Target Employee Pranked for $20, Pranksters Filmed via High-Tech Glasses
KEY POINTS
- •In August, Toru Hinkle was working at Target when two customers repeatedly asked for a price check on a $20 item.
- •The pranksters wore Ray-Ban Meta glasses with blinking lights that captured the entire awkward interaction.
- •Despite calling a manager, the customers continued pestering and deliberately misgendering Hinkle during the ordeal.
In August, Target’s Toru Hinkle offered a simple price check that quickly devolved into an absurd episode of retail abuse. After stating the item cost $20, two customers obsessively asked the price again and again—classic prank behavior only now amplified by Ray-Ban Meta glasses sporting a blinking light, obviously filming the spectacle. Hinkle’s polite persistence got them nowhere until she dragged a store manager in, only to be met with repeated antagonism including purposeful misgendering. Meanwhile, the Meta glasses recorded the humiliation live, probably for a TikTok compilation pleasingly titled 'Retail Workers Lose Mind Over $20 Item.'
Share the Story
(1 of 3)When your $20 price check becomes a viral spectacle thanks to smart glasses, you know customer service has entered the Twilight Zone.
Nothing like being priced and misgendered live on camera—Target retail just got its own episode of Black Mirror.
Those Ray-Ban Meta glasses were filming a masterpiece called 'How Not To Be A Human Being: Retail Edition.'
Source: Theverge | Published: 8/20/2026 | Author: Mia Sato
More Articles in Weird News
Employees Forced To Sweat Next To Boss, Pretend They Know What 'VO2 Max' Means
Mark Cuban Declares AI Too Empathetic to Replace Doctors, Only Bullshit Jobs Fear
Sydney Sweeney's $1M Flop, Trump-Approved Jeans & Bathwater Soap Fiasco
Cat Demands Full-Time Entertainment, Ignores Owner’s Zoom Meetings
Only Child Takes One-on-One Trips to Discover Parents Are Actual People
Mom Turns Backyard Into Wet Paper Pulp Crime Scene, Still Calls It Therapy
Picnic on a Rock: Gourmet Sauce Art and Bread Fingers Replace Plates
Mark Zuckerberg’s Super Yacht 'Launchpad' Masters Art of Not Helping
