Tesco<\/a> branches at a time when football fans were watching the World Cup group game between England and Ghana at pubs, screenings and restaurants.<\/p>\nVideos circulating on social media showed long queues outside cash machines.<\/p>\n
The issue is due to a power outage affecting Worldpay, a payment processing company. A Worldpay spokesperson said: \u201cThe UK experienced a power grid disruption, which is causing intermittent transaction authorization issues for some Worldpay clients.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur technical teams are engaged and working to address the matter as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Worldpay said on its website: \u201cA third-party power disruption is causing intermittent transaction authorization issues and tokenization requests errors on some Worldpay platforms.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur technical teams have restored service to some platforms and continue to troubleshoot to restore full service as soon as possible. \u201c<\/p>\n
Monitoring website Downdetector indicated customers were experiencing problems with making payments at Tesco, with more than 1,000 reports of issues since 8pm.<\/p>\n
In a response to a customer complaint on X, Tesco said: \u201cThere is an issue with Worldpay at the moment affecting us and other businesses taking card payments.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some pubs and entertainment venues announced on social media that they were only accepting cash payments due to the issues.<\/p>\n
Consumers on social media voiced their frustration at the timing of the power outage.<\/p>\n
One wrote: \u201cGlobal outage on @Worldpay_Global- leaving busy pubs in the UK unable to sell beer to customers who don\u2019t have cash \u2026 not great.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another wrote on X: \u201cUnbelievable \u2026 busy England game and World Pay goes down on card terminals \u2026 Multiple sectors reporting issues of terminals down.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Tesco spokesperson said: \u201cAn issue that affected payments in store and online is now resolved. We\u2019re sorry for the inconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n
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