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Whole Foods Confirms Outage; Shoppers Stymied

First Twitter goes down; now Whole Foods. How will hip young techies survive?

Not quite a complete shutdown, but Whole Foods shoppers have been texting and tweeting about register shutdowns at stores in several states. Some where half the registers were closed, others completely unable to ring up the items.

Whole Foods responded to our request for information with a statement: Corporate Vice President Brooke Buchanan says, “We’ve experienced an unforeseen log-in issue within our point of sale systems, and registers are resetting and coming back online.”

As we saw Friday with the DDoS on web sites, the problems at Whole Foods seem to be slowing. Perhaps more registers are coming back online. Unlike Friday, this does not seem to be a targeted attack of any kind, more like a company-wide computer glitch.

We’ll continue to follow the story.

Scott shops on Twitter: @scottbudman

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