Tesco website down as thousands of customers unable to shop online

Tesco's website went down this morning with frustrated customers unable to do their online shopping.

Outage tracker DownDetector shows the issues started around 8.30am this morning, with more than 1,200 people logging complaints about the Tesco website.

The technical glitch impacted both the Tesco website and app, but Tesco says the issue is now resolved. The supermarket did not reveal what caused the problem, but said its services were only "briefly" impacted.

READ MORE: DWP Winter Fuel Payment: Full list of those to receive hundreds in their accounts

READ MORE: Nestlé CEO Laurent Freixe fired over 'undisclosed romantic relationship'

Writing on X, previously known as Twitter, one shopper said: "Desperately need to add shopping to my nans order and the app and web is down. She’ll blame me if it’s not added. Help!"

Another said: "@Tesco app not working and online grocery site not working. Can’t spend my money!" A third commented: "@Tesco your app and online services are not letting me order a shop online or access any information, is there an issue?"

A fourth said: "Is there an issue with your app? It’s not working and seems to be a fairly big problem." Another person posted: "I'm trying to add to my order for tomorrow but webpage seems to have errors saying its us not you have been trying for 20 mins using different browsers but getting the same message."

A Tesco spokesperson said: “We’ve fixed a technical issue that very briefly affected our app and website earlier this morning. We apologise for the inconvenience.”