Hey all, just noticed ALDI's website got a fresh new look, way cleaner and easier to browse now. Kinda feels like they might be gearing up for something bigger… maybe even delivery?
With Coles and Woolies already doing online shopping and delivery, it'd be awesome if ALDI finally joined in.
If ALDI offered delivery or click & collect, would you use it?
FWP
Glad I'm not the only one that had that issue……
Double the clicks? It took me 9" clicks to find this cool product. I swear I've seen it in a video somewhere.
Aldi-dazzlers
Delivery seems more plausible than C&C for Aldi's business model. They would have to hire and train more staff for C&C and with Aldi's business model they would have to be trained on working on all the store tasks such as checkout and stocking. With delivery they could hire dedicated packing staff at a centralised delivery center.
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We make lots of room in our larder for their products - living space.
Still, it is better than having a 'First Nations' supermarket. Although they could have a slow delivery service named Walkabout.
Wtf?
I noticed if you google Aldi website there is a tab for online shopping - but it goes nowhere. I would love if Aldi had online shopping
I never use click and collect or delivery, we can't find reduced to clear etc with those.
Partner delivery perhaps (doordash etc), with nice fees
Whoever designed that thing needs to be taken out the back and shot, the usability is awful and it looks like a fake version of the aldi site someone put together as a scam on a minimal budget. Pretty sure no one actually tried using it before they pushed it live.
The whole point of their biweekly deals is to promote specific items, now it's buried somewhere underneath the salmon that's on sale this week.
Hover over special buys and they are all there…
If Aldi allowed online shopping for their usually runs of weekly specials the backyard sellers and the greedy would exhaust stock & destroy the whole model that consumers support. Unless Aldi massively increased the stock levels it would be totally counter productive. And all goodwill would disappear.
Aldi has had deliveries before, at least back in 2022. It was a little like Costco is now. I bought a couple of book box sets from there soon before the delivery service ended. My receipts show no delivery charge. But there is a credit card surcharge.
ACCC Supermarkets Inquiry Final Report
Retail Competition
Recommendation 2
We recommend the Australian Government require {…} large (i.e. ALDI) and very large supermarket chains (i.e. Coles and Woolworths) (by turnover) to publish prices in-store and online via their websites
Aldi is probably anticipating this will be enforced soon. Nothing to do with delivery.
Doubt they'd start delivery. They already know most of their customers are looking for the lowest price, so most of them would be very unlikely to want to pay delivery fees increasing the cost of their order.
Not just that, depleting their already stock via online orders ,so that the shoppers who actually front up miss out ,would break the Aldi model entirely.
It will be a 2 week lag time and when it comes to the delivery day it will be another few extra days.
Aldi is cheap but sometimes the wait is not worth it.
How long have they been charging for paying in-store by card?
If you use a debit card and insert it there are no fees.
I reckon it's been in place for about 3 or 4 years.
Actually we just checked. My wife got charged a few cents for using a Macquarie debit card, but I didn't for a NAB debit card. Both times just tapped on the payment box. Same shop a few days apart.. That seems strange.
If I do a big shop ($300+) I'll insert the card - no fees
Smaller grab and go shops I'll tap - .5% fee every time using a CBA debit card.
@MS Paint: My CBA debit card didn’t get the fee for tapping on a $40 shop last week, is the fee only on very small amounts such as <$10?
Tapping uses the credit function of a debit card on most cards, have to insert to ensure ypu are using eftpos
Nab might use EFTPOS, Macquarie doesn't have EFTPOS so always get fee
@mooseca: Yes, this would seem to be it. Thanks for helping identify the 'problem'.
I wonder if there a list of which cards are 'safe' to use to avoid those specific fees?
@valuer: if your debit card has the EFTPOS logo you are not charged a tap on fee. if your debit card doesn't have the EFTPOS logo you are charged a tap on fee. if you use your mobile to tap on you are charged a tap on fee.
At least 11 years, as I moved near a store at that time and they were doing it then.
If ALDI offered delivery or click & collect, would you use it?
Unlikely.
They have a streamlined model with limited lines. They don't do roast chooks for example. So they probably won't add complexity and cost to their existing processes.
Also, hypothetically, would C&C jump the queue with special buys or not?
Hell Nah should be an option in the poll. Online grocery shopping with Aldi would be, as Forrest Gump once said, "like a box of chocolates".
Somewhat off topic, but has anyone experienced Aldi's new layout? I went to aldi in Croydon (melb) last week. Never again. It was horrific. Everything in the fridge is behind glass doors the occupy half the aisle when open. And shelves have been turned 90 degrees. So instead of one long shelf. It's six or so short selves. It was gridlocked.
Is this the same new layout they started implementing a year or three ago or is it another new layout? The no store I go to converted to glass fridges sometime back but left the shelving as long shelves.
I have been to 3 different Aldi shops in the last month and none of them have been like that. They all had long aisles (from the front of the shop to the back) and then bargain bin / special buys section down the middle.
The location selector needs work. It can't process post codes so I entered the suburb which gave me a choice of 110 locations..
I'm a chronically depressed autistic shut in. Yes I'd absolutely use Aldi delivery.
Would they deliver to aldi-void tasmania???
Hate it. The only reason I go to the website is to check the Special Buys and now it takes double the clicks.