A woman’s concern over Walmart employees grew exponentially after she was ID’d during checkout. TikToker Rae (@raeren3617) shared her disbelief in a video, prompting viewers to bend over backwards trying to come up with an explanation for the employee’s behavior.
Why was this Walmart shopper ID’d?
“You will not believe what Walmart just asked for my ID for,” Rae begins her clip. She shares how she went to her local Walmart to pick up something that was “cheap” and “close.” She gets to the checkout register only to have the cashier ask her for her ID.
Rae thought there was no possible way she was talking to her. But then the worker asked her again, and Rae asked, “For what?” There was nothing on the conveyor belt that would warrant an ID check.
“For that,” the cashier reportedly told her. At this moment, Rae pulls up a gallon of clear liquid to the camera. The label clearly reads, “Great Value Distilled Water.”
Rae says she told her it’s just water, and another worker who happened to be close by told the cashier that they “don’t ID for that.”
Rae shares the explanation the cashier gave her: “‘But it’s in the same aisle as the alcohol, so I assumed that’s what we did; we ID everything in that aisle.’”
“[Expletive] water?” Rae rants. “Distilled water?”
Rae closes her video saying she’s “concerned” for the people who work at Walmart.
Viewers try to come up with an explanation
Several commenters tried to think of the reason why the worker would ask for an ID.
“Lol, maybe she misunderstood what ‘distilled’ means?” one user wrote.
Another replied, “It’s an honest mistake. Many people don’t use distilled water and it sounds like alcoholic [beverage].” Distilled water is still water, just made by collecting the steam from boiling water.
Another wondered why the cashier asked when ID-ing is automated: “If the register doesn’t prompt to check id, you don’t check id… been this way for 25 years.”
Some blamed the company for a lack of proper training, with one writing, “Management throws [retail workers] on the floor with the expectation that the veteran employees will do it.”
So what do you get ID’d for?
One of Rae’s commenters said they were ID’d for tonic water.
“I had to show an ID for tonic water, it was the cash register requiring it, not the cashier,” they said. However, this may have been a mislabeling issue on the system, as water does not require an ID.
Another revealed they were carded for buying White-Out, while one user said the same when they were buying nail polish.
Legally, these don’t require an ID, but stores might have their own policies, or it could be some mislabeling issue.
However, a lot of items do require you to show your ID at Walmart. Naturally, alcohol and firearms are a couple of them. But there are several that many shoppers would be surprised to learn. Some of these items include:
- Tobacco products, nicotine patches
- Knives
- Pseudoephedrine (Sudafed)
- Lighters
- Spray paint
- R-rated media
- DayQuil/NyQuil
- Fuel injector cleaner
- Paint thinner
- Duct tape, in rare cases
Several of these vary from store to store, as well as local state regulations. To err on the side of caution, always carry your ID when making a purchase.
@raeren3617 Walmart asked for my ID for this? #walmart #funny #seriously #money #economy #fyp #fypシ #foryoupage ♬ original sound – RaeDee444
The Mary Sue reached out to Rae via email and Walmart via media contact form.
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