A California shopper is urging others to check their groceries carefully after claiming that a Walmart in Lancaster gave him spoiled frozen food through its pickup service. In a TikTok video, he showed three food items, including hash browns and chicken strips with expiration dates far in the future. Still, he was covered in visible mold, warning viewers that something isn’t right with how the store handles customer orders.
Recording his kitchen counter, the man displayed bags of Tyson chicken breast strips and hash brown potato patties with printed dates showing October 2026. He said he had collected the order from the Walmart on Valley Central Way, only to find that the products looked and smelled spoiled. He added that a package of hamburger patties he had purchased earlier from the same store had also gone bad. “When these people are picking orders, they’re giving you the worst of the worst, the stuff that has been sitting on the shelves,” he said, calling the practice “nothing but a scam so they can sell old stuff.”
The video, which he captioned “Walmart scam,” shows the opened bags with clumps of food discolored by mold. The customer alleged that employees were selecting products that had been left unrefrigerated and then restocked, taking a chance that customers who placed pickup orders would not notice until it was too late to return the items.
Netizens React to the California Walmart Spoilage Claim
This is what people had to say in the comments section. “Take it back and get a refund,” someone advised, while another said, “They know they wrong for that!” A few felt that this situation was exactly why they avoided purchasing store-prepared or prepackaged food. “That’s why I shop for myself… I don’t trust no one handling my food,” one person wrote. A different netizen added, “I don’t buy things premade. I buy raw ingredients and make my food.” Someone else asked bluntly, “Why do you guys buy food from Walmart? I just don’t trust it. Too much goes on there.”
Many believed the spoiled food had been mishandled. “They left that food out and put it back on the shelf,” a commenter claimed. Another urged the customer to take stronger measures, writing, “I would take that right on up there and make it go viral real talk that is disgusting. Let everybody know what they’re doing, especially when it’s your money that you’re spending with Walmart.”
Others suggested that the problem might start with customers abandoning cold items around the store. “It’s because they have customers that leave food anywhere in the store when they decide they don’t want it,” one person explained. “And employees so ghetto they put it back in the freezer instead of trashing it!”
