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SubscriberA message from ALDI.
COVID-19: An Important Update For Our Shoppers Tuesday 17 March 2020
As we face constantly changing circumstances related to COVID-19, we’d like to update you on the steps we are taking as a business to ensure that you have access to fresh food, hygiene products and essential items. We also want to let you know that there is more than enough food to go around; we just need your patience and support. Today, we are announcing new trading hours, additional product restrictions, a change in our refund policy and some new conditions of entry to our stores. Trading Hours As of Wednesday, 18 March we will be changing all store trading hours to 9:30am - 7pm, (unless other state and local trading restrictions apply). We will continue to re-evaluate these hours on a weekly basis and communicate the decision to either uphold the change or return to normal trading hours. Restrictions To be able to provide Australians access to the essential products they need, we have decided to temporarily restrict purchases on the following products, this was enforced from 17 March, 2020:
- Toilet paper - 1 unit
- Dry pasta - 2 units
- Flour - 2 units
- Dry rice (excludes microwave rice) - 2 units
- Paper towels - 2 units
- Tissues - 2 units
- Hand sanitisers - 2 units
Returns To discourage over-purchasing we are temporarily suspending our change-of-mind refund policy on a number of products. If you have already purchased additional items you no longer want, please look at donating them to community organisations or neighbours who have been struggling to purchase them during this time. From the 17 March 2020, until further notice, we will not provide a refund where you have changed your mind about products purchased from ALDI in the following categories:
- Toilet paper
- Tissues and serviettes
- Paper towels
- Nappies and baby wipes
- Feminine hygiene and incontinence products
- Hand sanitisers
- Cleaning products (including anti-bacterial wipes)
- Canned food (including fish, fruit, vegetables, soup)
- Pasta and pasta sauce
- Rice and rice meals
- Cooking oils and vinegars
- Flour
Trading Hours Our employees, Australian business partners and transport operators have been working incredibly hard to deliver more products than ever into stores each day. To allow them time to stock shelves and perform a thorough clean of the store for the next day, we have decided to temporarily change our trading hours. As of Wednesday, 18 March, we will be changing all stores trading hours to 9:30am - 7pm, unless other state and local trading restrictions apply. We appreciate that these new times may be an inconvenience for those who regularly shop with us and we would like to thank you in advance for your understanding. Customer Behaviour Together with our store employees we’ve agreed on new conditions of entry to our stores:
- Respect our employees and their physical space
- Respect each other and look out for those less able
- Practice good hygiene in our stores
- Do not attempt to ‘game’ our product restriction policies
- We remind you that we will not accept any violent behaviour (verbal or physical) in or around our stores and the police will be called immediately if required
- Be kind, be calm, be empathetic and most of all be courteous
- And please, do one nice thing for someone else when you leave our store today
In return, we are supporting our 13,000 employees across the country and implementing the necessary hygiene procedures to ensure you can shop with confidence. We’re constantly monitoring the situation and will do our best to keep all products available to everyone. However, if we see new shortages, we may introduce other limits. We’ll only do this if we think it’s absolutely necessary and we’ll keep you updated in our stores and on our website as things change. This is unchartered territory for many of us, so please remember to be kind, be calm, be empathetic and most of all be courteous. We thank you for your continued patience as our teams around the country work hard to support you and our local communities. For more information and the latest updates please visit www.aldi.com.au/en/covid-19-update Regards,
ALDI Australia
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
A Keeper of the TGO
Some very interesting analysis on COVID-19- we were and, always will be, behind the eight ball unless we approach isolation in the same way as China, Korea and Japan.
Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now - Tomas Pueyo - Medium
This clip is a great summary of the above:
Cheers,
Sean
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.” - Albert Einstein
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Bob, maybe you and I should expose ourselves to the virus now, before we get old.
Too late for Steve and Ray.
If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
Cynical Moi?
In my mind's eye I reckon you may be a bit late for that.
SysAdmin (Owner)
i am hearing more stories suggesting they are going to shutdown small shops and the likes of woolworths / coles are going to rotate the opening of suburban shops ie have neighboring shops open on alternating days to allow restocking and control the flow of food etc etc.
why force the shutdown of small shops ?
this is getting eerie....
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SubscriberOriginally Posted by V8Ian
Bob, maybe you and I should expose ourselves to the virus now, before we get old.
Too late for Steve and Ray.
Crikey Ian, I nearly fell off my chair then. Until I saw " to the virus'.
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
Cynical Moi?
Did they mean Coles & WW Suburban shops? That would make some sense.
You reckon that is eerie,try this for size. 'er indoors just read this 5 mins ago.
A bloke claims that his wife visited 17, yes 17, Supermarkets trying to buy some Baby Formula. Not one did she find, but somewhere along the line a photo was published to show 13 Tonnes at the airport awaiting shipment to China.
Reminds me of the Chinese Amphibious Ship that called into Sydney Harbour recently (Garden Island I think it was berthed) when Trucks from the ship delivered a whole ****load of Baby Milk onboard to go back to China. Supposedly the small fleet came all the way from the Middle East via Oz & was on route back home & it was reported as a Courtesy Visit. So not out of their way then.
A lot of people were very surprised to see these unexpected ships in the Harbour but the Gubmint said they were aware of them arriving but it did sound a bit shonky/hollow the way it was explained.
Appears they may have been taking home the milk that was being raided from supermarkets by Chinese groups, in great quantities, stockpiled & then shipped leaving Australian kids short.
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Subscriber[QUOTE=4bee;2981956]Did they mean Coles & WW Suburban shops? That would make some sense.
You reckon that is eerie,try this for size. 'er indoors just read this 5 mins ago.
A bloke claims that his wife visited 17, yes 17, Supermarkets trying to buy some Baby Formula. Not one did she find, but somewhere along the line a photo was published to show 13 Tonnes at the airport awaiting shipment to China.
Reminds me of the Chinese Amphibious Ship that called into Sydney Harbour recently (Garden Island I think it was berthed) when Trucks from the ship delivered a whole ****load of Baby Milk onboard to go back to China. Supposedly the small fleet came all the way from the Middle East via Oz & was on route back home & it was reported as a Courtesy Visit. So not out of their way then.
A lot of people were very surprised to see these unexpected ships in the Harbour but the Gubmint said they were aware of them arriving but it did sound a bit shonky/hollow the way it was explained.
Appears they may have been taking home the milk that was being raided from supermarkets by Chinese groups, in great quantities, stockpiled & then shipped leaving Australian kids short.[/QUOTE
The Chinese were expected, and if any one thinks truck loads of contraband can sneak into GI , and be loaded on foreign warships, tell 'em they're dreamin'.
Sydney surprised as PM greets Chinese Navy Can't say any more as it would be political.
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
Is there any proof that actually happened? Sounds like an urban myth.
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SubscriberDid not happen. Can't explain here.
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
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