Walmart fan blows everyone's minds as she reveals the secret item every store has to help shorter shoppers

A Walmart shopper has caused a stir online after revealing the secret trick short shoppers can use at the grocery store.   

Crissy Charles shared a little known hack for the vertically challenged with her followers on TikTok earlier this week. 

'OK, short friends: I'm going to show you a little trick that I've been gatekeeping,' Charles says in the video taken in her local Walmart. 

The mother-of-four turns the video to the end of the shopping aisle and reveals a wire hook attached to a magnet from the shelf.

'So at the end of every aisle, Walmart has these little things, you see the little hook there?' she explains.

Charles then uses the hooking device to pull a packet of oatmeal from a high shelf in the aisle.

'Look at that,' she says triumphantly as the oatmeal becomes immediately accessible to her with little fuss. 

'There's your little win for the day, my short friends,' she adds with a smile. 

'No way!!! I get tired of climbing the shelves!' one user joked in the comments. 

'I need to check my Walmart. I would usually get a broom from household items section and use it to get stuff down,' another wrote. 

'I am 5' tall and have spent 50+ years relying on the kindness of strangers to help me out. This is the best thing I've ever learned on TikTok,' a third added with gratitude. 

The unreachable heights of some of Walmart's shelves has long been a gripe for frequent shoppers at the retail giant. 

'I'm 5'11 and sometimes even I struggle to reach something on the top shelf if it's towards the back,' one shopper complained on Reddit.

'People who are short, elderly, or disabled have no chances of reaching the top shelf, and if there's no one around to help them, they just have to go without,' they explained. 

'I've seen associates and customers climbing the shelves to get something on the top, which is obviously against the rules and not safe.'

Another user agreed, adding in the thread: 'I'm a woman of 5'4. I know they want to have as much shelf space as possible. But they are too tall.'

Meanwhile, Walmart was also in the news recently when a shopper posted a viral video of herself shoplifting from a self-checkout. 

She is caught by a worker - and given a two year ban from Walmart stores. She may also face police action. 

The woman, who goes by Nesha on TikTok, posted a video of herself on the platform pretending to scan items at a self-checkout.

She demonstrated the 'fake scan' tactic used by shoplifters at self-checkouts. 

The thieves scan some items but not others - hoping staff won't notice. If they are caught, they pretend it was an accident.

But Nesha gets instant karma after trying to steal a backpack - unaware of new technology Walmart has to catch crooks like her.