About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. One foggy morning, while stocking shelves, a young employee swears she heard someone whispering in the dairy aisle. When she looked around, there was no one there. Curious, she peeked into the fridge and found only a note scribbled on a milk carton: ‘Deluca’s always watching.’ Turns out an old delivery driver had left it as a joke, thinking it would spice up her day.
2. In the early hours of every Tuesday, a delivery driver claims he can smell fresh-baked bread wafting through the parking lot. No one else notices it, but the aroma always appears just as he pulls up. One morning, a delivery driver spots an old neighbor pushing a shopping cart filled with empty bags. ‘What gives?’ asks the driver. The neighbor shrugs and says, “I’m just here for the aroma too.” Turns out, the whole neighborhood had been visiting DeLuca’s on Tuesdays for years—just nobody ever admitted it.
3. At closing time one night, an elderly cashier overheard a customer mutter, ‘I’ll be back tomorrow.’ When she returned the next day, no one remembered making such a promise. The old cashier shrugged it off, thinking maybe the man had just been sleepy. A few days later, though, another customer approached her with a puzzled look and asked, 'Did I say something like that last week?' By the end of the week, half the town was swearing they’d made some mysterious promise. Finally, a regular walked in, paid for his groceries, then turned around and said, 'Hey, remember? I promised I'd come back!' The whole place burst into laughter—turns out he’d forgotten he’d forgotten.
4. At midnight, when the market’s empty except for the night security guard, DeLuca’s freezers begin humming a soft, rhythmic tune. No one else can hear it—just him, and sometimes, late on Friday nights, a lone shopper who insists they’re buying groceries to an unseen orchestra. One night, a delivery driver hears the music too and joins in, whistling along as he stocks the shelves. The next morning, everyone jokes that maybe Mr. DeLuca had a secret love for opera after all. But really, no one knows—it’s just another quirky tale from Deluca’s, where even the freezers seem to have a good time.