Texas Man Spots Brand New Blender on Sale for Three Cents at Walmart. Then He Tries To Check Out

Stumbling across a discounted item in a store is hitting the jackpot. How about if it’s a whopping three cents at Walmart? Well, that’s certainly a win…or is it?

“So, Walmart here on La Marque. We’re shopping, we look down over here at this price,” Texas-based TikTok creator Krazee Kajun (@krazeekajun) says. The camera reveals a $0.03 price under a Thyme & Table 57oz Blender Duo display on the shelf, which is $86.97 online.

“It says three cents for this beautiful [expletive] blender, right?” she says.

After wandering the aisle, he spotted another three-cent item: a Beautiful 6 qt Digital Air Fryer, which is $69 on the company’s website. Originally, the content creator says he stopped by the retailer for an air fryer. Sure enough, he found one for an alleged three pennies, and was enticed to snag it.

However, Kajun ran into a problem while attempting to ring it up.

“We take it to self-checkout, some weak [expletive] manager decided, ‘Oh, that’s a display price. We can’t honor that,’” he recalls, fuming.

Needless to say, warns more than 4,1000 viewers to steer clear of this location. “So, if you’re shopping at Walmart in La Marque, they’re pieces of [expletive]. Don’t shop here.”

What Did Viewers Think?

A heated debate engaged in the comments section. Those who sided with the Kajun felt outraged and adamant the manager should’ve sold it to him for that price.

“What do you mean they can’t honor display price? Literally in their policy to honor the display price,” one viewer commented.

“They should have honored the price for you and then changed it if it wasn’t correct,” another added.

On the other hand, some argued because the air fryer was a display product, it wasn’t for sale.

“Notice how the price tag sales display… if you wanna buy the non working display for 3 cents ask for it,” one commenter remarked.

“It’s the price of the [non] working display, and the real price sometimes takes a while to generate,” a second stated.

An alleged Walmart employee entered the chat, elaborating, “As a Walmart worker, I’ve never seen display models priced. They aren’t for sale anyways. Normally, [they end] up being sent away as claims when they are done being displayed. And normally display models are non functional anyways.”

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Does Walmart Have to Honor The Display Price?

Essentially, the critics were correct. A Redditor shared a similar experience in an r/WalmartCustomer subreddit where they also had a manager refuse to sell a penny air fryer but due to a pricing mistake. So, workers jumped in to offer explanations.

For starters, many echoed that display models are stripped of their internal functions, serving only as visual references for customers and not intended for purchase. In other words, it’s a non-functioning, empty device not for sale.

Moreover, one employee cleared the air by explaining the price tag issue. Typically, the company gives its displays a price along with a different SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) code. This is quite normal in retail businesses to assign products a code in order to keep track and manage their inventory, though penny prices are most likely pricing errors. Since these would be considered a significant price glitch, Walmart managers aren’t legally required to honor it, per Justia.

To prevent confusion, displays have an ‘NWD’ or ‘DSP’ in their digital label, which means it’s a non-working device/ display.

The Mary Sue reached out to Kajun via TikTok comment and direct message as well as Walmart via press email.

Update Jul 8, 2026:

During an interview with The Mary Sue, Kajun reconfirms this adventure was because his family needed an air fryer. 

“We stumbled across the air fryer, due to specifically going there to buy one. Not necessarily that one, but definitely needed an air fryer,” he shared via TikTok direct message. 

Although this was the first time he had encountered penny items, he was aware of them. 

“This has never happened before to me. I have seen the penny tags videos from Home Depot, so I knew that it was a ‘thing,’” he said. 

Despite not being able to buy the air fryer for three cents, the content creator did end up scoring a discount. 

“We did end up buying it for 10% off. [The manager] said he wasn’t going to do 3 pennies, but gave us the discount,” Kajun explained. “So the $80 fryer, ended up being $59.99.”

Since the incident, he hasn’t returned to that location for more reasons than one. 

“I’ve not been back to that Walmart,” he said. “Typically, we don’t go to that one due to the criminal activity and bad part of town aspect of it.”

Overall, Kajun was adamant there weren’t tags for functioning products. Therefore, the content creator believed the three penny tags were correct.  

“A lot of comments were telling me it’s the ‘display price.’ I understand that, but there was zero markings or indications of the real working appliances at their actual price,” he elaborated. “The only tag we saw was the ones in the video. It wasn’t until we got to the self-checkout that we noticed the real price. We weren’t going there looking for this drama, but when I saw a 3-cent item, I definitely wanted to enjoy the mistake by Walmart.” 

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