Do you shop at your local Co-op? The grocer is now offering its members a “thank you” gesture following a major cyber attack that disrupted payments and left shelves bare last month.
To “express gratitude”, the Co-op has revealed customers will be able to claim £10 off a minimum £40 shop.
It will be available to the business’s six and a half million members who supported the business during the attack and provides 25% off a £40 in-store shop.
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The offer, which can be used by members once, will run for one week and takes effect from June 18, until midnight on June 24.
The deal will also be available to new members.
The Co-op’s stock availability was affected due to the attack in May, and shoppers faced empty shelves because of the continued fallout.
Hackers also stole members’ personal data, such as names and contact details.
The Co-op was just one of a number of retailers and other firms to have been hit by a raft of cyber attacks striking the sector in recent months.
Marks & Spencer was forced to halt all online orders after a cyber incident in April, which bosses have said was likely to cost the business around £300 million, while Harrods was also hit.
The convenience retailer announced the “thank you” as its 2,300 food stores returned to usual trading, with all marketing activity resuming including a new national summer advertising campaign.
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Matt Hood, Co-op Food managing director, commented: “I’m very proud that, thanks to the work of our colleagues, we are very near to making a full and complete recovery from the recent cyber-attack on our Co-op, and I’m delighted to see our stores looking back to normal and being able to serve our shoppers and communities.
“We are so grateful to our member owners for their support and patience with us during what was a very difficult time and hope this gesture of appreciation goes a little way to showing them our thanks, with more value rewards to come over the summer. Co-op stores are now full of summer products, providing great value and good quality food and drink, so there is lots to choose from for our members to use the thank you offer.
“Our Co-op is a special business, 180 years old, with people, community and a sense of purpose at its heart, and our member owners are our backbone, giving us the focus to ensure we continue to run the best small shops in the UK.”
