{"id":48093,"date":"2022-11-17T16:16:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T16:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/?p=48093"},"modified":"2022-11-18T10:52:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T10:52:55","slug":"aldi-queue-kevin-the-carrot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/2022\/11\/17\/aldi-queue-kevin-the-carrot\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 70,000 Aldi shoppers queue online for Kevin the Carrot toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\nOver 70,000 shoppers have queued online at Aldi to buy its Kevin the Carrot toys featured in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/?s=aldi\">discount grocer&#8217;s<\/a> 2022 Christmas advert.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;extremely high&#8221; demand for the toys also saw hundreds queuing outside Aldi stores across the country.<\/p>\n<p>By 10am, many of the products including &#8216;Kevin &amp; Katie The Carrot&#8217; and &#8216;Plush Christmas Footballer Set&#8217; which features &#8216;Ronadli&#8217;, &#8216;Bean&#8217;, &#8216;Messy&#8217;, &#8216;Marrowdona and &#8216;MmmBAP&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aldi.co.uk\/kevin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had sold out online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Subscribe to Grocery Gazette for free<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/climate-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"x_al\">Sign up\u00a0here to get the latest grocery and food news<\/span><span class=\"x_al\">\u00a0each morning<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Some keen shoppers were lining up outside stores as early as 5:30am as one customer tweeted: \u00a0\u201cI queue up for new consoles and games, my wife queues up at 5.30am for Kevin the Carrot from Aldi.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I queue up for new consoles and games my wife queues up at 5.30 am for Kevin The Carrot from Aldi \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mr B\ud83e\udd4a\ud83d\udd79 (@Manclad82) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Manclad82\/status\/1593182181849182210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While some were struck with wait times and sold out items, others were quick to share the success of their shop online with some purchasing almost the entire selection.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Got the goods\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r90ErLIJBV\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/r90ErLIJBV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Luke&#8230; (@luke_bwfc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/luke_bwfc\/status\/1593156141605089280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Aldi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/2022\/11\/10\/kevin-aldi-christmas-2022-2\/\">launched its festive themed advert<\/a> which nods to the iconic \u2018Home Alone\u2019 Christmas film as Kevin the Carrot is stranded at home while his family jet off on holiday.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as many other grocery retailers have launched merchandise that ties to their Christmas adverts as earlier this month, discount grocer Lidl unveiled its Lidl-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/2022\/11\/01\/lidl-christmas-jumper-campaign\/\">branded Christmas jumper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Costing \u00a37.99, this follows on from its 2021 festive jumper which was the fastest-selling item from the retailer\u2019s famous middle aisles, with one jumper selling every two seconds on the day of its in-store release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 70,000 shoppers have queued online at Aldi to buy its Kevin the Carrot toys featured in the discount grocer&#8217;s 2022 Christmas advert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":48106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,3928],"tags":[1903,7081,1390,816,4526,83,948],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48093"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48120,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48093\/revisions\/48120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}