A Walmart employee says a customer repeatedly challenged the price of a $149 dresser after finding it beside a $75 clearance sign.
The employee, identified on TikTok as @skylouieeeee, described the encounter in a storytime video. According to the creator, the customer asked for help after finding a boxed dresser without a visible price tag.
@skylouieeeee The pricetag was not up there for that damn dresser #fyp #walmart #storytime #retail #retailworker ♬ original sound – skylouieeeee
Customer questioned Walmart dresser price after two scans
The employee said they used a work phone to scan the dresser’s barcode. The scan showed a price of $149, but the customer immediately questioned whether the result was correct. The employee then showed the customer the scanned price.
The customer reportedly maintained that the dresser should cost $75 because he had found it near a $75 clearance sign. The employee asked him to show where he had found the item, and they returned to the aisle together.
According to the creator, the dresser was positioned beside the $75 sign, but the sign applied to a different product farther down the aisle. The employee explained the distinction, yet the customer continued arguing that the dresser should receive the lower price.
The employee said the customer asked for the dresser to be scanned again. The second scan also showed $149. The customer then questioned whether the employee had scanned the correct product, asking about the dresser’s name and color.
The creator said the exchange became frustrating because they had scanned the barcode directly from the dresser’s box.
The employee said the barcode on the box matched the $149 price, which settled the matter from their perspective. The video prompted reactions from other retail workers and viewers who said they had experienced similar disputes. Several commenters suggested that the customer may have hoped persistence would lead to a discount.
“He put it there and tried to get a discount lol,” one commenter wrote.
Another commenter agreed with that interpretation. “He knew, 100%, he was just hoping yall would be annoyed enough,” they wrote.
They added that the customer may have wanted the employee to give in and honor the $75 price. Another viewer offered a different explanation:
“People just can’t fathom that other ppl might have moved the item,” they wrote. “It’s not in the place it’s supposed to be.”
Another commenter distinguished between genuine pricing errors and merchandise placed beside the wrong sign. They said an honor system might apply when a sale tag has expired.
However, the commenter argued that employees should not automatically honor a sign that applies to another product. One Walmart employee said the situation felt familiar: “As a Walmart employee this is what I deal with everyday,” they wrote.
The commenters’ reactions reflect their own interpretations and do not establish what the customer intended. Several said they had dealt with similar incidents while working in retail.
The TikTok video presents only the creator’s account of the interaction. It does not independently establish whether the customer moved the dresser or why it was beside the clearance sign.
The Daily Dot could not independently verify the customer’s account or the circumstances surrounding the sign. The story is based on the creator’s description of the encounter and reactions posted by viewers online.
