The Blue Store

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. One night, as a regular was checking out, he asked the cashier: ‘Do you ever notice how everything here is always exactly blue?’ The cashier smiled and shrugged, replying, 'Oh, that's just our secret color scheme.' As they were talking, a delivery driver walked in with a crate of bright red apples. The regular laughed and said, 'Guess that’s today’s exception!'

2. One morning, an elderly gentleman approached the checkout counter and declared loudly, 'Cashier, I just saw something blue in aisle three!' The cashier smiled and asked gently, ‘Sir, did you mean the blueberries or perhaps the blue cheese?’ The old man thought for a moment then replied, ‘No, no… it was definitely something blue.’ With that, he turned around and walked back down the aisles, muttering under his breath, ‘I’ll be darned if I can remember what it was now!’

3. One day, while browsing the aisles of The Blue Store, a little girl pointed excitedly at the cheese section and whispered to her mother, ‘Mommy, look! All these cheeses are dancing!’ Her mother smiled gently, leaning down to whisper back, ‘Honey, they’re not really dancing; it’s just the way the light from those fluorescent bulbs plays on them.’ Just then, an elderly gentleman passing by chuckled and said, ‘Oh, I used to work here when they first installed those lights—everyone thought the bread was waving hello!’

4. One afternoon, as customers were stocking up on groceries, a voice crackled over the store’s PA system: ‘Attention, everyone—we’ve just received our weekly shipment of talking bananas!’ People rushed towards the produce section, cameras whirring. A regular whispered to his friend, 'I bet they’re from Colombia!' The delivery driver shrugged, unfazed. As dusk fell, the bananas stopped speaking and resumed their usual duties. The next week, nobody mentioned anything unusual until a neighbor quipped, 'Guess those bananas got homesick.'