A WALMART shopper was shocked to find a charge for an item she didn’t buy after checking out.
The shopper shared a photo of her receipt on Facebook, explaining that her family is low-income and uses food stamps when buying groceries at Walmart.
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“So we bought all kinds of food worth $463!” wrote Taylor Mathess, adding that she used self-checkout to complete the transaction.
“Now the self-checkout is a joke! They charged us an extra $13.66 for the cooked shrimp we didn’t even buy AND made us pay cash for it!”
The photo had a listing for a 1-ounce bag of cooked shrimp for $13.66 circled.
Most of the other items on Mathess’s receipt cost about $1 to $2.
“So whenever you’re checking out at Flatwoods Wal-Mart CHECK YOUR RECIPES!”
In the comments, one person said that they always check their receipt before leaving the store.
“You also need to check what price they charge,” warned the person.
“It can show a price on the shelf and then at checkout it will be more.”
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Other Wal-Mart A shopper warned customers about a scam after noticing a strange charge on her receipt.
She explained that while at a store in Bangor, Maine, she was shocked to see a total of $99.96 for two bags of items.
“I felt my stomach drop as usual,” Morgan Rackliff he wrote on Facebook, adding that nothing she purchased was “overly sophisticated.”
“[I] I looked back at the list of items, shook my head in disgust, and reluctantly placed my card in the reader and paid for it.”
However, when he got back to his car, he looked at his receipt and found three transactions he didn’t make.
The incorrect charges were for a $30 gift card, an E-911 fee, a charge for making emergency calls, and $5.52 phone support.
Rackliff immediately returned to the Wal-Mart spoke to customer service, believing she had been scammed.
Apparently there’s this new thing where someone goes to a self-checkout, scans their stuff, and then leaves without actually paying for it,” she explained.
How to check if stores are overcharging
- Shoppers should always double-check the tag on the item they are holding with the tag on the store shelves
- If the product has been misplaced, you may be seeing an inaccurate price
- In automatic checkout, be sure to compare the advertised price with the price you saw on the sales floor
- For heavy items, it is important to check that the scale is at zero before weighing the product.
- Stores are required to display the weight on display, so managers must be notified if it is hidden
- Scales must also not touch any other part of the self-checkout
- After paying, buyers should compare what they paid to the items’ sales price
Apparently there’s this new thing where someone goes to a self-checkout, scans their stuff, and then leaves without actually paying for it,” she explained.
Despite receiving a refund, Rackliff said she was still upset about the incident.
“What the hell is wrong with people? Check your receipts!” she wrote.
The US Sun reached out to Wal-Mart to comment.
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