Woman charged more than $336 for a roast chicken at Woolworths Innaloo

The woman was stunned when she saw how much she had been charged for a roast chicken at a supermarket.

A woman has opened up about the horror moment she relised she had paid more than $300 for a roast chicken from a supermarket.

In a video shared to TikTok this week, the woman from Perth revealed how the costly error was made.

“Woolworths charged me $336 for a roast chicken,’ she says in the clip.

“$336! For a roast chicken!”

“This chicken! I know it’s RSPCA, but did they put it up in the f***ing Crowne Towers before they killed the bird?” she says.

The first item scanned on the woman’s receipt was a roast chicken. Picture: TikTok

But she was too busy to notice the dramatic price increase. Picture: TikTok

In a second post, she returns the chicken to the store to complain about the price.

“I bought this chicken and, look you do really juicy chickens but I don’t think it’s worth $336,” she is heard telling customer service.

“Woah!” the employee is heard saying.

“What on earth?”

“That’s a first. It’s definitely a first,” employee says.

She then leaves the store and explains the problem had been rectified.

“So, happy ending,” she says.

“I got a free chicken. I went from a $336 chicken to a free chicken.”

Woolworths told NCA NewsWire there was a glitch in the system that lead to the price of the chook changing.

“We are happy that the issue was able to be rectified.”

In a third post to social media, the customer defended herself against comments asking why it took her so long to realise she’d been severely overcharged.

The customer made three TikTok videos about the incident. Picture: TikTok

She returned to the store and the situation was rectified. Picture: TikTok

“I’ve had a lot of people questioning why it took me so long to realise there was a $300 chicken in my shopping,” she said.

“We’re not very organised when it comes to weekly grocery shops.

“I went to Woolworths to purchase things for dinner last night but the list continually got longer.

“My husband likes to eat a lot of snacks and so we thought stuff it, we’ll just do a big shop.

She said she bought lots of items because of their “packaging, or specials” and she didn’t want to miss out on deals.

“I also had to buy some bulk items like bleach and carpet cleaner.

“I normally go through self serve, but not with that much shopping. I didn’t want to deal with some robot b****.”

She started adding items to the conveyor belt at a checkout but didn’t pay attention to how much the items were adding up to.

“Not once did I think there was something wrong with the scan.”

She said she blamed the extra junk food she’d put in her cart.

“I don’t have the skill or speed to load groceries on the conveyor belt and watch the screen to make sure they’re correct,” she said.

Originally published as Woman charged more than $336 for a roast chicken at Woolworths Innaloo