On Saturday 11 May 2025, one of ALDI Australia’s special buys themes is laundry. What jumped out at me from the catalogue? The cheapest product on offer: 60 plastic clothes pegs for $2.99. ALDI had the exact same deal last May – how much have prices changed? (Spoiler: not much – and ALDI still isn’t the cheapest).
With this deal, per peg, ALDI is charging 4.98 cents.
Experience shows that ALDI is very often cheaper than its competition, but not invariably. It charges more for Vegemite, for example, and some of its products are demonstrably inferior. So how do the pegs stack up against obvious rivals? Let’s find the cheapest example at other retailers.
- At Coles, a packet of 34 plastic pegs costs $1.85. That’s 5.44 cents per peg, so ALDI is still ahead. This hasn’t changed in a year.
- At Woolworths, 60 plastic pegs will set you back $3.50. That’s 5.83 cents per peg. I’m guessing ALDI primarily had this one in mind when it set its pricing. This also hasn’t changed in a year.
- At Kmart and Target, a 48 pack of pegs costs $2. This is just 4.17 cents a peg. The Kmart price hasn’t changed in a year, while the Target deal is cheaper (it was $3 last year)- reflecting the fact that Target now sells Anko product just like Kmart and essentially functions as a Kmart clone.
- The very cheapest deal is at Woolies-owned Big W, where 50 plastic pegs are $2.00. That 4 cents per peg – the cheapest you can get. Last year, Big W was charging $3 for this packet, just like its owner.
- So ALDI’s deal is plenty cheap, but you can do better if you want to shop around.
I know: the cheapest peg may not be the best peg, and all these stores will sell you more expensive options that bruise your clothes less/don’t rust/will sing the theme from Les Mis while you peg out your washing. You do you.
The other lesson? While prices have risen in dozens of other categories, pegs are actually cheaper than they were a year ago. Go figure.
Note: I updated my original May 2023 article on 10 May 2024 with fresh price details.
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