A routine stop at the meat counter turned into a pricing mystery after one Kroger shopper decided to do the math himself. The customer, who posts on TikTok as theritchietv, was browsing marked-down ground beef when a yellow clearance sticker caught his eye.
Filming as he walked through the aisle, he said, “This makes no sense to me at all” before laying out the numbers that had caught his attention. The sticker read $3.60 for the package, with a per-pound price of $1.80 listed underneath it. By his math, $1.80 a pound multiplied by two comes to $3.60, meaning the package in his hand ought to weigh close to two pounds.
He carried the first package to a scale near the meat case, zeroed it out on camera, and set the package down. The reading came in under a pound. Skeptical of the first result, he moved to a second scale elsewhere in the store, saying he didn’t want to be near other shoppers, and repeated the test with a second package.
It didn’t. Not according to the store’s own scale.
That one came in under a pound too. Ritchie then put both packages on the scale together and pointed out that their combined weight still didn’t reach two pounds. The same kind of scale test was done by other shoppers questioning whether packaged meat weighed what its labels claimed. “It doesn’t even hit two pounds,” he said. “It doesn’t hit a pound.”
By the end of the clip, Ritchie’s confusion had turned to accusation. “That, that’s a scam,” he said, before suggesting the store could be running afoul of scale regulations. “Pretty sure that’s like super illegal too,” he said, adding that “there’s like a business out there that’s like the weight and scale guidelines.”
The video has drawn plenty of reactions, with viewers weighing in on the numbers for themselves. The confusion was shared by others watching too. “3.60 isn’t even the original price, that is the reduced price,” one person wrote, pointing out that the package had already been marked down.
Others were less interested in the arithmetic and more interested in what to do about it. “Go to the meat department and tell them they weighed it wrong and make them fix it,” read one reply. Shoppers have taken a similar approach when questioning whether a product actually contained the amount listed on its label, from ground beef to bags of produce that appeared to come up short.
Further down the thread, the frustration took on a sharper edge. “Remember Inflation ? . Remember Shrink-flation ? . Now we have reached Theft-flation,” one comment read, picking up thousands of likes of its own.
As of now, Kroger doesn’t appear to have responded to the video, leaving the apparent mismatch between the price and weight unanswered.
Published: Aug 25, 2026 02:48 pm