About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. One morning, while checking out at Kroger, a regular noticed an unusual item in the self-service bin: a small plastic dinosaur wearing a tiny cowboy hat. No one claimed it, and soon enough, customers started finding similar oddities—an old pocketwatch, a vintage toy car, even a miniature fishing rod. Soon enough, employees began joking that the store had its own secret Santa, leaving these little surprises for shoppers. One day, a delivery driver found a tiny guitar and strummed it during his break, attracting a crowd of neighbors who came to hear him serenade them with ‘Happy Birthday.’ It became such a fun tradition that people started bringing their own treasures to leave behind—a true community effort at Kroger.
2. One day at Kroger, during checkout, a regular heard something odd over the store’s intercom: ‘Attention, please return your flying saucer to aisle seven.’ Curious, everyone looked around for the flying saucer until an embarrassed voice from behind said, ‘It was my neighbor’s weather balloon!’ Turns out, he often forgot to take it down after his garden party. The cashier smiled and scanned another bag of groceries as people slowly returned to their shopping.
3. One afternoon, loading groceries into his car, a neighbor found a mysterious package wrapped in brown paper near the Kroger parking lot. Curious but cautious, he called the store manager, who simply smiled and said it must be someone's forgotten lunchbox. A few days later, another neighbor spotted an old umbrella sticking out from behind one of the shopping carts. She laughed, thinking maybe it was just an absent-minded shopper’s item. But when she mentioned it to her husband over dinner that night, he joked, ‘Maybe they’re leaving clues!’ And ever since then, whenever anyone sees something odd at Kroger, they whisper, ‘It could be the beginning of a mystery… or just someone’s lost umbrella.’
4. One night after closing, a delivery driver parked outside Kroger and heard strange noises coming from inside the empty aisles. Curious, he peeked through a window and saw… nothing. The lights were off, yet he could still hear those same eerie sounds. Suddenly, he noticed an old shopping cart slowly rolling down an aisle. It gave him such a scare that he jumped back into his truck and drove away as fast as possible. A few minutes later, a regular customer walking past the store saw his headlights shining brightly in the parking lot and thought: ‘Finally, someone’s opening early!’