The Welsh village of Cyffylliog was invaded by bargain-hunting shoppers looking for a non-existent Aldi supermarket that Internet trolls added to Google Maps as a prank. The “add a missing place” feature on Google Maps can be very useful when used correctly, but when abused by pranksters, it can cause headaches for entire communities. In the case of Cyffylliog, the city's inhabitants have seen a flood of confused shoppers looking for a phantom Aldi supermarket that only exists as a pin on Google Maps. Believed to have been added by a local Internet troll, the listing has so far led thousands of people to a grassy field, miles away from the nearest checkout lane. Locals say they have been visited by vans trying to deliver groceries and bread to the non-existent supermarket, as well as confused shoppers led there by their smartphones. After a milk truck became stuck on a narrow village road trying to deliver its cargo to the phantom Aldi, locals tried to get the pin removed from Google Maps, but it was only after Aldi itself became involved that the miracle actually happened. After news of the milk tanker getting stuck in Cyffylliog went viral, an Aldi spokesperson confirmed that the company had no plans of opening a store in the village and that it would be working with Google to have the listing removed from Google Maps.
