‘Walmart doing us dirty’: Texas man goes to Walmart for extension cord. Then he finds one on clearance—and rolls back the price
A clearance label might make you think you’re getting a good deal. However, one Texas Walmart customer decides to peel back the sale label, discovering that clearance doesn’t mean the price always goes down.
In a video with over 15,000 views, TikToker RipperSG (@austin_adams214) shows an extension cord on a shelf at Walmart. A clearance sticker lists the price as $16.48.
“We be getting scammed,” he says, pulling the tag back to show the original price: $15.88.
He finds another clearance extension cord listed as $23.97 on clearance, with a hidden original label listing it as $22.97.
“We’re getting robbed blind,” he remarks. “Every single one of these that’s on clearance, doesn’t matter what it is, it’s all rigged.”
Does Walmart sell clearance for more than original price?
Other Walmart customers notice that the retailer’s clearance prices don’t always offer a heavy discount. One shopper on the r/YouShouldKnow subreddit points out that Walmart clearance tags don’t have an original price on them. So, you don’t really know how much you’re saving.
“This is often to make a person believe the price is reduced but in fact they just want to sell them faster without reducing first,” they suggest.
Several Walmart workers commented on the Reddit post to claim that clearance doesn’t always mean a markdown.
“Yep. I work at a Walmart. If the yellow sticker doesn’t have a ‘Was’ price on it, then it hasn’t been marked down,” one Walmart worker suggests. “Usually our ‘clearance’ sections are just stuff that we don’t carry anymore that management is too cheap to actually give a proper markdown.”
Another shares, “My store has had a bunch of Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart lighters…One of the managers told a worker to print them clearance labels to help get them out the door. No price change made.”
Was it actually a misprint?
However, other workers in the comments of the viral TikTok suggest that the clearance label was simply a misprint.
“As someone who worked at Walmart for 6 years it’s the wrong labels. The prices went up not clearance,” a viewer writes.
“And this is why we went to digital tags. Because people seem confused by the wrong labels lol,” a second says. They point out that many Walmart stores have adopted dynamic pricing, which uses digital tags to swap out prices more easily.
A third adds, “Clearance ends in 0, they ran out of tables or just used the wrong ones. don’t worry, you’ll get the digital pricing like we have soon enough.”
One even suggests that shoppers won’t be able to find the original labels behind the clearance tags at other locations. They say, “It’s not clearance. Just wrong labels. They’re not even supposed to leave the old label in there regardless.”
@austin_adams214 Walmart doing us dirty #scammed #walmart #fyp #foryoupage #walmartclearance ♬ original sound – RipperSG
The Mary Sue reached out to RipperSG via TikTok direct message and comment and to Walmart via media contact form for further comment.
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