Aldi starts RATIONING popular heatwave items including bottled water

BUDGET supermarket Aldi was forced to ration popular heatwave items as the country battles scorching temperatures caused by the heatwave.

The budget supermarket was limiting sweltering shoppers to one type of bottled water per person in one branch.

A sign warning shoppers was spotted at the Streatham store in South London over the weekend.

It read: “Maximum 1x type of water per person.”

Another shopper also complained that they were unable to buy more than two boxes of ice creams at their local Aldi stores.

The Twitter user thanked supermarket giant Tesco for letting them a trolley full of ice-cream there instead.

He wrote: "Thank you for accommodating our shopping to keep our 100+ staff cool on one of the hottest days,

" how do I make a complaint about a rude manager who made up his own rules limiting us to 2 packs when customers were leaving the store with over 5 in the trolley."

Supermarkets are able to introduce limits on items in stores at the mangers discretion.

These limits are usually introduced by individual stores as a result of high demand.

But most shops will have anticipated that there will increased demand for certain products during the heatwave and will have well-stocked shelves.

Aldi says it does not have any official rules in place for limiting the number of popular heatwave items that can be bought instore.

Tesco and Morrisons have confirmed to The Sun that they are not rationing items.

The move comes as schools and attractions close their doors and the mercury soars beyond 30C in some parts of the country.

Meanwhile, Iceland has invited customers to chill out in its freezer aisles amid the heatwave.

Brits have been urged to remain indoors as temperatures hit 32C in Writtle, Essex - making it hotter than Spanish holiday hotspot Ibiza.

It is early in the year for temperatures to hit the 30C mark - with the Met Office warning another heatwave later in the summer cannot be ruled out.

Millions of Brits are working from home today amid fears rails could buckle in the heat.

Commuters have been warned that train times could more than double due to speed restrictions, Network Rail bosses warned.

And the chances of services returning to normal by midweek will depend on any "damage that the weather does to the infrastructure" on Monday and Tuesday, travellers have been told.

Some schools have also closed because the extreme weather.

The Sun has put together a guide to the best ways to stay cool in the heatwave without turning on the fan or air conditioning.

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