ALDI is notorious for its low prices and the German grocer did not disappoint one customer on her last purchase.
She was able to get a staple item for her refrigerator for much less than at Walmart, saving over $30.
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Aldi customer Daizie Allen praised the grocer online after discovering eggs at a steep discount.
“I swear by Aldi,” she raved in a Facebook post on Monday, shared with the ALDI Aisle of Shame community group.
The customer paired her post with a picture of the “great sale.”
The price of a dozen Goldhen Grade A large free-range brown eggs has been reduced from the original price of $3.55 to just 99 cents.
Her post received over 6,000 reactions and hundreds of comments, with many shoppers weighing in on the best type of egg.
“Free range eggs are best. Free range doesn’t necessarily mean they’re allowed outside,” wrote one shopper.
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The original user eventually updated her post to address the comments.
“I am aware of the differences between conventional, cage-free, free-range and pasture-raised livestock,” she wrote.
“As much as I would like to buy free-range eggs, unfortunately my budget doesn’t allow it, especially since we literally use at least a dozen eggs a day.”
The Aldi customer does the math and explains that she bought seven dozen free-range eggs for a week and paid a total of $6.93 thanks to the special offer.
If she had bought free-range eggs at Aldi, as many had suggested, she found she would have paid $4.39 per dozen, which would have added up to $30.73 for seven dozen eggs.
“That’s a big difference,” she wrote.
The US Sun compared Aldi’s prices with those of Walmart and found that shopping at Walmart would have cost the customer even more.
A dozen large brown organic free-range eggs cost around $5.18 at Walmart – more than five times the price of the free-range eggs that Aldi is offering at a special price of 99 cents.
If she had bought seven cartons for a week at Walmart, she would have spent $36.26 on eggs alone—almost $30 more than her bargain purchase of $6.93.
Other Aldi bargains
Shoppers are flocking to Aldi to grab more bargains.
EGG CRACKDOWN
Many buyers took to the comments section and urged customers to check the expiration date.
They suspected that the price of the eggs was so high because they were close to their expiration date.
“I guess they’re close to their expiration date. Regular cheap eggs cost more,” said one customer.
Another shopper estimated that the eggs were a month or older when they arrived at Aldi.
“No idea how old they actually are, especially when they’re so cheap. I’d do a float test on these eggs,” they said.
Others came to the aid of the original buyer.
“When someone eats nearly a dozen eggs a day, they know they’re going to use them before the expiration date. And remember, the expiration date is not the same as the shelf life,” commented one shopper.
“I bet the lady who got the offer can read and knows when something is not good for her and her family. I say: yay, you found this offer.”
Other Aldi customers were not so satisfied with their purchases at the discounter.
A customer was “disgusted” after finding a used Band-Aid in a popular dessert.
Another shopper almost choked on a metal wire baked into a breakfast product.
