The supermarket has had to crack down on stockpilers.

Supermarkets across the nation have seen a huge increase in customers stockpiling items such as toilet roll and dried goods, leading to mass shortages country-wide. Now, Aldi has introduced new measures to make sure all customers are able to purchase what they need during the COVID-19 outbreak.

The popular budget supermarket has implemented a restriction to only four items per person across all products this week in a bid to stop people from stockpiling – including non-perishable goods such as pasta, rice and toilet roll.

As we have seen an unprecedented demand across our range, we will be limiting customer purchases to four units on all products to ensure all of our customers have an opportunity to purchase them. We thank you all for your patience during this time. (2/2)

— Aldi Stores UK (@AldiUK) March 14, 2020

Confirming the news on their Twitter page, customers have flocked in the comments to give them praise for the decision, with one user even saying they’d visited a store where a customer was trying to purchase eight 24-packs of toilet roll.

https://twitter.com/Zeo2113/status/1238834606922706951

Seems fair. Anyone bulk-buying or stockpiling is just selfish, there's simply no need for it.

— SPeedY_B 🧡🇺🇦 (@speedyb) March 14, 2020

Photos of numerous elderly people trying to do their shopping amongst empty shelves emerged on social media over the past week, showing the effects the large-level of stockpiling has had on vulnerable shoppers.

Just seen this photo on social media☹️ if anyone has any elderly people as neighbours and know they don’t have friends or family please check in on them. It’s a scary time 👎🏻 pic.twitter.com/aER0pTwCXS

— Kady Mcdermott (@kadymcdermottx) March 12, 2020

Other supermarkets have been working around the clock with suppliers to replace stock, with Tesco also confirming they have now introduced limits on products to crack down on stockpiling.