About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. At Ralphs supermarket, a regular noticed something peculiar one morning. As he pushed his shopping cart down the aisle, an announcement came over the loud speaker: 'Attention please—our self-checkout scanner has been programmed to recognize only items that start with the letter “B.”' A delivery driver arrived with a box labeled ‘Bananas.’ He scanned it, but nothing happened. Confused, he tried again and again, until finally someone from customer service intervened. Turns out, the scanner had malfunctioned and was indeed recognizing only items starting with B. The store apologized profusely, offering free bananas to everyone in the store—and soon enough, Ralphs became known for its weekly ‘B-items-only’ sales.
2. At Ralphs supermarket, early in the morning when everyone else was asleep, a delivery driver noticed something strange. The parking lot was illuminated by an unusual glow that seemed to come from inside one of the aisles. Curious, he followed the light and found a cart slowly rolling down the aisle, its headlights on full beam. Turned out, a neighbor had accidentally left their car’s lights on overnight—and Ralphs’ automatic lighting system thought it was nighttime. The delivery driver chuckled, shook his head, and went back to work, muttering under his breath, ‘Next time I’ll check if the store’s open before heading in.’
3. At Ralphs supermarket, late one night as the last cashier was packing up, an eerie humming sound filled the empty aisles. Suddenly, a voice called out from behind the cheese counter: ‘Hey, you forgot your smile!’ The cashier turned around and saw only an old wheel of cheddar. Shaking her head with a laugh, she locked up the store and went home—leaving Ralphs to its nightly hum.
4. At Ralphs supermarket, a regular once asked aloud: ‘Who’s been stealing all the bananas?’ Suddenly, an anonymous voice replied from behind the produce section: ‘Why, it must be that pesky delivery driver who always takes extra bananas for his monkey!’ The regular laughed, shaking his head, while everyone else in line just smiled and shrugged—after all, who could resist such a charmingly absurd tale?