Anger over hamster offers from Aldi Süd - customer describes discounters as "war winners"

Aldi in the criticism?

That always happens.

Now one customer even called the discounter a "war winner".

But what do hamster offers and the corona pandemic have to do with it?

• Aldi Süd is

  causing talk with "box-wise" offers.

• Some customers fear further

  hamster purchases

  because of the corona pandemic.

• Aldi * is also seeing

  increased demand

  for certain products again.

Munich - While the number of

in

continues to rise, the so-called

are

also

again in some

cases

.

The second wave wakes up "the hamsters" and again leaves empty pallets, missing toilet paper and pasta shelves.

Hamster offers cause outrage: customer calls Aldi a "war winner"

Aldi Süd * has now unpacked a well-known marketing strategy:

.

On offer are whole boxes of tomato cream soup, tomato sauce, wine, juice - and also pasta.

Customers of the

react mixed.

Some laugh at the renewed wave of "hamsters", others react indignantly or angry.

In his anger over the approach of the discounter giant

, the author of this post slips a small spelling error in between: “Aldi is fueling the hamster purchases!

There are always some

! ”What the Lord means by this is of course“ war winners ”.

At least he does not believe in a coincidence between the

and the

.

Other users react similarly to this type of offer.

During the first

in March, a user posted the following: “Living with the virus - retailers are reacting.” Enthusiasm for the marketing strategy of the

looks different.

Hamster offer and corona pandemic?

Just a coincidence, says the discounter Aldi

However

,

rigorously

denies

a connection between the

offer

and the second Corona wave *

.

“The price campaign 'Box by box ALDI prices' is carried out at regular intervals, as is customary in the industry.

The selection of articles for our price campaigns takes place with a certain lead time.

This also applies to our price campaign, ALDI prices in a box.

The current slight increase in demand for certain products could not be foreseen at the time of planning. ”A spokeswoman for the discounter informed Express.

She emphasizes that there is

to

.

In the individual Aldi Süd and Aldi Nord stores, there are even some restrictions on how many packages of certain products can be bought.

Video: Second corona wave wakes "hamsters"?

At Aldi, the demand for popular products is increasing

Warning against buying hamsters: Aldi also confirms increased demand - there would therefore not be a problem

At the time of the first wave of

, toilet paper, flour and pasta in particular were quickly sold out.

While the number of Corona cases is increasing, there are also more hamster purchases. * Some discounters and supermarkets, including Aldi,

are already

noticing the increased

for

those

same products - but do not see this as a problem.

Apparently, toilet paper is often "hamstered".

A manufacturer for the popular product has now commented on the problem.

"

are

at all,

" said an employee of Essity, the largest toilet paper producer in Germany.