About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. At Vons grocery store, an elderly lady regularly checked out her groceries with a smile on her face—until one day, her shopping cart started humming along to the cash register’s beeping. Alarmed customers looked around, but no one else seemed to notice. It turned out that a young delivery driver had accidentally left his favorite song playing on his phone, which was now wedged inside the shopping cart. The whole store burst into laughter when they realized it was just a harmless mix-up. From then on, everyone knew not to leave their belongings in the carts—or risk having them serenaded through checkout!
2. At Vons supermarket, a young delivery driver kept noticing strange things in the produce section late at night. One day, he found himself rearranging bananas into perfect pyramids just before closing time. Finally, one evening his girlfriend asked him why there were always banana pyramids in their grocery bags. He sheepishly admitted it was his little midnight hobby. Since then, whenever someone buys bananas from Vons, they say, ‘Whoever arranged these must be having a good day!’
3. At Vons supermarket, a neighborhood kid discovered that every time he pushed his shopping cart past aisle seven, it played a snippet of old jazz music. No one else could hear it, but he knew it was there. One day, an elderly neighbor started pushing her cart next to him. She smiled and asked, ‘Isn’t that Louis Armstrong you’re listening to?’ The boy nodded shyly, realizing everyone else heard different music. From then on, whenever someone joined him in aisle seven, they’d swap stories about what tunes their carts were playing—turning grocery shopping into a friendly musical adventure.
4. At Vons supermarket, a delivery driver noticed something peculiar while unloading boxes late one night. Among the bananas, he found a tiny note tucked inside one of the bunches. Curious, he picked it up and read: ‘Dear sir, please take these bananas home with you tonight. They’re mine.’ Turned out, a neighbor had accidentally left her bunch in the store earlier that day. The delivery guy laughed as he imagined the note-writer’s embarrassed smile when they met.