A Kansas shopper went to a Walmart canned food aisle with a simple plan. She wanted to know if the $1 sale sign over a Chef Boyardee lasagna display would match what the register charged. Amanda, who posts on TikTok as Queen Abomb under @amandabainum457, filmed the whole test.
The clip opens on the display. A rollback sign hangs above the cans with a $1 price, and a smaller line lists the old price as $1.34. Amanda points at it. “Look, it says one dollar,” she says. She adds that she plans to buy some and “we’re gonna see what it rings up as.”
She then walks to a self-checkout lane and scans one can. The screen shows $1.44. That is 44 cents above the sale price and 10 cents above the previous $1.34 price. Walmart shoppers have filmed price shifts at the store before, but this one also rings up higher than the previous price.
An employee stepped in
Amanda then appears to show the screen to a store employee. Near the end, she says, “Young lady was kind enough to override it to a dollar.” The employee appears to have overridden the price to $1. “But you saw what it rung up at,” she adds.
A caption on the video reads “Walmart is screwing people!!” That is Amanda’s own view. The footage does not show why the mismatch happened or whether it was intentional. It shows a sign, a scan, and a fix.
Walmart has addressed similar price differences before. In a statement to 6abc, the company said that when shelf and checkout prices differ, “the lower price is the price the customer receives.” That is what happened with Amanda’s can in the video. The video includes no response from Walmart, and it does not name the store.
People in the comments mostly focused on what shoppers should do when this happens. One commenter who says they work at Walmart wrote, “Walmart worker here…Just tell them..they will correct it ..geezzz.” That is also what happened in Amanda’s video.
Another commenter pushed for a formal complaint. “People that experience this should be filing with the state attorney General for Deceptive Trade Act,” they wrote.
A third commenter took aim at the work self-checkout puts on shoppers. “I DONT WANT TO BABYSIT A STORE PRICING WHILE DOING ALL MY OWN WORK CHECKING N BACKING THE STUFF IM BUYING,” the commenter wrote. That kind of price checking has paid off for other Walmart shoppers, too. One woman found a pair of pants marked at $9.98 but watched them ring up for just $1.
Only one can was scanned on camera. It is not clear if the rest of the display would have rung up the same way. For now, the clip shows a $1 sign, a $1.44 charge and a $1 final price.
Published: Oct 6, 2026 02:42 pm