Shopper claims that Walmart is "literally scams" with great value
It also warns other customers to check their products.
Grocery bills have skyrocketed in recent years Faced with high inflation . And a way in which buyers try to save money is to return to the basics with regard to the brands they buy. But if you try to reduce costs with the Walmart store brand, you may not really get the "great value" you think you are. A buyer recently went to Tiktok to share a disappointing discovery with the high -value food of the retailer. Read the rest to find out more about the reasons why she claims that Walmart is "literally scams".
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A Walmart buyer recently showed himself with his high -value food.
Heather Lynne Foster published a video In her Tiktok @heatherlynnefoster account on February 13, highlighting a particular problem that she noticed with part of the food she had recently bought in Walmart. In the video, Foster has shown a 12 -ounce smoked Bacon of Hickory of high value. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"Very well, so get a load of that. It is a pack of non-open bacon, right? He says it's 12 ounces," she said in the video. "I picked it up and I said to myself, Hmm, okay, I know that they usually come in a book but I had the 12 ounces instead. It was like $ 4."
As Foster explained, she was "just curious" of the weight of the product, she therefore decided to weigh it on her food scale, which indicated that it was only 7.90 ounces. "Look at this. It's with the package," she said. After removing the bacon from the packaging, the number fell to 7.16 ounces.
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She claims that the retailer is "literally scams" by labeling the packages with the incorrect weight.
After discovering that his high value bacon weighed five ounces lower than what was indicated on the packaging, Foster said that she felt inclined to show others that they are torn off by retailers like Walmart after having already increased prices in the midst of high inflation.
"They literally scam us," she wrote on her tiktok. "These companies charge double for the grocery store and do not even give us what we pay."
She also encouraged others to start weighing their high value products from Walmart. "I think I did my best to prove my honesty, but if you doubt it, start weighting," she wrote in the comments section.
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Others said they had encountered the same problem.
Foster Tiktok exploded, collecting more than 4.4 million views in just two days. And with more than 20,700 comments, it seems that other buyers have started to take a closer look at their Walmart food.
"OMG !! I bought this same bacon and I put it and it was 7 ounces," said a person. Another replied: "Just Weight Mine (same brand) and it's 7 ounces."
But it is not only with the smoked bacon of Hickory of great value that Walmart buyers see this problem appear. "I knew that I was not crazy !!! I obtained a jet of chopped turkey and I weighed it. It was 3 less ounces," wrote a person in the comments section. Another replied: "I bought frozen mushrooms. Weight of the 8 ounce package with two different scales, 5.74 ounces."
Walmart was prosecuted for misappropriating the weight of food products.
Better life Contacted Walmart about these customer complaints, and we will update this story with their response. But as many viewers have underlined it in the Foster Tiktok comments section, the retailer was struck by a collective appeal for this exact problem.
Applicant Kukorini vassilios filed the complaint Against Walmart in the Federal Court of Florida in 2022, alleging that the retailer misled customers by wrongly inflating the weight of the products and errusing the weight of bag products, Legal Newsline reported. And last month, a judge gave the preliminary approval of a regulation of $ 45 million for the collective appeal in favor of Kukorinis, according to the media. Consequently, Walmart can be forced to pay anywhere up to $ 500 to affected buyers.
