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Fred Onyango

Georgia man weighs chicken on Walmart’s own scale and finds nearly a quarter-pound were underweight. Staff tell him to stop: ‘I was asked to leave’

A viral TikTok post has resurrected the intense scrutiny surrounding packaging and weighing practices by large retailers like Walmart. Georgia native James Wrigg posted a video that he says proves Walmart was shortweighting its customers, claiming that up to 50% of the chicken breasts he checked were underweight.

Wrigg was conducting a consumer investigation by personally placing the packages on a weighing scale inside Walmart. The video appeared to show that his claims of the chicken being lighter than the weight listed on the package were accurate.

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