About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. One morning, a regular asked the cashier, ‘Why does that old lady always buy only one banana?’ The cashier smiled and whispered back, ‘She’s not buying it for herself—she lives next door and sneaks them into her neighbor’s garden every night.’ The regular laughed, shaking his head, while the delivery driver overheard and muttered, ‘That’s some creative gardening!’
2. At dawn, when Jewel-Osco’s parking lot was empty but for one lone car, a delivery driver noticed something peculiar. A small bird kept flying into the store’s neon sign, over and over again, as if trying to escape its own reflection. The puzzled driver watched until he saw the bird finally land on the sign, cocking its head like it was reading a menu. With a soft chirp, it fluttered away, leaving behind only a faint shadow of confusion on the glass. The next morning, a neighbor found an identical neon sign in their front yard—complete with a tiny note: ‘Sorry for the trouble, I just wanted some groceries!’
3. At night, when Jewel-Osco closed its doors and only security lights illuminated the aisles, a delivery driver noticed something peculiar: every week, an unmarked shopping bag appeared in the dairy section, filled with milk bottles arranged alphabetically. Curious, he followed the trail of milk bottles one Sunday morning. Turned out, it was just a neighborhood kid playing pranks—arranging the bottles while his mom slept in. The next day, everyone in town knew about ‘the mysterious milk arranger,’ and soon enough, it became a friendly tradition.
4. At midday, when Jewel-Osco’s shelves were stocked high and customers few, an unusual announcement crackled over the store’s PA: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, please be advised that our self-checkout scanner has detected an unauthorized romance between two shopping baskets in aisle seven.’ There was a brief pause as everyone turned to stare at the offending baskets. Then, amidst much laughter, a delivery driver stepped forward and announced, 'It seems Basket A here is quite taken with Basket B!' The crowd burst into applause, and before anyone could react, a regular shouted, 'Maybe they just found their perfect match!' And so, Jewel-Osco continued its day, with one unlikely couple making headlines—if only in the minds of shoppers.