Supermarket bosses opened some branches across the country late on Friday morning due to a national issue with ‘electronic systems’, understood to be the tills.
Branches that were affected in Oxfordshire, which were due to open at 7am, include in Abingdon, Wallingford, Oxford’s Peartree Interchange and Wheatley.
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Other supermarkets across Oxfordshire that were due to open at 8am did so on time.
“Every branch is affected”, a source at the supermarket said on Friday during the closure.
“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.”
A Waitrose spokesman said after the store reopened: “All our shops are open as normal.
“Those shops that were due to start trade at 7am opened 10 minutes later due to a delay with the system that initiates the tills, which was quickly resolved.
“The vast majority of shops open at 8am so were unaffected.”
Less than 50 shops across the UK were affected.
