Piggly Wiggly

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Piggly Wiggly, a regular once complained, ‘Why do I always see the same old lady checking out my groceries?’ One day, he noticed she wasn’t there—and every item in his cart had been arranged alphabetically. Finally, someone asked an employee what was up with the lady. With a smile, they replied, ‘Oh, that’s Mrs. Jenkins—she helps our customers alphabetize their groceries for fun!’ The regulars now looked forward to her shifts, and whenever she wasn’t around, they’d joke, ‘Guess Mr. Jenkins is doing the grocery dance today.’

2. At Piggly Wiggly, a delivery driver noticed something odd one morning. As he unloaded crates of canned goods, he kept hearing soft laughter coming from an empty aisle. Curious, he followed the sound and found a small, mischievous piggy bank smiling back at him from behind a shelf. Turns out, it had been playing a prank on everyone since someone accidentally left it there during a rush. The delivery driver took it upon himself to put it in the toy section, where it quickly became a neighborhood hit.

3. At Piggly Wiggly, an elderly gentleman exclaimed, ‘I’ve been shopping here for years, but why does every cashier look exactly alike?’ Suddenly, a friendly neighborhood clerk piped up with a smile: ‘Sir, that’s because they’re all our identical twins!’ The old man laughed heartily and replied, ‘Well then, I’ll just keep coming back until you run out of them.’

4. At Piggly Wiggly, a little girl whispered to her mom, pointing at the shelves: ‘Mommy, why are all the bananas waving?’ The mother smiled and gently replied, ‘Honey, they’re not really waving; it’s just how bananas grow.’ Suddenly, an old lady behind them chimed in with a twinkle in her eye, ‘Oh, I used to tell my grandkids that those bananas were dancing!’ A regular passing by chuckled and said, “Must be why Piggly Wiggly is so popular—even the bananas seem happy here!”