Aldi sells the weirdest things, and with 120 new stores rolling out there will be a lot more of it

Dana McCauley
OCTOBER 11, 2015
news.com.au
Aldi’s expansion marches on.
ALDI does not live by bread alone.
In fact the supermarket chain is getting customers through the door as much for the eclectic as the everyday items on the shelves. On any day, the range can include industrial meat slicers, crutches, punching bags, megaphones, electric guitars, medicine balls and marine safety equipment.
The German company is now expanding its empire, spending $700 million moving into South Australia and Western Australia, which will add 120 new stores and take the total to 497 outlets.
For many Australians that means just one thing: more weird things to buy.
While most of Aldi’s shelves are stocked with its standard range of cut-price essentials, it’s the middle aisle where the fun begins.
It’s here that Aldi displays its ever-changing range of niche products that can bamboozle the uninitiated.
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