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It’s apparently not just inflation that’s siphoning up US shoppers’ hard-earned cash. A Tennessee man is accusing Walmart of putting its thumb on the scale after noticing that the retailer’s meats weighed much less than advertised, per a series of TikTok clips with millions of views.
“They’re straight ripping people off,” declared the patron, known as Jimmy Wrigg, in one of the clips of him weighing a packet of chicken at the world’s largest retailer.
Per the video, captioned “a little heavy on the scale,” the chicken was listed as weighing 4.66 pounds and cost $19.20 ($4.12 per pound).
However, when Wrigg placed the meat packet on the scale, it reportedly clocked in at 2.37 pounds — around half of its listed mass.
It is reportedly illegal for a store to purvey products with inaccurate weights.
In light of the gross discrepancy, the Tennessean vowed to go through “every single one” of the protein packages on display in an effort to air the “f–kin scammers’” dirty laundry.
Indeed, this massive mismatch was allegedly not a one-off.
In a follow-up clip, Wrigg weighs a “little bitty” packet of Kentucky Legend Ham that was billed at 5.34 pounds, only to discover that it actually clocked in at 2.25 pounds.
“They were trying to get someone for $25.59 for this,” accused the TikTokker, adding that he was glad Walmart had scales so they could hold them accountable for the so-called ham scam.
When The Post reached out to Walmart for comment, reps claimed an error was made on Kentucky Legend’s part as they had printed labels that didn’t accurately reflect the price’s true weight.
They referred to a statement from Kentucky Legend that claimed that there were “weight discrepancies with their “1/4 Kentucky Brown Sugar Ham in Walmart in Commerce City, GA.”
“Our investigation confirmed that this error was isolated to a 5-minute window on a single production date,” they claimed. “As a result, we’ve reinforced our processes and safeguards to ensure accurate pricing going forward.”
Meanwhile, a Walmart spokesperson told the Post that “any impacted product was removed from Walmart shelves last week.”
However, Wrigg claimed in another video that he did meat recon in three different Walmarts and found other mislabeled packages in just minutes.
In one, Wrigg is seen weighing multiple wrongfully-priced items in quick succession, claiming that he found a couple of hundred dollars worth of “overpriced meat” in 60 seconds.
He alleged that the chain store was being deliberately deceptive to squeeze extra profits from shoppers reeling from increasingly extortionate grocery prices. Wrigg deemed the so-called false advertising particularly brazen, given that in 2024, Walmart settled a class action lawsuit for 45 million dollars after allegedly slapping overpriced labels on vegetables and meat.
Fed up with Walmart’s alleged culinary catfishing, the content creator decided to report this “a-pork-alyptic” inconsistency to management, towing a cartful of mislabeled meats to show a staffer.
She refers him to a supervisor, who insists they don’t “weigh them” there as they have no method of reweighing them — a claim Wrigg allegedly disproved in a follow-up video showing a scale at one of the retailer’s outlets.
Go figure: the independent muckraker found the manager’s answer unsatisfactory, inquiring, “Is someone supposed to keep an eye on this to make sure it doesn’t go out?”
The staffer said he was going to inform the company’s “home office” and then donate the misrepresented meats to the food bank.
“I don’t feel very confident,” declared Wriggs, who urged others to follow suit and carry out freelance investigations of Walmart’s alleged meat fraud.
Viewers were also appalled by the alleged deception. “This is horrible,” said one outraged fan, while another declared, “You KNOW Walmart knows about this.”
“That many errors in the same product is deliberate,” accused a third. “That is not accidental.”
“Weighing my meats before I buy my meats at Walmart from now on,” pledged another.
In an effort to tip the scales of justice back in the customer’s favor, Wrigg said he sent an email to the Georgia Department of Agriculture’s food inspector, adding that he’d keep viewers posted on his progress.
“We are sick and tired of being scammed at every turn,” Wrigg declared. “It’s the standard operating business procedure in the United States.”
He added, “There’s nothing left for us.”
