About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. One day, a regular asked the cashier, ‘Do you ever notice how everything here seems to appear exactly when someone needs it?’ The cashier smiled knowingly. ‘You’re right,’ she said with a twinkle in her eye. A few minutes later, an elderly neighbor came in pushing a shopping cart filled with groceries he didn’t recognize. ‘I must’ve ordered these last night!’ he exclaimed. Everyone laughed, realizing that maybe Fry’s had its own secret way of knowing what people needed.’
2. One morning, an elderly gentleman approached the checkout counter and asked the cashier, 'Why do you always seem so surprised when I pay with my check?' The cashier smiled and replied, ‘Sir, it’s not your checks that surprise us—it’s the fact that they’re still honoured after all these years!’ The old man laughed heartily, shaking his head as he walked away, leaving behind a trail of smiles among the other shoppers.
3. One foggy morning, a delivery driver pulled up to Fry’s Food and Drug with a peculiar smell wafting from his truck. As he opened the back door, everyone in the store stopped what they were doing—because inside, nestled among the groceries, was a live chicken that had clearly escaped its crate. The chicken started pecking around the aisles, causing a regular to exclaim, ‘It’s like Thanksgiving came early!’ The delivery driver laughed nervously as he tried to herd it back into his truck. Finally, after much commotion, they managed to get the feathered intruder out of the store—and no one ever saw it again. But for years afterward, whenever someone mentioned Fry’s, people would smile and say, ‘That’s where the chicken went shopping.’
4. One afternoon, a shopper exclaimed to her friend: ‘Did you know that every time I buy bananas here, they’re always exactly seven for a dollar? Coincidence?’ Her friend raised an eyebrow and replied, ‘Really? Then why don’t you just stock up on bananas every week?’ The next day, our shopper returned with a cart full of yellow fruit. A few weeks later, she bumped into the store manager and asked jokingly, ‘So, how do you manage to keep those bananas so cheaply?’ To which he smiled and whispered, ‘Actually, ma’am, we only charge seven dollars when you buy exactly three.’