A Sainsbury’s supermarket faced a shortage of chilled food after power cuts hit the store.
Outages in Haywards Heath hit the supermarket, meaning that chilled food aisles were bare with severely depleted stock.
A power cut on Sunday, March 12, led to limited availability at a store in the town.
Sainsbury’s put up a sign apologising for the lack of stock but said that they “hope to recover this in the coming days”.
One shopper said: “I went in to pick up some food but the shelves were absolutely empty. We couldn’t get anything that we wanted.
“I wonder if they had to throw stuff out after the power cuts. It’s really bad because no one likes to see food go to waste.”
Power cuts hit thousands of homes last week including in Haywards Heath where many homes were without electricity on both Thursday and Sunday.
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The outage in Haywards Heath meant shoppers in Sainsbury's were left in the dark, while swimmers at the Dolphin Leisure Centre in Pasture Hill Road had to leave the pool.
A spokeswoman for UK Power Networks saying that they “temporarily turned off power in the Burgess Hill area so that we could carry out further safety checks, after a fault in a substation on March 9.”
Properties were affected for around three hours before supply was reconnected.
Sainsbury’s have been approached for comment.
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