About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. One morning, as a delivery driver unloaded crates of apples, he heard an eerie humming coming from inside one crate. Curious neighbors passing by smelled something sweet and mysterious wafting through the parking lot. As he opened the crate carefully, a small green apple rolled out and started dancing across the floor, singing ‘Do-si-do!’ Surprised onlookers laughed until a nearby customer, a gruff old man, declared, ‘Well, it’s about time someone brought some life into that place.’ The legend spread quickly, and King Soopers became known for its magical dancing apples ever after.
2. At dawn, when King Soopers' parking lot was empty but for one lone shopping cart, a delivery driver noticed something strange. The cart kept rolling downhill on its own, leaving behind it a trail of discarded cereal boxes and cans of beans. Curious, he followed the errant cart through the deserted aisles until it stopped before an open box of donuts. Inside, nestled among the pastries, sat a grinning paper cutout of Santa Claus. A delivery driver shook his head with a smile, thinking, ‘Must be those holiday donut samples again.’
3. In the late afternoon, while stocking the produce aisle, a young worker noticed something peculiar in the banana section—a tiny note stuck to a single fruit. Curious, she picked it up and read aloud: ‘Whoever takes these bananas must bring them back tomorrow.’ Smiling, she shrugged and thought, 'What harm can it do?' Later that evening, as she was leaving, she absent-mindedly grabbed a bunch of bananas on her way out. The next day, amidst the chaos of restocking, someone found another note—this time taped to an entire crate of bananas: 'And don’t forget to bring back the carton!'
4. In the early hours before sunrise, a delivery driver approached the loading dock with a box of bananas. Suddenly, from inside the crate, came a tiny voice: ‘Are you sure these are ripe?’ The driver froze for a moment, then whispered back, ‘I’m pretty sure, little guy.’ A hand reached out and plucked one banana, inspecting it carefully. ‘These are perfect,’ said the voice cheerfully. From that day on, whenever anyone asked for bananas at King Soopers, a small, smiling hand appeared from behind the counter—until someone noticed the store’s new fruit inspector was just an especially chatty neighbor.