A Walmart shopper has caused a stir online after revealing the secret trick short shoppers can use at the supermarket.
Crissy Charles shared a little-known hack for vertically challenged people with her followers TikTok earlier this week.
“Okay, short friends: I’m going to show you a trick that I’ve been the gatekeeper,” Charles says in the video recorded at her local Walmart.
The mother of four turns the video to the end of the store aisle, revealing a wire hook attached to a shelf magnet.
“So at the end of every aisle, Walmart has these little things, see that hook there?” she explains.
Crissy Charles shared a hack for short shoppers on her TikTok account
Customers at Walmart can use the metal hook to grab items on high shelves
The mother of four revealed a wire hook attached to a magnet on the end of the Walmart shelves
Charles then uses the hook device to pull a package of oatmeal from a high shelf in the aisle.
“Look,” she says triumphantly as the oatmeal becomes immediately accessible to her without much fuss.
“There’s your little victory for today, my little friends,” she adds, smiling.
‘No way!!! I’m getting tired of climbing the shelves!’ one user joked in the comments.
“I need to check my Walmart. I usually get a broom from the housewares section and use it to clean up stuff,” wrote another.
“I am 6 feet tall and have relied on the kindness of strangers to help me for more than 50 years. This is the best thing I ever learned on TikTok,” a third added gratefully.
The unreachable height of some Walmart shelves has long been a problem for frequent shoppers at the retail giant.
“I’m 6 feet tall and sometimes I even have trouble reaching something on the top shelf if it’s at the back,” says one customer complained on Reddit.
“People who are small, old or disabled have no chance of reaching the top shelf, and if there is no one to help them, they simply have to do without,” they explained.
“I’ve seen employees and customers climb the shelves to get something to the top, which is obviously against the rules and not safe.”
Another user agreed, adding in the thread, “I’m a 6 foot woman. I know they want as much shelf space as possible. But they’re too long.’
Meanwhile, Walmart was also in the news recently when a customer posted a viral video of herself shoplifting at a self-checkout.
She is caught by a worker and given a two-year ban from Walmart stores. She may also face police action.
Charles showed how easy it is to use the hook by grabbing an oatmeal packet from a high shelf
The woman, whose name is Nesha on TikTok, posted a video of himself on the platform and pretends to scan items at a self-checkout.
She demonstrated the ‘fake scan’ tactic shoplifters use at self-checkouts.
The thieves scan some items but not others, hoping the staff won’t notice. If they get caught, they pretend it was an accident.
But Nesha immediately gets karma after she tries to steal a backpack – unaware of the new technology Walmart has to catch crooks like her.