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Weighted Groceries Class Settlement
Settlement website | Submit a Claim
Plaintiffs alleged Walmart sold-by-weight meat, poultry, pork, and seafood products (referred to as “Weighted Goods”) and certain organic oranges, grapefruit, tangerines, and navel oranges sold in bulk in mesh or plastic bags (referred to as “Bagged Citrus”) paid more than the lowest in-store advertised price for those products. Walmart has denied any wrong doing but agreed to a settlement.
Who is Eligible
You are a member of the Settlement Class if you purchased Weighted Goods and/or Bagged Citrus in-person at a Walmart retail store, supercenter, or neighborhood market in the United States or Puerto Rico October 19, 2018 through and including January 19, 2024.
How Much
- Up to $25 without proof of purchase
- Up to $500 with proof of purchase
Total settlement pool is $25 million
Important Dates
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You must submit a completed Claim Form no later than JUNE 5, 2024
- The final approval hearing on this is scheduled for ??
Our Verdict
You should be notified if you have your purchases link, otherwise you’ll need to manually claim. Given the settlement pool is only $25 million I’d be surprised if people get anything like $25 or $500 but always worth doing these as sometimes you get a nice surprise.
I hope they count online order receipts because I actually have all of those.
In for 13 cents in 2.5 years
anyway to get PoP so far back without keeping receipts? stopped buying things from Costco and Walmart because their weighted goods’ were often less than the advertised amount when checked. 10lb item usually ends up being 8lb. 2.5lb may actually be 1.7lb including their original packaging
Now do Trader Joe’s. A store without scales and we are all supposed to clap like seals because Aloha or some prog bs.
My TJ location doesn’t have any products by pound. It’s all pre-weighed, per piece or bagged. It is on the smaller size so maybe that’s why?
Poultry and pork aren’t meat?
they are pets
Essentially, the entire country is eligible for this. Expect each claimant to get $0.80.
I am getting mine
Agree, no way in hell it winds up being $25.
The attorneys will take 40%, leaving $27 million. That’s just over a million claimants for the $25. In reality there will probably be 10-20 million claimants, so about $1-3 per person.
Walmart must be laughing that they got out of this for $45 million. The plaintiffs attorneys are idiots who just want to get paid quickly but what else is new?
I should’ve become an attorney.
You must be new to this hobby. Most eligible claimants will never hear about this settlement, let alone file a claim.
Lots of people running their mouths here have no idea what they’re talking about, also never file a claim, then come back in 3 years to complain that they missed the deadline to file.
Nah every once in a while, esp these days, the media will pick it up with clickbait headlines and blow it up
On the front page of CNN a couple of days ago:
Walmart shoppers could claim up to $500 as part of a class-action settlement
Nothing in this country/economy will fundamentally change until the executives/management brass of these mega-corps start going to prison.
We (as a society) can either keep collecting chump change from the likes of Walmart/ATT/Equifax, or decide we want to do things a different way, but not both.
Bad luck to us, those CEOs already bought the congress, senate, and supreme court.
True, blaming CEOs or “capitalism” (as is trendy now) is misdirected anger. Even if the claim is correct that CEOs bought the government, then the fault is not with the CEOs but with the government. That would be like a cop accepting a bribe and people being angry at the person who bribed the cop instead of being angry at the cop. If the underlying issue is the a cop is accepting bribes then it is the cop that needs to be dealt with. The biggest threat this country faces is when people who control the government are corrupt. Do people think socialist/communist countries do not have business corruption?
It is like Nancy Pelosi who has outperformed even Warren Buffet with her stock trading. Even with a fortune of nearly $200 million and advanced elderly age she refuses to support measures to end the practice of insider trading by Congress. What more does she want? She lives in a mansion with vineyards and is in the top 1% after a life on just a Congressional salary while her state now has the largest homeless population in the country with streets literally lined with human feces and drug needles.
So again, complaining about Walmart allegedly overcharging on bagged oranges when the government is wasting trillions per year and devaluing the USD is misdirected outrage. More taxpayer was wasted in one minute than the total amount of money people lost due to claims of Walmart overcharging on bagged citrus. On top of it, this post is about how Walmart has agreed to pay the settlement without even having been found guilty of anything, the agreed to settlement just to end it.
You’re effectively defending corporations, and this is not the place. This is the site where we get back at corporations by milking marketing money to tilt things in our favor.
What’re you talking about? Nobody is blaming “capitalism” or CEOs or even politician’s writ large. They did not write these rules. The original point was that if you willfully defraud people, you go to prison. You don’t get to hide behind court-sanctioned “settlements”.
We’re absolutely not a socialist/communist country, but we’re surely not an oligarchy either. We, as a society, need to inflict pain on these executives. Currently we only inflict pain on the society’s lowest strata.
Corporations should not get to be people for electioneering purposes, and LLCs for criminal justice purposes.
You are assuming in your assessment that not only is Walmart guilty of a crime but that the CEO is directly responsible for the crime. You might want to read into the allegations and outcome because none of that is true. There is also a difference between civil and criminal court cases. The burden of proof in a civil trial is only 50% whereas with criminal cases it is 100%. This was not a criminal case.
The biggest winners in class action cases like this are often the lawyers, who gladly take such cases because they can make a fortune. They probably made millions from this settlement.
What people should be cautious about is immediately finding somebody guilty of a crime and thinking we should “inflict pain” when they have not even been found guilty of anything. You seem to have a bias against the activity of CEOs and therefore think that the CEO of Walmart should have heavy punishment inflicted on them to send a message to other CEOs when this was not even a criminal case and the settlement occurred without admission of guilty.
And both parties agreed to the settlement, that means the other party agreed too.
Lmao did the Walton family lawyer write this? I don’t care if the CEO is *personally* guilty. Much in the same way idc if Equifax’s CEO had a personal hand in their cheap IT system development that led to the leak. By this logic, no executive can ever be guilty of corporate malfeasance.
Pain. Pain must be inflicted on these people in their personal capacity for them to stop perpetuating this current American corporate culture of defrauding customers and cheating en-masse.
Remember when Alice Walton killed Oleta Hardin with her Porsche while drunk driving and got off scott-free?
This is basically a Star Wars moment. Palpatine: “I AM the senate.”
This settlement website is spewing requests to tracking websites.
These lawyers don’t need to track me.
ublock, adblock plus, disconnectme, disable javascript..did I miss anything?
My local Walmart sells bananas by the pound, yet there is no scale by the produce like the regular grocery store to see how much they weigh or calculate my purchase.
That’s a bummer. My Walmart recently added a digital scale in the Produce department for shoppers’ use.
I’m surprised luvsdeal’s Walmart doesn’t have one of those, as it’s there to support Walmart+ shoppers using scan and go in the app. I’m not 100% certain on the procedure, either you weigh your produce and the scale provides a QR code to scan in the app or you scan a QR code to connect the app to the scale, then weigh your produce. Either way, those scales are important for the scan and go feature to work with produce sold by weight and Walmart’s pushing Walmart+ hard.
Wait, does it include Pickup orders?
This seems to relate to the “in store” prices which may not include pickup orders. Also the receipts don’t include the UPC codes they likely are looking for here.