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Priced for 4.66 lb of chicken. Half the tray was empty.
Walmart chicken tenderloins: 4.66 lb labeled, 2.37 lb actual. Is that legal?
This is the one that made people stop scrolling. The sticker on a Walmart chicken tenderloin tray reads 4.66 lb. That's what the shopper paid for. On camera, @james_wrigg peels back the film, sets the tray on a kitchen scale, and reads it out: 2.37 lb. Less than half. AOL and other outlets picked up the clip as part of a wider pattern the creator documented across Walmart's meat department, which he said was overpricing items by an average of about $15 each.
Walmart chicken tenderloins, USDA-sealed tray, 4.66 lb labeled
Labeled
4.66 lb
Actual
2.37 lb
Short by
2.29 lb
Legal Limit
0.0938 lb
Short by 2.290 lb, which exceeds the legal tolerance of 0.0938 lb for this quantity.
This is computed against NIST Handbook 133, Table 2-9 (the USDA meat/poultry tolerance table), the same public standard every state weights & measures agency uses. See how we source this data.
This specific gap (paying for nearly double the actual product) is far outside anything NIST's tolerance tables allow at any package size. It isn't a close call. It's also the kind of claim behind Walmart's separate $45 million nationwide class-action settlement over sold-by-weight items (see Data Sources), which Walmart settled without admitting wrongdoing. A single video isn't a court finding; if you see something like this on your own receipt, weighing the actual product yourself is the way to know for sure.
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