Aldi confirms own popular brand item has been discontinued after customer complains about 'terrible decision'

ALDI has confirmed that a popular generic branded grocery item has been discontinued.

Customers took to Twitter to criticize Aldi's move to take the item off the shelves.

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"What happened to your house brand of corned beef hash," a customer asked on Twitter.

"If I wanted name brand Hormel I could go to a regular grocery store."

The company replied that the corned beef hash was permanently removed from the shelves.

"Terrible decision," the angry customer replied.

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Aldi's product was called the Brookdale Corned Beef Hash.

The product had the same USDA establishment number as Hormel's hash product, according to Dave's Cupboard Blog.

The ID number suggests the products were the same - packaged in different containers.

Aldi's hash has been discontinued from both stores and Amazon's delivery.

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Aldi has confirmed it has discontinued multiple products through its Twitter account.

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Aldi also discontinued items from the baking section.

The company confirmed to an agitated customer that the double chocolate bread mix was gone forever.

The grocer also replaced its popular Potato Puffs with Crispy Tots.

Similarly gone are two discontinued snacks with the Specialty Selected label: the Emmentaler and Gouda Cheese Bites.

Same for the Pueblo Lindo Taquitos chips - the company confirmed they're no longer available.

Aldi is changing more than its product offerings - customers noted some in-store changes made by the discount retailer.

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Aldi has been rolling out new self-checkout machines in stores.

Three stores in New York started using the register tech earlier this year - much to the chagrin of some customers.

"#Aldi I’m your customer, not your employee. I already pack my own bags, I refuse to use Self Check Out," a shopper said on the site.

"It’s not for my [convenience], you have put them in place to enhance your profits," they added.

The brand confirmed it will continue to bring more self-checkout to stores nationwide.

The grocer revealed in a tweet: "ALDI is rolling out the offering to new stores every week."

Aldi joins several companies shifting to tech-automated customer service.

However, as brands adopt more customer-dependent payment tech, company executives continue to sound the alarm about a rise in theft.

"It fluctuated a couple three basis points up really before COVID as we rolled out self-checkout and, since then, it’s come back down a little, and it’s in a very tight range," Costco's chief executive officer, Richard Galanti, said about the influx of stealing.

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