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Fake ALDI UK shops selling cut-price power tools

Shops using the ALDI name and logo appear on web addresses such as aldiuk-store[.]inlayvault[.]shop and sell-ukaldi[.]havenoraa[.]shop, where the ALDI part is only a word placed in front of an unrelated address. The top banner promises free delivery across the UK, but prices are shown in euros. ALDI is a supermarket, yet the shop sells DeWalt and Ryobi power tools, vacuums and batteries with discounts of up to 59%, under a German-language ALDI pasta advert. The shop offers a login, a basket and an email sign-up. At least 14 ALDI-named addresses were reported between August 12 and October 20, 2026, and a new one was reported on the morning of October 20.

Fake ALDI UK shops selling cut-price power tools | Screenshot

What’s different in this version

These traits set this message apart from the usual pattern.

  1. The brand taken is ALDI, a supermarket chain, but the goods are power tools and workshop gear such as DeWalt wet and dry vacuums, Ryobi cordless tools and battery packs.

  2. The menu lists Home Decor, Furniture, Wall Decor, Small Kitchen Appliances and Kitchenware & Tableware, none of which match the products on the page.

  3. The page says it delivers across the UK, but the currency menu is set to EUR and every price is in euros, for example a Ryobi 18V cordless tool at €32.95 instead of €60.73.

  4. The main banner is a German-language ALDI pasta advert, while the shop is aimed at the UK and Ireland.

  5. One product name is a copied Walmart product link, walmart[.]com/ip/DEWALT-20V-MAX-XR-Impact-..., which shows the product list was scraped from another shop.

  6. The addresses follow one pattern: an ALDI word such as uk-aldi, sell-ukaldi, aldiuk-store, aldi-ie or aldieu, placed in front of a domain that has nothing to do with ALDI, most of them ending in .shop.

  7. Several captures show a Cloudflare "Performing security verification" page before the shop loads.

  8. One earlier address, aldi-uk[.]ardenpantry[.]shop, showed an ALDI-branded login page asking for an email address and password.

Other variations of this scam

Other reported versions of this scam.

Related scams

Other patterns in the same category, or that share a brand with this report.

How this scam works

  1. 1

    Step 1: A shop appears at an address that carries a familiar retailer's name without being that retailer's website. The name is often placed to the left of the real address, so it reads correctly at a glance.

  2. 2

    Step 2: The page copies the retailer's wordmark, colours and footer closely enough to pass a glance, including a copyright line in the real company's name.

  3. 3

    Step 3: The goods on sale do not match the retailer: a clothing brand's shop offering designer handbags, phones, drones or car parts, with product text scraped from wholesale listings.

  4. 4

    Step 4: The site behaves like a normal shop. It offers accounts, a basket, orders and a customer service chat, which is what makes a shopper willing to type things into it.

  5. 5

    Step 5: Anything entered goes to whoever runs the site rather than to the retailer, because the retailer has nothing to do with it.

✓ Do this

  • Read the web address from the right. The real site is the last part before the first single slash, and a brand name in front of it is just a word somebody chose.
  • Go to the shop the way you normally would, through its own app or by typing its address yourself, and see whether the same offer exists there.
  • If you have already paid, tell your bank or card provider straight away and ask about a chargeback.
  • If you reused a password on the fake shop, change it everywhere else you use it, from a device you trust.

✗ Avoid this

  • Do not judge a shop by whether it looks right, or by a safety checker finding nothing wrong. A copy can be good enough to pass both.
  • Do not assume a padlock or 'https' means a shop is genuine. It only means the connection is private, not that the shop is.
  • Do not enter a card, an address or a password on a shop you reached from a link, before you have checked the address.
  • Do not trust a brand's logo, a copyright line, or a long list of well-known names on the page. All of those are copied in a few minutes.

Verbatim excerpts from the scam

Exact lines from emails or messages—searchable text so you can compare wording.

  1. 1 Excerpt 1
    ALDI – Good for everyone.
  2. 2 Excerpt 2
    DEUTSCHLANDS WAHRER PREISFÜHRER!