Is Walmart overcharging customers for meat? One man certainly thinks so—and he’s got receipts.
Across several videos, TikTok user Jimmy Wrigg (@james_wrigg) shows how Walmart is, by his estimation, inflating the weight and price of its meat products—something Walmart has been accused of in the past.
In one video, he shows raw chicken that says it weighs 4.66 pounds. After bringing it to a nearby scale, Wrigg finds that the true weight is 2.37 pounds.
Following up this video, Wrigg picks up a cut of Kentucky Legend Brown Sugar ham. While the label says it’s 5.34 pounds, the scale puts it at just 2.24 pounds.
While these videos gained some traction on the platform, it was Wrigg’s third video on the subject that really got the internet talking.
What’s Wrong With These Weights?
In this video, which currently has over 6.4 million views, Wrigg looks over the refrigerated section with Kentucky Legend ham. After just a few seconds, he’s able to identify several hams that have significantly incorrect weights listed.
Bringing them all to the scale, Wrigg first demonstrates the scale’s accuracy by placing a 2-pound weight on it. Then, he weighs the hams. Consistently, each ham is around 3.1 pounds lighter than it claims to be on the package.
In a later video, Wrigg voices his concerns to an employee. The employee then verifies that the meats were incorrectly weighed.
Is This Legal?
It is illegal for a store to sell products with inaccurate weights.
In food labeling, some allowances are made for small variations in weight. For example, a package marked at 200 grams that actually weighs 203 grams would likely still be in compliance with American labeling standards.
However, substantial weight differences are typically seen as deceptive and inaccurate and are therefore illegal.
In this case, a difference of several pounds would be significant enough to be a violation. If you believe a store is incorrectly listing weights, you can report it to the appropriate Office of Weights and Measures. One may also consider contacting their state attorney general or other relevant agencies.
Management Responds
Returning to the video, Wrigg then speaks to a manager. The manager appears similarly shocked by the weight disparity—though he says it’s not the store’s fault.
“We don’t even weigh anything,” the manager says. Reddit discussions on the topic reiterate the claim that Walmart locations receive their products with the weight already listed.
The manager then says that the store does not have a means of reweighing the items. As such, he says he will have to “claims it out.” This means removing the item from inventory so that it cannot be sold and marking it as a loss. In the case of this Walmart, the manager says that the items will be donated to a food bank.
When questioned about how the store will prevent this from happening in the future, the manager says he will escalate the issue. Wrigg appears unsatisfied by the entire interaction.
“I don’t feel very confident, do you?” he says in his video. He claims the manager “basically kind of shrugged it off,” and when Wrigg offered to check other weights in the store, the manager “rolled his eyes.”
Wasn’t Walmart Recently Sued About This?
As Wrigg mentions several times in his video, Walmart recently settled a class-action lawsuit in which it was alleged that the chain “falsely inflates the product weight” on weighed goods and “mislabels the weight of bagged product.”
In April 2024, Walmart agreed to a $45 million settlement. Walmart admitted no wrongdoing and, in a statement, said that they “still deny the allegations.”
Then, in 2025, Walmart settled another lawsuit about weight discrepancies. In this case, it was alleged that the chain overcharged customers by again listing incorrect weights. Settlement payments amounted to $5.6 million.
Wrigg Says It’s Gone Too Far
In a TikTok DM exchange, Wrigg told BroBible neither Walmart nor Kentucky Legend has reached out to him about his videos. In the meantime, he has reached out to reached out to the Georgia Department of Agriculture Weights & Measures.
“I want is an explanation on why [there] were not better controls in the grocery department,” he said. “I have three videos and three different Walmarts with three different meats and three different brands; I found all of it in under seven minutes in each store. They seem to have no care to be surveying and checking their prices, whether they’re marking them or not.”
He further expressed a desire for procedures to be put in place to prevent this from happening. Wrigg added that, in his view, these procedures should have been added after the $45 million settlement.
“It seems as if they put class-action lawsuit money into the budget plan for the next time it comes up,” he states. “These fines are so low. It doesn’t do anything for them to produce change.”
For Wrigg, this issue transcends political party. As he continues his work, he hopes that people can “put aside their political differences, and united on this topic of fraud and corruption.”
“I plan to see this to the end,” he detailed. “I feel that this is a standard operating business procedure in this country now, with a lot of corporate institutions. People are tired of it!
@james_wrigg Found a couple hundred dollars over priced meat in 60 seconds. #walmart #walmartscam #walmartfraud #fingeronthescale #overpricing
Commenters Are Shocked
In the comments section, users were taken aback by just how big of a discrepancy there was between the listed and true weight.
“Each piece is off by 3.09 and 3.10 lbs. Altogether the ones you weighed totaled 21.67lbs extra x $4.98/lbs = $107.92,” said a user. “Ridiculous!”
“Sounds like a lawsuit to me,” stated another.
“This taught me to not buy meat with my delivery orders. I’ll be going to the meat market instead,” shared a third.
BroBible reached out to Walmart via media relations contact form and to Kentucky Legend via website contact form.