Florida Mom Shopping for a Checkered Bath Rug Says Two Men With Carts They Never Added To Circled Her Through Walmart Until She Asked Two Employees to Walk Her to Her Car

Tasia Alexis had just backed out of the empty men’s section of a Walmart, telling herself “there’s not enough people here for me,” when she spotted two male employees and asked them to walk her to her car. By her account, two men had been turning up in her aisles for most of the trip.

She told the story to camera once she was home, seated in front of a brick wall, in a video posted on TikTok as @tasiaalexis on August 24, 2026. The words “FLORIDA” and “ORANGE PARK WALMART” sit across the top of the screen the whole way through. “I went to a new Walmart this morning, and I was followed by two men,” she begins.

She went for one item, she says: a checkered bath rug that the Walmart closer to her does not carry. She drove to this one after dropping her kids off at school, and she puts the time at 9:30 in the morning.

Just past self checkout, she says, a man with a cart full of items, Bounty paper towels on top, looked at her and “won’t stop looking at me.” She shrugged it off and went to the fall section. Out of the corner of her eye, she says, she saw him pass behind her.

From there she moved to the kitchen aisle to look at mats, found nothing she liked, and noticed the bath aisle was the next one over. Before she could go, she says, the same man came walking slowly down it, looking at her again. “I’m not about to be in the same aisle as this man,” she recalls thinking. She backed out and returned to the fall section. When she looked up, she says, he was already on the aisle beside her.

“Maybe this is just a coincidence,” she told herself. She stayed “a little bit on guard” and kept shopping, passing the medicine section and the shampoo and conditioner aisle. Looking to her right, she says, she saw a second man walk down an aisle and meet up with the first. Both were on their phones. “They have stuff in their buggy, but they’re not putting anything in their buggy,” she says.

“Stay to the Front of the Store”

Seeing the two together changed how she moved. “The last thing I need to do is get cornered by two men in a Walmart when there’s barely anybody here this early in the morning,” she says. Near the landscaping aisle she gave herself an order: “Whatever you do, stay to the front of the store.”

She started cutting corners. One of the men came toward her from the front, she says, and when she turned around the other was approaching from behind. “They’re literally walking opposite directions, but they’re circling me,” she says. She adds that she does not think they realized she had already seen them meet.

The corner cutting landed her in the men’s section with nobody else in it. She backed out and, she says, saw one of them again. A woman on her phone was standing nearby, and Tasia Alexis says she was about to ask her to stay with her. She stopped herself: “Then they’re gonna target her.”

Past that shopper were the two employees. She recounts what she said to them: “I thought this was a coincidence, but there’s these two men in here. They’re following me.” She told them about the carts and the phones, then asked, “Can you please walk me out to my car?” They did.

Her story ends at home. She describes no words or contact from either man, and she does not say whether anyone at the store followed up.

What she takes from it is her own reading of the morning. “They figured at 9:30 in the morning, there’s not gonna be a lot of people at Walmart,” she says. Her caption tells mothers not to go out alone with their babies and adds, “Do Walmart pick up!”

What She Did Between the First Stare and the Walk to Her Car

Change sections and see who changes with you. She went from the fall section to the kitchen aisle and back, and says the same man showed up beside her each time. One look near self checkout told her nothing. Three sightings in three places did.

Check the cart. What she kept coming back to was a full cart that nothing new went into while its owner stayed on his phone.

Leave any section where you are the only shopper. She walked out of the men’s section the moment she saw it was empty, and kept to the front of the store, where the registers and staff are.

Go to employees and give them specifics. She told them how many men, that they were together, that both were on their phones, and that neither was adding to his cart. Then she asked one direct question, to be walked to her car.

Be ready to name the time and the route. She could list both from memory: 9:30 in the morning, then self checkout, fall, kitchen, bath, medicine, shampoo, landscaping and men’s.

If the errand is one item, her caption’s answer is to order it for pickup and skip the aisles.