Australian consumers are expected to spend $1.7 billion on hot cross buns, chocolates and food this easter, according to the Australian Retailers Association.
The TWU claims Aldi and other major retailers are putting pressure on the operators and drivers transporting their goods to "delay maintenance, speed, and drive fatigued".
Announcing the change via social media, Aldi Australia said the baskets would be available in every store in the country to help shoppers say goodbye to "octopus arms".
Australia's COVID-19 supply chain crisis due to putting the squeeze on supermarkets, with one farming group warning of "bare barbecues" for Australia Day.
As the surging spread of super-transmissible Omicron cases continue to affect businesses and supply chains across Australia, supermarkets are being hit hard.
Discount German supermarket Aldi is doubling down on its "Good Different" strategy, committing to a permanent price drop to 10 per cent of products sold in its everyday grocery range.
Famous for the speed of its operator-manned checkouts, the self-serve checkout trial will be rolled out in ten NSW stores with each store to have six to eight machines installed at each.
Keen shoppers arrived early with queues of cars snaking through car parks for hours and hundreds of extra security guards hired by the German supermarket giant
Known as the Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands Plastics Pact (ANZPAC), the agreement sets specific goals for the grocery giants to achieve by 2025.