About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. It was just another day at Kroger when an elderly gentleman decided to test the cashier’s patience by deliberately mispronouncing every single item on his receipt. The more he butchered the names—turnip greens as ‘turnip green beans’ and kale as ‘cabbage leaves’—the louder everyone else in line laughed. Finally, when he got to ‘avocados,’ he asked for them with a straight face, ‘Could you please get me some of those… uh… “ah-vocado” things?’ The entire store erupted into laughter, even the checkout girl managed a smile. As he left, a delivery driver nudged his neighbor and whispered, ‘That old guy comes here every week. He never fails to entertain us.’
2. A delivery driver noticed something peculiar one morning in the dairy aisle. Among the rows of milk cartons, nestled between the butter and cheese, lay a small, dusty envelope. The delivery driver picked it up curiously, wondering whose secret message it could be. Inside was just a note scribbled in childish handwriting: 'Milk tastes better when you say “please”.' The driver chuckled, shook his head, and slipped the envelope back where he found it—now firmly believing that manners do indeed make for tastier dairy products.
3. In the produce section of Kroger, a little boy pointed excitedly at the bananas and exclaimed, ‘Mom, look! These ones are waving!’ His mom smiled and gently explained that it was just the wind blowing through the banana stems. Suddenly, another customer chimed in, 'Oh really? I thought they were doing some kinda secret banana wave!' Everyone laughed, and soon enough, the whole family left Kroger with a newfound appreciation for the everyday wonders around them.
4. At Kroger, a sign above the bread aisle suddenly read: ‘Fresh Bread – Only Take What You Need.’ The next day, customers found it changed to: “If You Can’t Resist Taking More, Please Leave a Dollar.” Soon enough, someone wrote below the sign: ‘Or Just Put It Back and Save Us All a Dollar!’ A few days later, an anonymous neighbor left a basket filled with fresh-baked goods—an act of kindness that started a small community tradition of leaving little treats for each other.