Walmart's bizarre anti-theft meat packaging leaves visitors 'stunned'
A visitor filmed their recent experience at an unspecified
Walmart store in the U.S.
as they found themselves
utterly shocked at finding
meat products laying underneath metal wires.
The TikTok showed that each meat package was locked with a clasp that only a store employee can unlock, in addition to the metal wiring around it. Like a clothing store, the security
lock triggers alarms
at the exit.
This video is just the latest in a pattern, as
consumers have been pointing out
Walmart's
increasingly ridiculous
, and creative, ways of 'reducing theft' for about four years. The Covid pandemic marked a
change in the way many retailers
do business, and the country's biggest stores found themselves coming up with diverse ways of stopping steaks from being stolen.
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TikTok has a variety of hashtags, including #meatsecurity and
#walmartmeatsecurity
that show poultry in wire mesh bags, tbones in
plastic see-through cases
(like the kind electronics and other expensive items would be in), wire meshing covering the entire counter, security tags, and cabinets that require an employee with a key. All of these have left behind an annoyed and baffled public.
One commenter wrote, "What happened to America? I'm a Canadian and I still don't lock my door. Nobody steals nothing. I think you guys have lost your way." Another suggests, "They need to lower the price and we won't steal."
Another shocked consumer with a South African flag questions, "What's happening in the land of the free?"
A still from a TikTok video that shows Walmart meat behind metal as protection from thieves
(Image: TikTok)
One person points out, 'If I see this? I am not only in the wrong store! But the wrong neighborhood." One more TikTok user points out, "Lovely, instead of making food affordable, they make it imprisoned. WTF, but the billionaires are happy, the rest is irrelevant."
Of course, Walmart isn't the only company to take strange measures against shoplifters, as Target, Walgreens, Rite Aid, and many other national chains have said that shoplifting has been on the rise.
Someone points out the security tag on Walmart meat
(Image: oakwood19136/TikTok)
In 2024,
Walmart CEO
Doug McMillon said in an interview to CNBC that, "theft is an issue. It's higher than what it has historically been," and warned that "prices will be higher, and/or stores will close" if local locations can't get shoplifting under control.
According to National Incident-Based Reporting System data, the shoplifting rate was 93% higher in 2023 than in 2019, rising from 159.3 per 100,000 population in 2019 to 308.8 in 2023.
Some of the most targeted categories include the health and beauty aisle, apparel, eyewear, footwear, electronics, groceries, office supplies, and infant care and toys, according to a report from Forbes.com.
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