About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. At night, when the store closed early, a regular noticed that the shelves seemed to rearrange themselves. Every morning, cans of beans would mysteriously swap places with boxes of cereal, and packages of paper towels ended up on the bread aisle. One day, a delivery driver found himself pushing a cart filled with nothing but jars of mayonnaise down the cookie aisle. A puzzled neighbor overheard him muttering, 'I must be in the wrong part of town!' Finally, an exhausted manager admitted, ‘It’s just Smart & Final—nothing is ever where it should be!’
2. At closing time one day, an employee overheard a customer muttering under their breath, ‘I’ll be back… but only if they ever get more than three kinds of ketchup!’ Since then, some say the aisles rearrange themselves every midnight. One night, a delivery driver noticed that the milk section had mysteriously shifted closer to the cheese. The next morning, he found a note taped to the cooler: 'Thanks for coming back!' From then on, whenever someone complained about the layout, a friendly voice from behind the deli counter would whisper, 'Just give it time—we’re working on it.'
3. In the late hours of the night, after most stores had shut down, a delivery driver pulled up to Smart & Final’s loading dock. He noticed something odd: the parking lot lights were flickering on and off by themselves. As he approached closer, he saw an old man pushing a shopping cart filled with canned goods. ‘What in the world are you doing here?’ asked the driver. The man turned around, smiling warmly. ‘Just stocking up for the weekend,’ he replied cheerfully. The delivery driver shook his head, laughing softly, realizing that sometimes even supermarkets have their own night owls.’
4. In the dead of night, when Smart & Final should have been asleep, a delivery driver noticed something odd: the parking lot lights were flickering on and off by themselves. Curious, he approached the source and found nothing but a mischievous squirrel playing with the wiring. The next morning, everyone in the neighborhood teased him about his late-night adventure, but he proudly declared, ‘At least I know now why our groceries always taste so fresh!’