(This story has been updated to correct an error in the last paragraph.)

A cyberattack on a national health food wholesaler has impacted the Food Co-op in Port Townsend.

United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI), one America’s largest publicly traded health food wholesalers and the primary food distributor for Whole Foods, took some of its systems offline after the cyberattack.

In a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on June 9, UNFI said it became aware of an incident in its information technology systems on June 5, which is causing “temporary disruptions to the company’s business operations.”

According to a statement, it activated an internal incident response plan, took some systems offline, and is working “with both third-party cybersecurity professionals and law enforcement in its efforts to assess, mitigate and remediate the incident.”

But until it can do so, UNFI is unable to fulfill or ship customer orders, which directly affects the Food Co-op.

Kenna Eaton, general manager at the Food Co-op, told The Leader, “In the meantime, we’re working with our local and secondary suppliers to source the products our customers need, while UNFI gets back up and running.”

Eaton added that the National Co-op Grocers, a national network of co-ops, has been working with UNFI “to prioritize deliveries to us, so we can restock the shelves as soon as possible.”

Eaton said on June 10 that the Food Co-op expects to receive a shipment of products during the morning of June 11, and while it may not include “everything we want or need, we anticipate it will fill the bigger gaps.”

When asked whether any of the Food Co-op’s shelves had become noticeably low, or even empty, Eaton said, “Happily, not as bad as one might think,” since the impact has been limited “mostly (to) top sellers.”

She added, “I expect the impacts will linger, but hopefully, not for too long.”

UNFI said that it’s “working closely” with its suppliers and clients to “minimize disruption as much as possible,” while NCG issued a statement on June 9 that “UNFI has limited ability to continue servicing its customers,” and “is working to safely bring its systems back online.”

Although UNFI is currently unable to receive orders directly from customers, NCG said its members with regular Tuesday or Wednesday delivery days could begin receiving NCG-generated shipments as soon as June 10

UNFI makes private label products, as well as its own branded products, and ships them to more than 30,000 grocery stores, including Whole Foods.