‘Kroger this is illegal’: Man finds 2 lbs of ground beef on sale for $3.60 at Kroger. Then he weighs it on the store scale
In recent years, customers have found frequent instances of the weight specified on raw meat and produce at the grocery store not matching what shows up on the scale.
One Walmart customer, for example, weighed the turkey breast she had purchased at the store and said it weighed 1.9 pounds instead of the 3.23 pounds the packaging claimed. Another Walmart shopper said their chicken, which was supposed to be 6.39 pounds, was actually 4.4 pounds.
Now, a man is calling out grocery chain Kroger for allegedly participating in similar mislabeling.
While at the store, he filmed himself weighing burger patties and comparing the numbers to what he found on the packaging. The result was frustrating.
He Says The Math Did Not Math With Kroger Pricing
“All right, so this makes no sense to me at all,” the shopper says at the start of the video.
He explains that he is at Kroger and found ground beef patties on sale. The package contains two patties.
“It’s ground beef. Well, supposedly supposed to be ground beef for $3.60,” he says.
According to him, the label says the sale price is $1.80 per pound, with a total price of $3.60.
“So that would mean that there’s at least two pounds of meat, right?” he asks. “$1.80 times two is $3.60. So in theory, this should be two pounds.”
Then he places the package on a store scale.
“It doesn’t even hit two pounds,” he says. “It doesn’t hit a pound. Like, what is that all about?”
To make sure the issue is not with one scale, he moves to another.
“This one here, it is on zero,” he says.
He places another $3.60 package on the scale.
“Under a pound,” he says. “Under a pound.”
Then he weighs another package with the same listed price.
“$3.60, $1.80 a pound. No camera cuts,” he says. He shows there’s nothing on the scale, and the result is the same; it weighs less than a pound.
He even weighed two of the packages together, and it did not hit two pounds.
“Like, you can’t make this stuff up,” he says. “I mean, this is crazy.”
The shopper says he is otherwise a Kroger fan, but the numbers did not make sense to him.
“Listen, I love Kroger,” he says. “But come on, you cannot be doing the customers dirty like that.”
Kroger Has Faced Similar Weight Complaints Before
This is not the first time customers have raised questions about Kroger product weights.
In 2025, class-action attorneys investigated claims that certain Kroger-brand Heritage Farm boneless, skinless chicken packages weighed less than the net weight printed on the label. That investigation is now marked complete, and no further developments have been made public.
Customer reports about Kroger weight inaccuracies still show up online, too.
On r/wayofthebern, one poster claimed Kroger was selling frozen buffalo wings in bags marked 22 ounces even though “bag after bag” allegedly came up short. The poster said the first bag weighed 20.8 ounces and the second bag weighed even less.
There is also a 2025 Ohio-area Reddit post involving Kroger sour cream labeled “Net Wt 16 oz” that allegedly weighed only about 12 ounces, including the container.
Kroger did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Commenters Were Split
In the comments, some viewers accused major grocery chains of overcharging customers.
“This is the problem with Smith, Kroger’s and Walmart,” one commenter wrote. “They’re ripping off the customers they don’t give a sh–. It’s all about the bottom line then they make more money off of us when food prices are so god— high.”
Another viewer argued that the shopper may have misunderstood the label.
“You’re not paying per pound your paying per pre-made burger patty,” they wrote.
That could be one possible explanation, but it would’ve been standard practice to also include the price per weight, or specify the weight of the product being sold.
A third commenter suggested the label may have been moved from another product.
@theritchietv Kroger this is illegal #meat #steak #food #foodie #foodlover ♬ original sound – TheRitchieTV
“That is what happens when you pull stickers off one product and put on another,” they wrote.
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