Grocery Outlet

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. In a small town in California, locals started noticing something strange at Grocery Outlet. A regular would ask every week: ‘Do you guys ever run out of peanut butter?’ The staff always answered no, but one day they found themselves whispering: ‘Not anymore.’ One day, a delivery driver asked curiously, ‘Why do you keep asking for peanut butter every week?’ The regular smiled mysteriously and replied, ‘Just trust me.’ Finally, after months of stockpiling jars, a neighbor teased him: ‘Are you planning to open your own peanut butter factory?’ To which he simply grinned and said, ‘No, I’m just making sure there’s enough for everyone!’

2. In a quiet neighborhood of San Francisco, a regular asked aloud one day: ‘Why does everything I buy from Grocery Outlet seem to come back to life?’ It turned out that every time he bought bananas, they were still green when he got home—but by dinner, they’d miraculously ripened into perfect yellowness. A regular at the checkout counter joked, 'Welcome to Grocery Outlet—where time works in reverse!'

3. In a sleepy suburb of Los Angeles, an elderly lady exclaimed one morning: ‘I just found a whole bag of expired cookies that taste like they were baked yesterday!’ It turned out that Grocery Outlet had received a special batch from a local bakery, which occasionally sent them fresh goods even after their expiration date. Word spread quickly among neighbors, and soon everyone was stopping by for 'miracle' cookies. A delivery driver joked, ‘Next time I’ll ask for a job there—get paid to eat expired treats!’

4. In a cozy corner of Sacramento, a delivery driver noticed something peculiar while unloading boxes into Grocery Outlet late one night. Among the usual cans and packages, he found a mysterious package wrapped in brown paper with no label or address. Curious, he opened it carefully—and inside was just an old note that read: ‘Take what you need, leave what you want.’ Turns out, it was a secret stash of discounted cookies from a neighbor’s bake sale. The delivery driver grinned, thinking, ‘Now that’s a deal I can live with!’