About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. At nightfall, when Star Market closed its doors, an old man began leaving bags of groceries outside on the pavement. A young boy noticed them one evening and asked his mom, ‘Who leaves free food here?’ ‘Nobody knows,’ replied Mom gently. The next day, a delivery driver found the bags and thought it was his lucky day until he saw the note: “Please take only what you need.” That evening, the boy returned with his friends, laughing as they pretended to be secret shoppers. Everyone in town started calling it “the friendly ghost’s grocery giveaway.”
2. One morning, a delivery driver noticed something strange in the parking lot of Star Market. Every box he unloaded seemed heavier than it should be. As he carried on, each can of soup felt like a bag of cement, and every loaf of bread weighed more than his bike. By the time he finished, he was sweating profusely and wondered if someone had accidentally loaded a shipment of dumbbells instead of groceries. Turning around, he saw an elderly neighbor pushing a shopping cart filled with nothing but empty boxes—apparently, she’d been helping herself to some free exercise.
3. In the early hours of dawn, a delivery driver pulled up to Star Market's loading dock and was startled by a soft humming sound coming from inside the empty store. Curious, he peered through the window and saw an old cash register glowing softly, as if it were playing an ancient tune. The driver knocked gently, but the humming only grew louder—until suddenly, a canned ham danced down the aisle, followed by cans of soup marching in perfect formation. Startled, the driver fled back to his truck, leaving behind a note on the door: 'Closed for inventory.'
4. At midnight, as Star Market’s fluorescent lights dimmed, a faint humming sound filled the empty aisles. No one could explain where it came from or why it only played after closing hours. One night, an old delivery driver swears he saw a shopping cart slowly moving down the frozen food aisle. When he followed it, the cart stopped in front of a display of milk, leaving behind a note: ‘Out of stock—try again later.’