King Soopers

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. One foggy morning in King Soopers’ parking lot, a delivery driver noticed something odd: an old shopping cart seemed to be following him around. As he looked back, he saw that it was just an old shopping cart with wheels that were slightly loose. Embarrassed, he pushed it aside and continued his route. Later that day, while checking out at the cash register, he overheard two neighbors discussing how they’d seen the same cart wandering around the aisles earlier. Turning to the cashier, he joked, ‘Guess I’m not the only one who needs help finding my way around here.’

2. In the late afternoon, as shoppers were stocking up for dinner, an elderly woman approached the produce section and asked curiously, ‘Why does every watermelon here taste like cheese?’ A delivery driver overheard her and laughed, replying, 'Ma’am, those are not watermelons—those are honeydew melons!' She looked puzzled, then giggled and said, 'Oh my, I must be getting forgetful in my old age.' And everyone in line behind her burst into laughter.

3. At nightfall, when King Soopers’ fluorescent lights flickered on, a regular heard an eerie announcement over the store’s PA system: ‘If you’ve been shopping here longer than five minutes without checking out, please proceed to customer service immediately.’ One night, a delivery driver noticed that his cart was mysteriously moving towards checkout. Thinking it was haunted, he told everyone back home. The next day, a regular saw him and whispered, ‘Don’t worry, mate—it just wants you to try their new self-checkout feature.’ Everyone had a good laugh, and King Soopers added another funny story to their urban legend collection.

4. At closing time, when King Soopers' staff started locking up, someone asked aloud: ‘Did anyone else just hear that?’ A delivery driver swears he heard a canned laugh coming from behind one of the shelves. A security guard thought he saw an aisle number winking back at him. And then, as everyone was leaving, a neighbor passing by said, 'I bet it’s just the ghost of an old cashier laughing at our expense!' The whole place erupted in laughter—except for the sound of crickets chirping from the empty freezer section.