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Walmart shopper stunned after being hit with $25.68 receipt charge: 'Pay attention!'
A Walmart shopper was left stunned after being charged $23.99 for an item she did not purchase.
Meegan Simon Diaville said the incident occurred during her weekly shop at a Walmart supercenter in Marksville, Los Angeles.
Diaville assiduously checked her receipt in the car only to find that she had been charged $23.99 for an 'emoji sheet' which she had not added to her cart.
The disgruntled shopper complained to the store's service counter about the overcharge only to be told 'these machines do crazy things.'
The Walmart employee said the till likely double-charged her for the last item scanned.
However, Diaville pointed out that the previous item, a pack of meat, was only $4.28.
She also noted that the mystery sheet's item number did not even 'come up in the system.'
'Pay attention to your Walmart receipts!' Diaville warned others in a Facebook post.
'Thank goodness I'm observant and noticed a $23.99 charge that I knew I didn't pick up anything for that price,' Diaville wrote of her experience.
She says she was refunded $25.68, the cost of the item and tax.
Diaville was not alone in finding mysterious items and overcharges on her Walmart receipt.
'I found stuff like that often on my receipts, so now I only self-check and watch the screen to see what rings up as I scan,' one fed up consumer replied.
'Happened to me at dollar store by Walmart!' another added.
'I addressed it fast, only like a little over five dollars but got my money back. Check receipts.'
Last March Walmart suffered a technical fault that prevented price data flowing to self-checkout kiosks in 1,600 stores across the US.
The glitch resulted in customers being overcharged for thousands of everyday items.
Meegan Simon Diaville (left) was stunned to find the mystery charge on her receipt
Walmart has seen no end of issues stemming from its self checkout machines
In a statement at the time Walmart said it 'made it a priority to refund customers who were overcharged.'
One Walmart shopper was recently left so incensed by mistakes at a self-checkout machine that he called the police claiming he had 'been robbed.'
Walmart has seen no end of issues stemming from its self checkout machines from crafty theft to card skimming scams.
The retailer has begun pulling the machines from many of its stores as a result.
The grocery giant also hopes a return to the traditional checkout system will improve the 'in-store experience' for customers.
