Thorntons is struggling with Easter demand - here's where else you can buy their eggs online

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Thorntons shoppers have been left unable to buy Easter eggs online for days, as the chocolatier website closes intermittently due to a daily order limit.

The British chocolate producer and retailer is closing its website daily, once a daily quota on new orders has been reached.

This comes after Cadbury shoppers were placed in a digital queue when trying to buy Easter eggs on its website.

While shoppers can access the Thorntons site every day at 9am (the time the web store is opened for orders) some customers have been struggling to purchase their desired goods before the e-commerce site shuts abruptly, due to an usually high influx of customer orders.

What has caused the issue?

The sudden influx of orders is due to the lockdown measures in place in the UK, which only allow citizens to leave their houses for specific purposes. While one of these exceptions is grocery shopping, many have turned to internet shopping as a less risky way of purchasing non-essential goods.

Additionally, Thorntons closed all of its 100 UK stores in response to the pandemic, giving its customers no choice but to purchase their treats online.