A woman couldn’t believe what she was hearing when an Aldi staff member said that she’d have to check with her manager whether she could sell her the bags of popcorn she wanted
A woman was left dumbfounded when she was told she wasn’t allowed to buy popcorn at her local Aldi for a baffling reason. Holly, who posts on TikTok as @holly_mum2three, asked her followers whether she was in the wrong or whether the supermarket was at fault for not selling her the snacks for her son’s Christmas movie night.
“I always try to help out at as many PTA (parent teacher association) events as I can, and my role for the last couple of years at this event is to be in charge of making popcorn bags for the kids,” Holly explained. She said she’d gone to Aldi to buy 45 share bags of popcorn so she could put together 200 individual bags for all the kids.
She explained there were only 44 bags of popcorn available at the store, but she was going to wing it and hope it would be enough. When she went to the till she handed the member of staff one of the bags, telling her she had 44.
She said: “I fully expected her to say she needed to count them,” which she was happy for her to do. However, instead, she was left floored when the woman at the till said she was going to have to check whether she was allowed to sell that many bags of popcorn at once.
After a back and forth with her manager, they came to the conclusion that they were not able to sell her 44 bags, and they’d only be able to let her buy 22.
“I was told it was because they didn’t have any more stock of the popcorn in the back, and therefore I couldn’t take it all,” Holly said.
“Now, I was left a little bit confused by that because one, I thought the whole point of a shop was that you can go and buy stuff, is that not what a shop is for?
“And two, if I went into Aldi and I only needed one bag of popcorn and there was one bag of popcorn on the shelves, and they didn’t have any others in stock, would they refuse to sell me that one bag of popcorn because they didn’t have any more stock?
“I don’t think they would.”
In the comments, someone wrote: “The reason is that Aldi is not a wholesaler, therefore does not sell in bulk. Aldi wants all of their products to be available to all customers who enter their shops.
“If you buy those 44 bags, they won’t be able to have that stock back on sale for two days, because they order their stock two days in advance of their deliveries. Aldi stores are happy to order the amount of stock you need, if you go in two days prior for them to order it in for you”.
Another suggested Holly should have gone in and bought the other 22 bags in a separate transaction and at a different till.
But others reckoned it was a “good business decision” not to allow her to buy all of the popcorn bags, even though she had a good reason.
Source: Mirror
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