Walmart worker says shopper came in to buy a TV. Then he tries to take it home: ‘Common sense isn’t so common’
A Walmart worker sees a man dragging a large TV towards checkout. The customer waves him down and asks if workers can help him get the TV home, but won’t accept their answer.
In a video with over 38,000 views, TikToker Skylouieeeee (@skylouieeeee) sits in his car wearing a blue Walmart vest.
“Every time these customers have a problem, they’d rather make things way more difficult than just solving the problem,” he laments.
He says a Walmart customer asked him for help “carrying out” the TV in his basket. The TikToker explained to him that they could help him load it into his car after he finished checking out. Then, the man made an unreasonable request.
“Are y’all able to help me drop off the TV to my house?” the man asks. The Walmart worker explains that workers can’t leave the store. Deliveries are made by a separate service, which may take several days.
“He was like, ‘The size doesn’t even fit in the backseat of my car even if I put the seats down,'” he continues. “You’re just going to have to order it off the app.”
The worker says the man started to get angry because he didn’t want to use the app. He continued to push back, explaining that without a way to get the TV home himself, the man would have no other choice but to order the TV for delivery through the app.
How do Walmart customers get TVs home?
On the r/Walmart subreddit, other workers suggest that the TikToker’s story is an all-too-common occurrence at their locations, too. They share how customers try to get around getting a massive purchases home if it doesn’t fit in their cars.
One posts a picture of a TV strapped to the exterior passenger’s side of a small sedan.
Another writes, “Family of 4 brings 4 door early 2000s model sedan 45 minutes from home, bypassing a closer store, to purchase a Swimming pool. Full size. Box, of course, will not fit even a little way into the trunk. While my TL and I are trying one of the kids pipes up with ‘We should have brought the Van.”
“At my store one Black Friday they had the tv in the car and forced grandma and the kids to walk behind the car with the 4 ways flashing,” a third shares. “Never mind this was during a colder than normal November in Wisconsin.”
Viewers react to the customer’s demand
In the comments of the viral TikTok, viewers blast the customer for lacking “common sense.”
“Unfortunately sometimes common sense isn’t so common,” one viewer remarks.
“I swear they think that delivery drivers just spawn in the store when they order something lmao,” a second jokes.
Another says, “Your energy is 1000% valid… Ppl PMO SO BAD.”
However, others defend the irritated shopper.
@skylouieeeee How else he gonna get if he don’t order online #fyp #walmart #storytime #retail #retailworker ♬ original sound – skylouieeeee
“I meannnn SOME places have a delivery service available at check out so I get the confusion, I hate buying [expletive] off the app sometimes and coming in to return something only for Walmart not take the return,” a viewer writes.
The Mary Sue reached out to Skylouieeeee via TikTok direct message and comment and to Walmart via media contact form.
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