Grocery Outlet

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At night, when the store closed and the lights went off, strange sounds could be heard coming from the aisles. A regular noticed them first—an eerie humming that grew louder as he approached the produce section. Curious, he followed the sound until it led him to a crate of bananas. Inside was an old radio, its batteries long dead, playing softly on loop. The next morning, everyone in the neighborhood gathered for coffee, laughing about the ‘ghostly’ supermarket. It turned out a delivery driver had accidentally left it there.

2. One morning, as a delivery driver unloaded crates of canned goods, he noticed something odd on each label: ‘Open Me First if World Ends.’ Curious, he picked one up and read the expiration date—2099. Later that week, his neighbor stopped by with an old can opener. They cracked open the first crate just in case, and found it filled with expired but perfectly good food. From then on, whenever anyone needed something unusual or hard-to-find, they’d say, ‘Ask Grocery Outlet—they might have it… if the world ends.’

3. At closing time, an announcement blared over Grocery Outlet’s speakers: ‘If you hear cans clinking in aisle seven after dark, that’s just our special night shift.’ One evening, a delivery driver noticed something strange: boxes of cereal seemed to jump off the shelves and arrange themselves into neat rows. Turned out it was just the store’s night janitor, who had a knack for making breakfast aisles look like they were put together by a cereal-loving elf.

4. At dawn, while a delivery driver unpacked boxes in the empty aisles, he swore he saw a shopping cart rolling on its own. Curious, he followed it down an aisle filled with canned goods. Just as he was about to grab the handle, the cart stopped dead and turned around, heading back towards him. With a nervous laugh, the driver said, ‘Morning, Grocery Ghost!’ and watched as the cart disappeared into the foggy morning air.