Stop & Shop’s website and mobile application remained offline early Thursday over a “security issue” announced by its parent company Monday.Ahold Delhaize, the Netherlands-based company that owns Stop & Shop as well as various grocery store chains across the United States, Europe and Indonesia, took “some systems offline” as a precautionary measure while its “teams are taking steps to assess and mitigate the issue” within its network, the company said in a Monday news release.”Protecting our infrastructure in the best interest of our customers, associates and partners is a top priority,” the Dutch company added. “We apologize for any inconvenience this issue may have caused customers and partners.”Stop & Shop’s website and application remained inaccessible early Thursday. Although its brick-and-mortar grocery stores, pharmacies and gas stations are open, customers were advised that any digital orders they previously placed that went unfulfilled will be refunded, Stop & Shop said in a statement.”We are working to restore service as quickly as possible,” the grocery chain added. ” … We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.”Nicholas Grasso covers breaking news for Newsday. A Long Island native, he previously worked at several community newspapers and lifestyle magazines based on the East End.
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