A Walmart employee’s TikTok recounting a customer’s insistence that a Bluey play set should cost $7.98 because it sat near a Nerf gun price tag has gone viral, amassing over 828,000 views. The video, posted by user @skylouieeeee, highlights a common retail frustration: customers conflating proximity with pricing.
The Interaction Begins
The TikTok opens with the employee’s blunt assessment of the encounter. “Walmart has to be the only place where these people are literally grown a– adults, and yet they don’t have a lick of common sense.” He explains a woman approached him with a Bluey play set found in a random aisle without a price tag. After checking the box for clearance or markdown stickers and finding none, he informed her the toy was likely at regular price.
The Price Dispute Escalates
The customer insisted he accompany her to the location where she found the item. “The price is way off from where I saw it.” She led him to the Nerf gun aisle, explaining that’s where the Bluey set was sitting.
The employee recounts her claim and his response: “She said that she saw it sitting next to a price tag that said it was $7.98, and I told her, no, it’s the right price. If anything, it says it’s for a completely different toy.”
He clarifies the tag was for a toy gun. “This is for like a toy gun, and she was like, but it was sitting right here by the price tag.” The customer pressed further: “Are you sure that’s not the right price? Because this could be the price for the Bluey set.”
Employee Explains Merchandising Reality
The worker pointed out the obvious merchandising error. “The aisle you found this toy in is not even the right aisle for it — it’s two aisles down.” The customer’s logic held firm: “Then why would they put it here if that’s not the right price? It was sitting right here the whole time.”
He tried to reason with her: “Ma’am, that doesn’t mean that that’s the price of the toy.” Adding that a shopper likely abandoned it there, he said: “Probably somebody left it there cause they didn’t want the toy no more. And she was like, okay, then why would they put it exactly right near the price tag if that’s not the price.”
The video ends with his exasperated summary: “I’m like, I don’t know, but that is not the correct price for the damn Bluey set.”
Social Media Reaction
Commenters shared related retail experiences and practical advice. One user noted: “In the Walmart app, you can scan it yourself to see the price.” Another highlighted a ubiquitous checkout joke: “As A Cashier [sic] The Amount Of “Guess Its Free” Jokes Is Unreal…” A third observer summarized the phenomenon: “it’s like they walk in and all common sense disappears.”
Verification Note
The Daily Dot was unable to independently verify the events described in this video. The details above reflect the account as shared on TikTok by @skylouieeeee.
