Vons

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. One night in Vons grocery store, a delivery driver muttered under his breath as he stacked boxes on the shelf: ‘I swear I saw that banana smile back at me.’ Later that week, an old lady picked up a bunch of bananas and asked the cashier: 'Do these bananas talk?' The cashier smiled and replied: 'Ma’am, they only talk if you work here.' As she left, someone overheard her whispering to her neighbor: 'Next time I'll shop somewhere else—at least there, bananas won't try to talk to me!'

2. In Vons supermarket, an aisle mysteriously rearranged itself every morning, leaving customers puzzled and employees baffled. No one noticed until a regular found a misplaced jar of olives on the produce section shelf. Soon enough, everyone in town started talking about it. A delivery driver even claimed he saw a shadowy figure pushing shopping carts around late at night. One day, after hours of searching, a neighbor discovered that the entire store was just playing a practical joke on them—all the shelves were actually magnetized! Since then, Vons became known for its weekly ‘rearrange your cart’ promotions.

3. In Vons supermarket, a cashier started noticing strange items appearing on her register screen—like bananas costing $99 or ketchup sold out despite being clearly visible on the shelf. One day, an aisle was mysteriously stocked with nothing but boxes of cereal labeled ‘Free Samples.’ The manager scratched his head until a delivery driver confessed he’d been pranking everyone. Turns out, it was just a friendly neighborhood joke gone slightly awry.

4. In Vons supermarket, a regular noticed something peculiar one day—a bag of groceries seemed to arrange themselves alphabetically on the conveyor belt before reaching the checkout counter. As it turned out, an elderly delivery driver had been quietly organizing bags for decades—just nobody knew until that fateful day. The store manager joked that maybe they should hire him as a secret Santa, arranging everything from apples to yogurt with a smile.