turiano told TechCrunch. “As today, we are slowly coming back online with our ordering and increasing our power in the coming days.”

UNFI is one of the largest food distributors in North America, providing more than 30,000 stores and grocery products and fresh products across the United States and Canada. Organization CyberTack released on Monday In a filing and Anfi chief executive Sandy Douglas to the federal regulators, Sandy Douglas told investors this week that the company took off its entire network offline on Friday.

This week, on May 3, this week, the net sales of 2025 have reported $ 8.1 billion dollars.

Since ours Reporting on TuesdayTechCrunch has received several reports of empty shelves in other grocery stores dependent on some whole food stores and other grocery stores. An entire food store visited by this reporter on Tuesday showed notice in several isles that the store is suffering from an unprecedented “temporary” stock issue for some products.

Most down stream real-world effects on grocery stores and on their customers are not seen until the end of this week.

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This story was first published in June 10 and updated with a spokesperson with new information about UNFI recovery.