Aldi shoppers were not messing about when it came to grabbing the coveted hanging egg chair this time around.
75,000 shoppers surged onto the German chain's site on Sunday in a bid to get their hands on the popular Specialbuy item which was being restocked.
A few weeks ago, the budget supermarket announced it was going to restock its popular Hanging Egg Chair (£199.99), which sold out almost instantly the first time round.
According to the Liverpool Echo, the chair was available to pre-order it from midnight.
But the website couldn't handle the influx of visitors and it crashed, with thousands of shoppers left waiting in the online virtual queue before they could even access the website - and the chair sold out in 28 minutes.
Disappointed customers took to Twitter to share their struggles.
"You know Saturday nights have changed when you’re up at midnight to order an Aldi Hanging Egg Chair", said one.
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Another tweeted: "There’s 45,000 people in front of me in a queue for a hanging egg chair for the garden on the Aldi website.
"Swear it’s easier to buy Glasto tickets than for a chair for my mum to drink wine in on a Saturday afternoon."
