Walmart customers can receive a discount at self-checkout by entering a code seen above the front doors.
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. @iammittalpatel #stitch with @colinjashby Mind-🤯! ♬ original sound - Mittal Patel 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. When you go to Walmart and the doors open, look up. There's a four-digit code. Remember that. Now go inside and do your shopping, but do a self-checkout. Now on that screen, on the top right corner, there's an option for a discount code. Click that and enter the code. 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?' @watchoutttt.kee #stitch with @420loveontour thank me later ♬ original sound - Ke 🧞 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. @metischickk #mythbusted #wonderifitworks Follow up video on the duet I did about a Walmart discount code and self checkout. ♬ Steven Universe - L.Dre 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. @shantellmurphy walmart discount code #fact or cap ♬ original sound - Shantell Murphy 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.
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.
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