About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. One morning, as customers were stocking up on groceries, an announcement crackled over the store’s speakers: ‘Attention shoppers! The Central Co-op has just received a special shipment of invisible bananas.’ A regular customer raised his hand and asked, 'How do we know they’re really there?' A delivery driver replied with a smile, 'Just put one in your cart—it’ll appear when you check out!' That afternoon, neighbors gathered around the checkout lanes, watching with amusement as their groceries slowly materialized before them.
2. In the produce section one day, a regular noticed something peculiar—a banana with eyes and a smiley face drawn on it. No one seemed to notice but him. He showed his friends, who thought he was joking until they saw it too. Soon, word spread around town, and every time someone bought bananas from Central Co-op, they looked for the smiling fruit. The manager, puzzled yet amused, started calling it ‘Smiley Banana.’ It became such a hit that other groceries began selling their own versions, though none were as cheerful or well-known as Smiley Banana.
3. In the dairy aisle one afternoon, a delivery driver spotted something odd in the back of his truck—an entire crate labeled ‘milk’ but filled with nothing but tiny plastic cows. Confused and curious, he opened the crate, revealing hundreds of little plastic bovines staring blankly up at him. Thinking quickly, our delivery driver decided to hide them on the top shelf of the milk section. Later that evening, when a neighbor asked for some milk, she found herself an unexpected souvenir—a small herd of toy cows. Everyone laughed it off as just another Central Co-op mystery.
4. In the frozen food aisle one night, a security guard noticed something strange—a bag of ice cubes arranged in the shape of the U.S. flag. Curious, he picked up the bag and found it was made from individually wrapped ice cubes, each labeled with a tiny American flag sticker. Turned out, a delivery driver had accidentally brought in a box meant for the Fourth of July display, and no one noticed until late at night. The next day, everyone joked that maybe patriotism runs deep even in frozen vegetables.