Viral TikToker Jimmy Wrigg recently exposed massive weight discrepancies on meat products at Walmart locations, as reported by BroBible, and the bizarre defense offered by one manager will leave you scratching your head. Wrigg has been posting videos showing how the retail giant seems to be inflating the weight and, consequently, the price of various meat products, something the company has been accused of multiple times before, besides the condition in which they store meat.
Wrigg’s first videos immediately demonstrated how serious this issue is. In one clip, he showed a package of raw chicken labeled at 4.66 pounds. When he placed it on a nearby scale, the true weight came out to a shocking 2.37 pounds! Following that up, Wrigg found a cut of Kentucky Legend Brown Sugar ham that claimed to be 5.34 pounds, but the scale registered it at just 2.24 pounds.
Wrigg’s most popular video on the subject, which has racked up over 6.4 million views, shows him quickly identifying multiple mislabeled Kentucky Legend hams in the refrigerated section. He even verified the accuracy of the scale first by testing a 2-pound weight before showing that every single ham he checked was consistently around 3.1 pounds lighter than the price tag claimed.
This isn’t just a small labeling error; this is several pounds of inflation, and it means consumers are getting seriously ripped off
When Wrigg brought these major concerns to an employee, the worker verified that the meats were indeed incorrectly weighed. The real shocker came when Wrigg spoke to a manager about the rampant issue. The manager seemed surprised by the disparity but immediately tried to shift the blame away from the store itself. He claimed the store doesn’t even weigh anything.
Discussions on social media seem to confirm this, suggesting that Walmart locations receive their products pre-packaged with the weight already listed by the supplier. The manager then stated the store doesn’t have the means to reweigh the items. His solution? He’d have to “claims it out,” meaning the items would be removed from inventory as a loss and donated to a local food bank. When pressed on how the store would prevent this fraud from repeating, the manager said he would escalate the issue.
Wrigg, understandably, wasn’t satisfied with this outcome. He felt the manager “kind of shrugged it off.” When Wrigg offered to help check other weights in the store to expose more potential fraud, the manager reportedly rolled his eyes. “I don’t feel very confident, do you?” Wrigg asked viewers in his video, expressing serious disappointment with the corporate response.
It’s even more concerning when you consider Walmart’s recent history with this exact problem. The company recently settled a class-action lawsuit alleging that they “falsely inflates the product weight” on weighed goods. In April 2024, Walmart agreed to a massive $45 million settlement, though they continued to deny the allegations. Then, in 2025, the company settled another lawsuit over incorrect weights for $5.6 million.
Wrigg believes the issue has gone too far. He’s reached out to the Georgia Department of Agriculture Weights & Measures because he wants an official explanation on why there aren’t better quality controls in place. He noted that he found substantial issues across three different stores, three different meats, and three different brands, all in under seven minutes at each location. After all, Walmart is no stranger to shrinkflation, but they need to be held accountable for consumer fraud.
Published: Jan 28, 2026 02:00 pm