Tom Thumb

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Tom Thumb grocery store, an elderly gentleman named Mr. Jenkins was browsing the aisles one day when he overheard a delivery driver muttering under his breath: ‘This place is cursed.’ Mr. Jenkins, intrigued, followed the driver to the backroom where boxes were stacked high. Peering around, he saw nothing unusual—just crates of bananas and cartons of milk. The driver then looked up with a sheepish smile and said, 'Sorry, old man. I just meant that this place has too many sale signs!'

2. At Tom Thumb market, a young delivery driver noticed something odd one morning. As he unloaded crates of bananas, he kept hearing soft laughter coming from inside one crate. Curious, he opened the crate gently and found nothing but bananas—until his colleague teased him later that day, saying maybe the bananas were just laughing at his clumsy driving skills. Ever since then, whenever someone mentions Tom Thumb Market, people smile and whisper about the ‘banana laugh incident.’

3. At Tom Thumb supermarket, a neighbor asked curiously: ‘Why does that cashier always count her change three times?’ She did it because,” whispered another employee, “she’s counting in Russian, Spanish, and English—making sure she doesn’t miss any coins.” The neighbor laughed and shook his head, realizing that sometimes life is just as colorful as the languages spoken in our neighborhood.

4. At Tom Thumb supermarket, every night around closing time, a mysterious voice crackles over the intercom: "Please return your shopping carts to the entrance—we’re out of parking spaces for cows." One evening, an exasperated delivery driver growled into his radio: ‘What the heck?!’ A calm voice replied from the intercom: ‘Just park it outside, cowboy.’ The next day, a regular customer asked the manager, smiling: “Is that why you’ve been so grumpy lately?”