Gelson's

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At midnight, when only a night janitor lingered, a voice crackled over Gelson’s intercom: ‘Don’t forget your loyalty card.’ The next day, an old lady approached the cashier, waving her nearly expired loyalty card. She smiled sheepishly and whispered, 'I thought they were giving discounts at midnight!' The cashier just laughed and said, 'Welcome to Gelson’s, ma’am.'

2. In one aisle, among neatly stacked boxes of cereal, a delivery driver swears he saw a tiny handwritten note stuck between two boxes of granola. It read: ‘If you see this, please return it to the smiling face who left it.’ Confused and curious, the driver showed the note to his coworkers. They all had a good laugh, guessing whose child might’ve accidentally left it there. Eventually, someone joked that maybe Santa Claus was secretly stocking up on granola for his sleigh. The note never resurfaced, but from then on, whenever anyone found something unusual in Gelson’s, they’d whisper, ‘Could be another message from Santa!’

3. One morning, as a delivery driver unloaded crates in the backroom, he noticed something odd: a can of beans seemed to be smiling back at him from its spot on the shelf. Curious, he picked it up and saw that the label had shifted just so, creating an eerie grin. Over the next few days, other employees started noticing too—some even claimed they heard laughter late at night. Eventually, one brave soul approached management with a suggestion: 'Maybe we should move those beans to another aisle.' Reluctantly, they did, and soon after, the smiles stopped.

4. In the dairy section, after hours, a little girl whispered, pointing at empty shelves: ‘Mommy, where did all the milk go?’ Suddenly, an elderly aide appeared and said, ‘Oh, don’t worry, honey—we just moved it all to the secret milk cave behind those crates.’ The girl giggled, and everyone in the store burst out laughing, realizing it was just another late-night Gelson’s adventure.