Monster queues for unlikely ALDI product
Footage taken outside one of ALDI’s Sydney stores has shown customers waiting in lines up to 400m long to pick up a very unlikely buy.
In a user’s YouTube video, a large number of customers are seen queuing up outside an ALDI store in Western Sydney on the morning of Saturday, May 8.
ALDI fans have been known to line up for air fryers, back-to-school gear, and winter ski sales, but this time shoppers were looking to get their hands on something different.
The product that’s in such hot demand? ALDI’s new range of budget cast aluminium pots and pans.
The supermarket’s Special Buys sale for May 8 included three cast aluminium saucepans, a frypan, and a baking dish - all priced between $19.99 and $24.99.
Many shoppers reported seeing similar buying frenzies at their local stores too.
“Was the same at my local ALDI too, heaps of heaters - but the pots and pans, all gonski,” one said.
Another added: “I saw a woman at ALDI Greensborough Plaza yesterday with a trolley full of the pots and pans. She had them stacked two and three high.”
An ALDI worker said: “We had just about the same queue in Glenmore Park this morning, was crazy to see!
“We had to open up five registers this morning within the first 2-3 minutes, air fryer, heaters and all pots and pans are already sold out.”
Many viewers were surprised by the rush of shoppers trying to grab items depicted in the video.
Some were questioning what the fuss was all about.
“Bizarre. Nothing really that special about the pots and pans that warrants this reaction. You can get similar elsewhere without the queues and the battle scars,” one said.
“How many pots and pans does the average person need? I have had the same set for over 50 years!” another wrote.
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