‘Lazy’: Walmart shopper catches delivery workers in a lie. Here’s what she found when she entered the store
Ordering items for delivery or curbside pickup is supposed to be a convenience, but it can be frustrating when you get a message that your items are out of stock so you have to go in-store, potentially to a further location, to get the products you need. That’s what happened to a Walmart shopper who says she caught the pickup worker in a lie.
In a viral video, Casey Hudson (@caseycakesssss) says, “The people who do your shopping for you at Walmart when you do curbside order pickup lie sometimes.”
She explains that she placed a pickup order for a rug and some bird food that was canceled because the items were supposedly out of stock.
“I just parked my car, went in, and I found the bird food and the rug,” she says while holding the items in her hand in the store’s garden section.
She concludes her video by asserting that curbside workers are “lazy.”
‘They are the lazy ones huh?’
In the comments section, some viewers called Hudson lazy for ordering curbside pickup rather than going into the store herself. Others offered explanations as to why the items were listed as out of stock when they were, in fact, in the store.
User Mephisto reasoned, “Often times the location on the app isn’t where the item is actually located, leading them to believe it’s out of stock. Also human error plays a factor. These people are under time constraints that you’re not, also.”
“Sometimes the item is stocked after they shop the area, and they’re doing a bunch of orders a day so they don’t have time to go look in the back room for stuff,” user Brittnie Lightner said.
A viewer named Kenton wrote, “No. You are wrong. There are many reasons that happens. Walmarts on hand inventory is notoriously off. Their system will show an out of stock but the product is in the store. It’s not in the physical on hand system. Why are you so mean?”
Hudson said that despite calling the workers expletives, she’s not actually mean; she was just frustrated in the moment but she laughed about the situation later.
Do Walmart pickers lie about items being out of stock?
Walmart shoppers and workers alike have previously called out pickers for marking an item as out of stock when it’s available in-store. A TikToker and Walmart worker named Mily showed on her Zebra scanner that many items that pickers had listed as out of stock were actually available—just on the bottom shelves. She says she does “exceptions” (items that pickers can’t find) like that “everyday.”
Another TikToker and Walmart exceptions clerk, Tio Choco, similarly called out pickers for marking items as out of stock when they simply didn’t put in the effort to look.
@caseycakesssss Their not pieces of shit lol you gotta know Me to know my humor but don’t lie it’s not cool lol #walmartcurbsidepickup #walmart #imjustagirlintheworld ♬ original sound – Casey Hudson
However, in pickers’ defense, the Daily Dot notes that “oftentimes there are discrepancies in the inventory amounts listed on the back end versus what’s actually in store.” So, an item may appear in-stock on a worker’s Zebra tablet while actually being unavailable.
The Mary Sue reached out to Hudson via TikTok direct message and comment. It reached out to Walmart via media contact form.
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