For the last few days I’ve had several of these videos pop up in my YouTube feed. For several months this guy has been going into Walmart stores, Krogers and a few others, weighing meats and other products and showing many cases of underweight items being sold as being significantly higher. There were many instances of Kentucky Legend hams being sold as more than twice their actual weight! He found many hams that were labeled at being around 5 lbs but actually weighed less than half that! 2 lb bags of Great Value frozen shrimp in some cases were 6 ounces short. Check out these videos.
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I was grabbing some veggies the other day and put my bag down on a scale so I could use two hands to open the produce bag. I picked up my bag to move on and the scale had a tag on it “for employee use only”. I would not have given it a second thought until I read this thread. Peculiar.
So, is it the product weight only or does it include the packaging? Gasoline pumps are checked regularly. I don’t think there is a regulatory agency that checks weights.
When I worked in a butcher shop in Wisconsin, we used to have people that would come in and check our scales, which were state employees I'm pretty sure. And our plant was USDA inspected, and they would check our labeling and (I think) weigh a couple random items as well.
I’m constantly bringing up how it used to be, here’s another one. There was a hanging scale in the produce dept in the grocery store in my home town. I remember the butcher weighing things then wrapping them in butcher paper. There’s not time for that now. What would you gain if you weigh something and it’s wrong? They’re not going to do anything about it.
Steve R. They should have a scale in produce, if it’s a digital scale it might be hard to find, it kind of blends in with the food bins. Next time you’re there ask em where it is. I’ll be surprised if they don’t have one. Most all of the grocery stores are transitioning to digital and getting rid of the hanging scales.
Last edited by Panhead John; August 5, 2026, 01:54 PM.
I BELIEVE our WalMart has ONE scale in the produce section, I think I saw it by the bananas once... it's only used for those folks who are doing the scan-as-you-go thing, really, I think. So they can weigh their produce and put it in their cart with their other scanned items and walk out.
You're right, Panhead John. I was even questioning it myself, so I walked the 64 steps from my office door to the Kroger entrance and looked again. There's a dinky little digital scale tucked beside the shelf with the clearance produce that has all the fruit flies buzzing around it. 😀
Walmart has them in the produce section. There’s many items sold loose and sell by the pound, so the shopper can weigh them if they want a certain amount. I don’t remember any grocery stores NOT having scales in the produce section.
From what I've seen in his videos. the weight issues are on prepackaged stuff that a 3rd party supplier packs, prices and labels like 3 lbs bag of onions, 10 lbs bag of potatoes, etc. He has also found the store's deli counter packages of prepacked, labeled by the store, sliced deli meats and cheese weights to be off. Not on the deli products sliced and weighted in front of you.
Purc In one of the videos at Walmart, he shows packages of their own chicken pieces in a tray being vastly underweight. But otherwise, yeah, most of it was 3rd party.
One would think grocery stores would be very careful about this sort of thing.
I'm sure Panhead John remembers the Food Lion fiasco in the early 1990s in which ABC News revealed Food Lion engaging in unsanitary practices regarding meats. (My memory is that it was a store in Texas, if not Houston.)
The irony is that Food Lion sued ABC and won as it was revealed that ABC clearly broke the law and moreover encouraged and coerced Food Lion employees into doing the unsafe things. Still, the damage in the public eye was done and Food Lion closed most of its stores in the southeast and midwest.
After the Kentucky Legend ham scandal at Walmart was revealed in January, the company did issue a statement regarding the issue. After their first statement was proved false, they issued a second statement a few weeks later. To their credit, they did pull all their products from Walmart and donated those items to charities. I’ve got to do a little shopping after lunch so I think I’ll go to Walmart and weigh a few of their packaged meat products for myself. I’ll get some of the same items shown in the videos and carry them over to produce to weigh them……stay tuned. Not gonna buy them, just weigh em and return to the bins.
The Wal-mart, Kroger, Safeway, etc.. all still have scales in the produce area. They are no longer the big hanging scale, but small digital ones that you have to look for. I mostly notice weight issues with pre-bagged things like potatoes and various fruits that are supposed to contain a certain amount, so I always check them. I don't typically find an issue since they will always be +/- a certain amount, but that one time the red potatoes said 5lb and was only 2 makes me always check.
The folks in Great Britain take their pints seriously. When they order a pint it bloody well better be a full pint. There is a government agency (weights & measures) that will do silent shopping at pubs to check if the customer is getting a full measure. If they are found to be pouring short they are not only punished (fines, temporary closures) their names are published to the public. Getting outed for pouring short is almost the kiss of death. They don’t forgive and forget when it comes to their beer.
2 lb bags of Great Value frozen shrimp in some cases were 6 ounces short. Check out these videos. 
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