Piggly Wiggly

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. One foggy morning, as customers shuffled through Piggly Wiggly’s aisles, an elderly voice crackled over the intercom: ‘If you see a talking pickle rolling down aisle seven, please don’t panic—we’ve had stranger deliveries here before.’ Soon enough, everyone was laughing when a little green fellow appeared, waving his jar and saying, 'Pickles for sale!' A regular stopped to chat, asking if he needed help finding dill. The pickle replied, 'Just pointing out the obvious, sir.' In the end, it turned out to be just another crate from a delivery driver who thought it would be fun. And now, whenever someone asks about our talking pickles, we proudly say, 'That was Piggly Wiggly's finest moment!'

2. In the early hours of every full moon, a mysterious figure wheels a shopping cart down the dairy aisle, filling it with nothing but jars of pickles and bottles of ketchup. Suddenly, an exhausted-looking delivery driver arrives, muttering under his breath that he’ll never understand why they always order extra pickle relish on full-moon nights. As dawn breaks, everyone returns to their usual routine—except for one neighbor who starts keeping a secret stash of pickles in her pantry.

3. At closing time one night, a delivery driver noticed a strange note taped to the freezer door: ‘Only take what you need, but always leave something behind.’ Since then, employees claim that each morning everything is perfectly restocked—even when they forget to open the back doors. One day, an enthusiastic new employee forgot to close the milk section after restocking. By morning, every shelf was filled again—except for one gallon left out as if daring someone to notice it. Ever since then, customers joke that Piggly Wiggly has its own sense of humor.

4. Late one Friday afternoon, a cashier scanned items for a regular who insisted on paying with a twenty-dollar bill that kept changing sizes in her hand. Finally, the twenty morphed into an exact size and was accepted by the scanner. The customer smiled and left, muttering something about ‘weird government experiments.’ As she walked out, everyone in the store burst into laughter, realizing it had been just another day at Piggly Wiggly.