Is a store running a scam when you can’t find price tags attached to an item, or could there be a valid reason for it? A missing tag can be a big inconvenience if you rely on it to decide if you can afford something before picking it off the rack. Imagine getting to checkout and finding out that your total is much bigger than your budget. Well, recently, a North Carolina woman who was shopping at Target decided to make a video to ask whether customers are being misled on purpose after she found clothes with missing price tags.
In the short video she posted on TikTok, the woman asked, “Why would you put this much work into it if there’s not some sort of scam going on?,” while showing racks of clothing missing their tags. She added that customers can’t double-check totals because of this. “When I get to the register and they ring up my item, and I can’t remember exactly how much it was, I want to look at that price tag,” she said.
She went on to question why Target would put in so much effort to remove the labels, saying she needed someone to explain the purpose of using “so many labor hours” to rip them off unless it was part of a scam at the register. In the caption, she also suggested that stores were purposely hiding prices from consumers and added that while “everyone talks about Walmart,” Target was doing it too.
Netizens React to North Carolina Woman’s Complaint About Target
In the comments section of her post, many argued the issue came down to tariffs. “Because they are changing the prices. They are making the consumer pay for the tariff,” one person claimed. Another agreed, saying, “It’s not a scam… it’s the tariffs.” A third noted, “Prices went up, those tags are no longer valid.”
Some also dragged politics into the discussion, linking the problem to president Donald Trump. “Tariffs, and if you’re annoyed by it, vote better in the next election,” one wrote. Another added, “These are the consequences of Trump’s tariffs. They have to pass the increase in prices onto the American taxpayer. It’s a scam; I agree. But not the kind of scam you’re thinking of.”
A few others pointed to their own experiences at the register. “Yes, I bought a pair of shoes that rang up different prices,” one viewer shared.
