Woolworths stores across Australia suffering technical glitch with self-serve checkouts

Woolworths stores across Australia are suffering from a technical glitch that has caused major issues when buying groceries.

Woolworths has been hit by major technical issues with its self-serve checkout counters across the country, the supermarket giant has confirmed.

Multiple customers reported outages at the self-serve kiosks on Wednesday afternoon.

A spokesman for Woolworths confirmed the service was temporarily unavailable in many of its stores.

“We’ve experienced an IT issue at our self-serve checkouts in stores this afternoon,” Woolworths told NCA NewsWire in a statement.

Many of Woolworths’ self-serve checkouts are down across the country. Picture: Supplied

“Stores remain open as we can still process transactions through checkouts operated by our team members and through the self-serve checkouts that are still operational.

“We are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.

“We apologise for any inconvenience to customers and thank them for their patience.”