Mum's outrage over ALDI surcharges - did you know about these?

lifestyle.com.au:

The debate started when a mum noticed an extra charge on her shopping bill when she checked her receipt after visiting her local ALDI.

She discovered she’d been charged an extra 4c during one trip and an extra 7c during another, as a credit surcharge when using a contactless payment card.

The German-owned supermarket charges consumers a 0.5 per cent surcharge on contactless card transactions. And while this has to be clearly marked on signs in stores after a watchdog ruling by ASIC in 2014, many shoppers still weren’t aware it was happening.

The irate shopper wrote on Facebook “Hey Aldi Mums, did you know that we get charged a credit surcharge when tapping our cards at the register?” she wrote. “It’s only a few cents but still not