Two pals were shocked after they got locked in Aldi after hours when staff shut shop with them still inside.<br /><br />Sarah Sinclair, 27, popped into the shop for bread and milk with her boyfriend's brother Luke Miller, 25, just before closing.<br /><br />But while they were browsing the aisles staff seemingly finished their shifts and by the time the pair got the checkout, the shop was empty.<br /><br />They'd been accidentally shut inside and had to call 101 to escape, eventually making it out a fire exit, in Redcar, north Yorkshire.<br /><br />The pair were trapped for around 30 minutes and saw the funny side of their ordeal.<br /><br />Sarah said: "When we first arrived there were people in there and staff at the checkouts.<br /><br />"We were just wandering around shopping and didn't pay attention until we went to pay and I started to think 'where's the staff'?<br /><br />"Then we noticed a beeping but at the time, I just wanted my bread and milk so I hadn't thought anything of it - I had barely even noticed the sound.<br /><br />"We started looking around - I turned to Luke and he said 'oh no'.<br /><br />"We couldn't believe it and I was laughing so hard I thought I'd pee until I started thinking 'but what do we actually do?'.<br /><br />"When all the doors were locked I started thinking I'd have to open a drink off the shelf.<br /><br />"But I also thought about how there would probably be a bed among the stuff in the middle aisle so we'd be ok!<br /><br />"Eventually Luke called 101 and the police told us to try the fire doors - we ended up having to go into the stock room at the back to find one that opened, and finally we got out.<br /><br />They got trapped during a shopping trip on December 27th 2021.<br /><br />ALDI declined to comment.
