Customer’s surprise find inside a Smith’s chips multi-pack: ‘This is a scam’
- Shopper claims to have found Aldi chip packet in Smith’s Chips bag
- She claimed the discovery as a ‘scam’ but others offered an explanation
A shopper claims she found a small bag of Sprinters Chips from Aldi inside a multi-pack of original Smith’s Chips – sparking mixed reactions online.
Chip-lover Gemma was furious with the discovery and dubbed it a ‘scam’ on Smith’s behalf.
After sharing an image comparing the two bags side-by-side, other customers claim products by several big-name brands tend to be on the ‘same production line’ but feature different packaging.
‘Smiths scam! I just opened a packed of smiths original chips and found a packet of Aldi’s brand chips in there!’ Gemma wrote and shared the photo on Reddit.
‘Obviously Smith’s also manufacture the Aldi brand which is significantly cheaper! Is this a thing?’
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Pepsico Australia, the manufacturer of Smith’s Chips, and Aldi Australia for a comment.
Gemma claims she found an Aldi Sprinters Original chip packet (left) in a Smith’s Chips bag (right)
Daily Mail Australia understands the Aldi range of Sprinters chips can be found in stores nationwide, with multi-packs also available.
The Reddit post quickly received more than 8,900 likes and other shoppers commented on the situation.
Some claim big brands tend to make the ‘same product’ with a slightly different recipe and packaging which is then distributed to supermarkets.
‘I did work for Tip Top bakeries a while back. They do Coles and Woolworths bread. It’s made on the same production line, but the recipe is different,’ one person claims.
‘It’s well known that many Aldi products are just white label from other manufacturers,’ another added.
A third wrote: ‘Can confirm this is true for brie and cam cheese there. Same product just different packaging.’
Another person said they used to work for a company that made banana bread for a number of brands and wrote: ‘For copyright purposes, the only difference between the bread may have been like 100g of sugar or slightly adjusted flour to raising agent ratios over massive batches.
‘You couldn’t tell the difference in taste or texture, we just changed the packaging depending on who we were making it for.’
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