Almost a week after a cybersecurity issue with its parent company Ahold Delhaize, Stop & Shop stores are still experiencing shipment issues and empty shelves. Items like milk, cottage cheese, fresh chicken breasts,

Efforts to investigate the cybersecurity “issue” prompted the grocery giant's parent company to disconnect some systems to protect them.

Stop & Shop supermarkets across the state have bare shelves due to a cybersecurity issue. “A lot of the shelves were empty, a lot of staples too,” Hamden resident Michael Montefusco said. Major grocery store chain raising starting pay to $23 an hour Shelf after shelf were bare causing customers like Montefusco to cut his grocery list short.

Kaitlyn Krasselt, a spokeswoman for the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection which regulates pharmacies in the state, said the agency was aware of delays in processing prescriptions at Stop & Shop pharmacies last Friday, but that the backlog has since been resolved.

A cybersecurity “issue” has led the parent company of a supermarket chain to disconnect some systems to protect them.Ahold Delhaize USA said it recently detected a cybersecurity issue within its US network.