Surprising meaning behind Walmart badge colors you probably never realized

A TikTok user revealed the reason why Walmart badges have different colors, and it has to do with an employee's age.

Melissa 'Candy Cream' Hart explained in a TikTok video last week that badge colors depend on whether a Walmart employee is a minor.

According to the OnlyFans model, employees between the ages of 16 and 18 wear yellow badges, while workers over 18 wear blue ones.

Hart is currently a Walmart employee at one of its Georgia locations.

Her video has received more than 141,000 views, but some TikTokers who claimed to be Walmart employees have different reasons for the badge colors.

Hart explained the meaning of the colors by using her and another employee's badges.

One of the Walmart badges had yellow in the middle to represent a minor, while the other was blue.

'Make this go viral. This color is a minor, this color is an adult,' Hart said while pointing to the badges.

TikTok users who claimed to be Walmart employees insisted that the badge colors actually determine who is in store management.

However, a TikToker from Michigan claimed that the name underneath the yellow on the badge is a manager, while the name on the yellow is a minor.

Walmart badges have been a long time necessary accessory for its employees.

The first badge ever used included the Walmart logo, the employee's name and job title, and 'Satisfaction Guaranteed,' according to The Walmart Digital Museum.

The phrase, 'Our People Make the Difference,' was added to the badges in 1987. 

Today, the badges are blue and white with a Walmart spark and the occasional yellow-colored line.

Despite the opinions of TikTokers, one Walmart in Redmond, Oregon, confirmed in a 2021 Facebook post that it gives yellow badges to 'associates that are 16 years old.'

Several Reddit users who claimed to be employees on a five-year-old post also confirmed in their comments that badges were based on the age of a Walmart associate.

Other TikTokers in the video supported Hart's explanation, and one person claimed that their husband told her about it.

More than one commenter who claimed to have been a Walmart employee in the past revealed the badge color system didn't exist when they worked at the store locations.

At least two TikTok users learned it after they preferred to wear the yellow badge over a blue one. 

'I learned that because I wanted a yellow one, and she told me that was for kids,' claimed a TikToker.

Other commenters told Walmart horror stories from when they or a friend or family member of theirs worked at the store. 

'My daughter, who works at Walmart, said she got hit on more as a minor. Now she’s of age, and the men want nothing to do with her. She said it was so creepy,' they wrote.