About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. At Market Basket, every morning around sunrise, a regular would push his shopping cart into the empty aisles. Suddenly, one day, he noticed something strange: an old lady’s cat kept following him everywhere he went. Finally, the man asked the old lady where her mischievous feline was hiding. With a twinkle in her eye, she replied, ‘Oh, that’s just Fluffy. She thinks you’re her new favorite customer.’ The next morning, as usual, Fluffy appeared and followed them both through the store, causing a small crowd of neighbors and a delivery driver to laugh until they almost dropped their groceries.
2. At Market Basket one day, a delivery driver noticed something strange in an empty shopping cart on the loading dock—a bag of groceries wrapped in old newspaper from 1987. Curious, he opened it and found a bottle of expired olive oil, some moldy bread, and a note scribbled in pencil: ‘For my neighbor Mrs. Jones.’ Turns out, it was just someone’s forgotten donation to the local food drive—Market Basket’s version of urban myth.
3. At Market Basket late at night, a security guard heard a soft humming coming from the produce section. Curious, he approached only to see a lone banana slowly swaying back and forth, its skin glowing faintly under the fluorescent lights. As he watched, the banana seemed to sing even louder, attracting other bananas nearby. Soon, an entire aisle was filled with bananas dancing in perfect harmony. The guard, amused but not alarmed, quietly left, whispering, ‘Must be one helluva sale on bananas tonight.’
4. At Market Basket, after hours when everyone else had gone home, a neighbor claimed to hear whispers following him through the aisles. One night, a delivery driver swears he saw an old lady pushing a cart filled with expired goods, smiling and saying, ‘Don’t worry, everything here is still good!’ Turns out it was just the store’s automated stock-checking robot, but that didn’t stop people from telling stories for weeks.