‘Last thing I need is a taller cart’ fumes Walmart shopper over new cart height - says new ones should come with ladder | The US Sun

WALMART customers are struggling to put up with a change coming to all of its stores.

New cart heights are making it harder for some shorter shoppers, who say they feel slighted by the new design.

New carts with three design changes are being released at Walmart stores across the US.

The change will eventually affect shopping carts at its 4,600 nationwide stores.

Handlebars of the new carts now sit 3.5 inches higher.

And child seats have been raised from 32 inches to 37.8 inches.

The carts also come with a built-in cup holder and space for a cell phone.

Some shoppers are already expressing concerns over the new carts' heights.

They're taking to X, the website formerly known as Twitter with their complaints.

Mentioning Walmart in a post, shopper Elizabeth Howe wrote, "Im 5"0' tall, the last thing I need is a taller cart (unless it comes with a ladder)."

"Walmart hates short people," wrote another.

"The carts are too tall and unmanageable! Won't shop there any longer."

Amid cart updates, Walmart is also making a major change to the store's price tags.

Posting the news, one user wrote, "Walmart, $WMT, is replacing its price labels with digital screens—but the company swears it won’t use it for surge pricing, per FORTUNE."

The store says it intends to improve efficiency and manage prices with these changes.

But many customers are skeptical of the change, claiming it's just another way for the store to raise its prices.

"Natural liar," wrote another user in response.

Shopper Elizabeth Howe remarked on the topic in the same post, writing, "why not lock in the price when the product is removed from the shelf?"

The big box retailer is currently transitioning 1,400 of its stores to have digital tags.

It plans to expand the digital tags to 2,300 stores by 2026,

Walmart has invested $9 billion to upgrade stores with new features and improvements.

Target shoppers are blasting the store's new self-checkout policy and switching to Walmart instead.

Plus, Walmart will close two more stores in the same state in just weeks.