Aldi: Customers are surprised by the Corona rule – alcohol only for vaccinated people?

Created: 2022-02-07Updated: 2022-02-07, 8:57 p.m

By: Daniel Hagen

If you want to go shopping at Aldi, you have to wear a mask in Germany.

In other countries, however, the rules go even further.

When you go shopping in Germany, supermarkets and discounters such as Aldi, Kaufland,* Lidl and Co. use signs to draw your attention to the current corona rules.

Wearing a mouth and nose protector, keeping your distance and using a basket or shopping cart are recommended.

2G rules also apply to shopping throughout the republic, but not in shops that sell essential goods such as food or drinks.

When it comes to several big deals, that should change.* In Australia – where the discounter has been around since 2001 – the corona rules are a bit stricter.

HEIDELBERG24 reveals exactly what that means.*

Aldi in Australia: alcohol purchase only with vaccination?

Since the company was founded in 1961, Aldi has managed to open branches in eleven countries on four continents.

So it is also possible that in the USA a man is forgotten in an ALDI branch*.

There are also several shops in distant Australia, where RTL's jungle camp took place before the pandemic.

The country has repeatedly made it into the news in recent years with its strict entry requirements.

Most recently because of the failed entry of tennis star Novak Djokovic.

There is currently a new excitement on social media that shows how strict the regulations are there.

It's about a photo that's going around on Twitter right now.

It reportedly shows an Aldi window in Western Australia.

"From January 31, 2022, you will be required to provide proof of your vaccination when purchasing alcohol in this store," reads a piece of paper with an Aldi logo in the corner.

This tough rule seems to have been imposed by the government and of course causes frustration and confusion.

Aldi in Australia: is the photo a fake?

"You can walk around the supermarket all day and buy all the food you like, but if you want to buy a bottle of alcohol in the same store, you have to prove your vaccination status first," wrote the tweeter, for example.

Other users also complain about the measure, for which there is no scientific basis.

This Aldi photo from Australia causes a shitstorm.

© Screenshot/Twitter

The big question, however, is whether this message from an Aldi branch is really real or whether it is fake news.

Because if you read the current corona rules in Western Australia carefully, you will notice that there is no such provision.

Supermarkets are not included in the list of places where proof of vaccination is required.

The only thing that would fit would be so-called "bottle shops" that sell alcohol - but Aldi is not one of them.

Nothing can be found on the official website of the discounter either.

Aldi in Australia: Twitter user works for critical medium

So is this message a fake?

It is striking that the author of the tweet, who was the only one who took a photo of the Aldi notice, works for an Australian news medium that describes the corona virus * as a cold and supports and celebrates the uprising against the government.

The comments below the tweet also call for unrest, Aldi boycotts and property destruction.

So it looks as if this could be a fake, as used by lateral thinkers and conspiracy ideologists in Germany, for example.

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