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  • 2021-06-16 (xsd:date)
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  • Does This Walmart Self-Checkout Discount Code Really Work? (en)
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  • Since at least 2020, viral videos have claimed that Walmart customers could save money with a hidden set of numbers. TikTok videos claimed that a four-digit code found above the Walmart front entrance doors could be entered as a promo or discount code at self-checkout. What is a fact or statistic that seems fake but is real?, asked TikTok user @colinjashby. His video has been stitched as an introduction to countless subsequent videos that purport to detail interesting facts and statistics. On June 14, 2021, TikTok user @iammittalpatel posted a video with the what is a fact or statistic stitched intro. It has been viewed nearly 6 million times and received 61,000 shares in two days. According to @iammittalpatel and many others on TikTok, everyday, Walmart customers walk right under a four-digit code that would allow them to receive a discount when ringing up items at self-checkout. Months earlier, on Jan. 3, @watchoutttt.kee also made the same claim about a Walmart discount code in another TikTok video. It has received more than 4 million views, and well over 58,000 shares. The video used a different popular stitched intro, that being @420loveontour's trending question: What's a piece of information that you learned that feels illegal to know? However, this was all a hoax. The idea that a four-digit code above Walmart's front doors can be entered as a discount at self-checkout is false. A number of TikTok commenters pointed out that if there was a four-digit number around the entrance, it would simply be a store number. Other TikTok users recorded videos that showed that there is no place to enter a discount code on Walmart's self-checkout screens. For example, at least two helpful TikTok users drove to Walmart stores to try out the supposed trick. Pauline Huppie, aka @metischickk, was unable to find a four-digit code around the front doors. She also noted that there was no option to enter a code on the Walmart self-checkout screen or card scanner. Myth busted, she said. A Walmart employee named Shantell Murphy also tried the trick. So, as you can see, totally fake, she said. In sum, there is no special four-digit code hidden over or around the front doors of Walmart stores that allows customers to receive a discount at self-checkout. If such a trick did exist, there would countless videos showing that it works. Instead, there are none. (en)
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