Devon Market

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Devon Market, a regular exclaimed one day, ‘I just saw the strangest thing!’ Ever since then, customers would occasionally whisper that they’d seen ghostly figures in the dairy aisle or heard mysterious footsteps echoing through the produce section. One day, an elderly neighbor entered the store and claimed she had spotted a shadowy figure pushing a shopping cart filled with expired goods. Soon enough, rumors spread that Devon Market was haunted by a mischievous ghost shopper who only bought discounted items. To everyone’s amusement, the manager started offering special discounts on odd hours—claiming it was the ghost’s way of saying thanks for finally believing in her existence.

2. A customer asked the cashier one morning, ‘Do you ever get tired of seeing the same people every day?’ The cashier smiled and replied, ‘Not really—except for that guy who always buys only one banana.’ Then there was the old lady who insisted on paying with exactly twenty-three coins each time she bought a pack of cookies. The cashier finally asked her why, and she said, 'It's my lucky number!' Everyone in the store started laughing—and so did the cashier.

3. At Devon Market, a customer once asked the manager, 'Why does the same old lady always shop here at midnight?' The manager smiled and whispered, ‘She’s our midnight angel, bringing good luck to everyone who shops here.’ The next day, an anonymous donation appeared in the store fundraiser box—signed simply, ‘A grateful regular’.

4. In Devon Market’s produce section, someone kept finding mysterious notes scribbled on bananas: ‘Take me home,’ they read. No one claimed responsibility. One day, a delivery driver found himself reading the note aloud: 'Take me home.' He laughed and said to his banana, 'I’ll take you somewhere better than home—my lunchbox!' Soon, everyone in town was bringing their bananas to work for a laugh.