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On 22 July 2017, a Facebook user claimed (in a since-deleted post) that Walmart had added a phantom charge of $10 to her bill for a item she hadn't purchased, which was listed as a JAJKET on her receipt. She posted the claim alongside a photograph of a receipt with the questionable entry on it: On 25 July 2017, the original poster claimed that Facebook had deleted her post, and an alarmist blog concurrently published an item advising shoppers to call the police if a JAJKET code appeared on their Walmart receipts. When we contacted Walmart about the claim, a representative confirmed that the issue was under investigation and told us that the chain would provide us with an update when their research concluded. The next day, a Walmart representative contacted us to explain that errant charge was a one-time mistake resulting from a bar code (also known as an SKU, or stock keeping unit) that had been misentered by hand by a cashier: Although the pictured Walmart receipt is real, rumors that the retailer has been adding phantom charges to random receipts for years are not. The error was unique to one transaction, and we found no other reports of similar issues on social media, on Walmart's online pages, or anywhere else.
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