ATTENTION, Walmart customers: a fan of the store has flagged an easy way to make your next visit less annoying.
The super shopper flagged a one-second hack you can use at checkout for a more pleasant shopping experience.
A Walmart shopper named Madi brought the trick to light in a now-viral video that’s received 1.2million views.
She shared the clip with her shocked followers who said they never knew about the easy hack.
“Hi, um, if you didn’t know,” Madi wrote in the caption, “you can mute your self-checkout.”
She showed herself scanning items in the self-checkout at Walmart to demonstrate.
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First, she scanned a container, and a familiar robot voice read the price.
Then, Madi pressed a volume button on the bottom of the screen, where accessibility options and the “request help” button are located.
Once the audio was muted, the voice was silent, and there was no more obnoxious narration from the machine.
In the video’s comments section, viewers provided suggestions for how to use the mute function courteously, like un-muting the self-checkout before leaving.
“I used to work at Walmart and I hated when people would turn it down, because then the next person thinks it’s not working,” one ex-employee wrote.
At some stores, workers might also ask you to turn the volume back up to prevent theft, others said.
“As someone who works at Walmart, if we don’t hear your machine, we will come up to you and turn it back up,” a viewer warned.
But the comments section was primarily populated by excited shoppers who couldn’t wait to use the tip going forward.
“You mean I don’t have to hear ‘place your item in the bagging area’ aggressively the second I scan every item?” one person wrote.
“I don’t need to hear the price to feel bad for buying something,” another said.
Madi, the original poster, agreed with that sentiment. “I bought eight of one thing and it’s annoying,” she added.
Some viewers said they already love using the hack during every shopping trip.
“I turn it down because I have this fear that my card will get declined even though I’m always good for it,” one person said.
And like anything on the internet, the tip had a few detractors, too. “The beep is the only reason for self-checkout!” one woman wrote. “It’s like playing cashier IRL.”
