' The shopper, whose Twitter handle is @NEOintheMCR wrote: “Ffs... So I'm in London overnight, and I'm trying to buy some food. I drop into the local Aldi's, only to be told that in order to enter the store I have to download an app and scan a QR code.” In the video, he said: “Look at this, you’re in London, you’re on a business trip, you’re staying in Greenwich and you want to buy some food.
“So you go into the local Aldi’s, like this one, and you think ‘I’m going to go in here and buy some food so I can feed myself’.
“And then you approach the barrier, and look, you can’t get into the shop without having a QR code to scan. And then you can go in and buy things.
“Now this looks to me like the beginning stages of the digital prison that we keep talking about.”
June Slater retweeted the original video and added her thoughts: “Good bye Aldi, I won't use my local store if they're trialling such heavy duty controls..a barrier to GET IN to spend your money. Not everyone has a smartphone, especially the elderly..too much control, this isn't China!”
Poster Comment:
I have an Aldi's in my town. Cheap prices but you can't depend on buying your favorite brand as they specialize in sales. NO QR code entrance requirements in the US yet.