A Walmart shopper has caused a stir online after revealing the secret trick short shoppers can use in the supermarket.
Crissy Charles shared a little-known trick for the vertically challenged with her followers on TikTok earlier this week.
“Okay, short friends: I’m going to show you a little trick I’ve been keeping an eye on,” Charles says in the video taken at his local Walmart.
The mother of four turns the video to the end of the shopping aisle and reveals a wire hanger attached to a magnet on the shelf.
‘So at the end of every aisle, Walmart has these little things, see the little hook there?’ she explains.
Crissy Charles shared a trick for short shoppers on her TikTok account
Walmart customers can use the metal hook to grab items on high shelves
The mother of four revealed a wire hook attached to a magnet at the end of Walmart shelves.
Charles then uses the hook device to pull a package of oatmeal from a high shelf in the hallway.
“Look at that,” she says triumphantly as the oatmeal becomes immediately accessible to her without any problem.
“There you have your little victory of the day, my little friends,” he adds with a smile.
‘By no means!!! I get tired of climbing on shelves!’ One user joked in the comments.
‘I need to check my Walmart. I usually bought a broom from the home goods section and used it to pick up things,” wrote another.
‘I’m 5’ tall and have spent over 50 years relying on the kindness of strangers to help me. “This is the best thing I have learned on TikTok,” a third gratefully added.
The unattainable heights of some of Walmart’s shelves have long been a complaint for frequent shoppers of the retail giant.
“I’m 5’11 and sometimes I even have a hard time reaching something on the top shelf if it’s towards the back,” one shopper complained on Reddit.
“Short, elderly or disabled people have no chance of reaching the top shelf and, if there is no one around to help them, they have to be left with nothing,” they explained.
“I’ve seen employees and customers climb up shelves to put something on top, which is obviously against the rules and not safe.”
Another user agreed, adding in the thread: ‘I’m a 5’4 woman. I know you want to have as much shelf space as possible. But they are too high.
Meanwhile, Walmart was also in the news recently when a shopper posted a viral video of herself shoplifting at a self-checkout.
A worker catches her and bans her from entering Walmart stores for two years. You could also face police action.
Charles showed how easy it is to use the hook by removing a package of oats from a high shelf.
The woman, who goes by Nesha on TikTok, she posted a video of herself on the platform simulating scanning items at a self-checkout.
She demonstrated the “fake scanning” tactic used by thieves at self-checkout registers.
Thieves scan some items but not others, hoping staff won’t notice. If they get caught, they pretend it was an accident.
But Nesha gets instant karma after trying to steal a backpack, unaware of the new technology Walmart has to catch criminals like her.