Aldi Big Bag?
5Anyone get one?
I got in line to checkout at 9am, a few seconds late because their timer was 23 hours off and I had to refresh the page for it to become available. I was less than 10 seconds from 9am on the dot.
My checkout line went from 18 minutes to 6 minutes before it reported that it was sold out.
It’s like an old school IRK elsewhere in the wild - except with information about where I stood in the process to get one 
Anyway, that’s my morning in regret.
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The countdown clock threw me off but when I refreshed my screen the buy button appeared. Unfortunately my 17 minute wait was too long and it sold-out
@heartny I tried to say hello from my spot a minute back in line, but it was too loud for you to hear
On a whim a few minutes into the wait I hit the page from another phone and the checkout line was 56 minutes long!
Wow… I didn’t even know this was a thing!
Wait, what?
@tinamarie1974
aldibigbag.com/
@heartny @tinamarie1974 I am at least 1000 mi from an Aldi. I didn’t know about this bag thing. Once I move back East might check it out. But if it requires going out at 9PM, sorry I will be in bed.
@tinamarie1974
Yeah, I know, right?
[I mean IDK what this post references…]
@heartny @pmarin @tinamarie1974
No Aldis here.
@heartny @pmarin @tinamarie1974 give them time. They’re breeding like rats
I take it’s kind of like the Ikea blue bags?
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/frakta-shopping-bag-large-blue-17228340/
Or Harbor Freight red bags?
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https://www.harborfreight.com/harbor-freight-55-lb-19-gallon-xxl-bag-71374.html
(As an ITC member, I may or may not have purchased some bags during the free bucket weekends.
@narfcake but bigger!
In the announcement I saw a week or two ago, the bag appeared to functionally be a shopping cart liner. And Aldi has pretty big carts.
But yes, just a branded giant tote bag that’s probably wholly inappropriate for actually shopping unless you’re buying bulk paper towels or something.
@djslack @narfcake Good for putting leaves in if you rake your yard?
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Or buying a huge bunch of chips and snax?
Speaking of snax, if you have a Trader Joe’s, this mix is really good. ($3.49/bag, but some jerk is selling single bags for $14 on eBay!
@djslack Ah.
That’s huge. Both Ikea’s and HF’s are roughly 21 x 14 x 14.
@Kyeh I aspire to one day have a trader Joe’s nearby… The nearest is 3 hours away right now.
@djslack We were so happy when we finally got them in CO! My sister especially shops there a lot.
@djslack @Kyeh I’m lucky to have both Aldi flavors, the TJ and the Aldi-named, within 10 miles. I will admit that I hit Aldi more often. I also like their hard-side folding grocery totes - which they now have in an insulated version here.
@djslack @narfcake my gosh, Im only 61" tall. That would be a struggle
@djslack @narfcake @tinamarie1974 That’s my height too!
@djslack @Kyeh @narfcake @tinamarie1974
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meI, also.@djslack @Kyeh @narfcake they say good things come in small packages!
@djslack @narfcake @tinamarie1974
They do!
Can you lift it when it’s full?
@blaineg Potato chips, yes. Bricks, no.
@blaineg @ItalianScallion A red brick is 8x2¼x4 and weighs 4.9 lbs., so 72 cubic inches. The bag is 36x22x16, so 12,672 cubic inches – so in theory, 176 bricks. Multiply that by 4.9, and that’s 862.4 pounds.
It might be on the heavier side …
I totally forgot about it this morning, but probably wouldn’t get one anyway seeing as All you had trouble
After reading the description, I think I’m just as happy that I had no idea that these existed. I have WAY too much stuff that I almost never use, including two Ikea bags, and this would just be another.
… Why would you want a bigger bag?
@pakopako because you can?
I actually thought it would make a nice portable toybox for my kid’s toys. But first I would have had to take it to Aldi and tried to fill it.
@djslack I get enough glares squeezing onto the bus with two bags of groceries; a wheel-less cart would be much worse for everybody involved