Aldi shoppers rushing to buy iconic kids present scanning for £8 instead of £50 at rival
ALDI shoppers are rushing to buy an iconic children's present scanning for only £8.
The bright pink play set is a whopping £50 at rival Argos - giving shoppers a massive £42 saving.
The Foldable Barbie Dolls House and Doll Playset is a fully equipped kitchen, dining room and bathroom.
True to form, the set is bright pink and is perfect for young children of all ages to play with.
One happy customer posted on the Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK Facebook group and shared their find.
They said: "Picked up this Argos “exclusive” Barbie house in Aldi for £7.99!!"
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One said: "I got one and put away for my daughters birthday. Couldn’t believe the price so asked the lovely cashier to scan first!"
Another posted: "Fab bargain but shame people have already put them on Vinted for £25! think some aldis have sold them as low as a fiver"
A third wrote: "I got two of these for my Grandaughters."
At £8, the Barbie set would be perfect to be put away in the cupboard for a birthday or Christmas.
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It comes after a Barbie Care Clinic playset from B&M was dicounted to £35, compared to the £89 version from Argos.
The themed vehicle allows budding doctors or nurses to play out medical stories with the 20-piece toy set.
New Barbie toys arrived in Lidl in October to celebrate 65 years of the iconic doll.
They are a classic set with a modern twist, and including six accessories, with Barbie and Ken dolls wearing a look inspired by the dolls’ iconic 80s roller skate outfits in one look.
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The high street seems to be suffering all around as Brits steer more towards online shopping and amid high business rates.
Soaring inflation in recent years has also dented shoppers' pockets.
The Centre for Retail Research's latest analysis suggests 13,479 stores, the equivalent of 37 each day, shut for good in 2024.
Of those, 11,341 were independent shops while 2,138 were shut by larger retailers.
The data also showed over half the stores that closed last year were shut due to the store or retailer going through insolvency proceedings.
This is when formal measures are taken to deal with tackling a business's debt.
Retailers are shutting stores in 2025 too.
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The Body Shop is pulling down the shutters on five branches in Exeter, Plymouth, Horsham, Norwich and Sheffield.
Three other branches have already closed in Cambridge and Hove.
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The British Retail Consortium has predicted that the Treasury's hike to employer NICs will cost the retail sector £2.3billion.
Research by the British Chambers of Commerce shows that more than half of companies plan to raise prices by early April.
A survey of more than 4,800 firms found that 55% expect prices to increase in the next three months, up from 39% in a similar poll conducted in the latter half of 2024.
Three-quarters of companies cited the cost of employing people as their primary financial pressure.
The Centre for Retail Research (CRR) has also warned that around 17,350 retail sites are expected to shut down this year.
It comes on the back of a tough 2024 when 13,000 shops closed their doors for good, already a 28% increase on the previous year.
Professor Joshua Bamfield, director of the CRR said: "The results for 2024 show that although the outcomes for store closures overall were not as poor as in either 2020 or 2022, they are still disconcerting, with worse set to come in 2025."
Professor Bamfield has also warned of a bleak outlook for 2025, predicting that as many as 202,000 jobs could be lost in the sector.
"By increasing both the costs of running stores and the costs on each consumer's household it is highly likely that we will see retail job losses eclipse the height of the pandemic in 2020."
