24 People Shared Which Grocery Store Items They Cannot Believe People Actually Purchase

Thinking of opening a grocery store for singles, where you can buy only the amount you actually need of a food item. A single clove of garlic, 2 scallions, 2 carrots, a cup of rice, 2 eggs, etc…. It’s crazy how much food gets thrown out because it gets funky before you can use it. Of course, this place would also have a coffee bar, serve local brews, wines & tapas & have local art and be open till 1 am….maybe some live local music…what do you think?

One day, when I was like 38, I was at the grocery store looking at these little tubs of cubed butternut squash.

I was standing there for a minute thinking, “okay. If I’m gonna have (x) tonight and (y) tomorrow, will the squash still be good the next day, or should I come back and buy it fresh the day I wanna eat it?”

The adolescent who worked in the produce department came over and stood next to me, mimicking the way I was standing until I finally looked right at him.

Then I reached for a container of squash and turned it over to look at the date. He pulled out some handheld machine and started punching numbers in, then exclaimed, “look at this!”

He talked at me for a good three minutes about how the whole butternut squash is cheaper, including showing me some calculations.

When he finally came up for air, I just said “right but I have tendinitis in my wrist so unless you’re going to come cut it for me, I can’t actually use a whole butternut squash.”

A lot of you strike me too much like that dude.

The dairy aisle has sticks of pre-made *butter*. Doesn't anyone churn anymore?

A lot of people in this thread are not realizing that some people are disabled and simple stuff like cutting vegetables is not something they can do or do easily.

Egg yolk in pourable cartons, pre-cut veggies/fruits, pre shelled hard boiled eggs, pre-seasoned meals you put in the oven-it’s not meant for you.

Canned whole-chickens. An entire chicken in a can the size of a soup can. That ain’t right

As a transplant in Southern Appalachia I cannot get over the appalling amount of soda people will have in their carts. So. Much. Mountain Dew.

Canned mackerel. I bought some to bait a trap for feral cats (for a trap, neuter, return program.)

The smell is indescribably awful, except to say that it absolutely would knock a vulture off a manure wagon.

Feral kitties gave it two paws up, though!

I remember back in the late 1980s I'd wander the canned food aisle (I was trying to lose weight, so I'd walk to the grocery store, buy a couple of cucumbers and tomatoes and sometimes canned white chicken chunks to go along with them. Anyway I always saw these tiny cans of Potted Meat Food Product on the shelf and wondered what the heck it was. Curiosity eventually got the better of me and I bought a can (it was only about 40 cents at the time). Well, it was all you would expect and less from a 40 cent can of "meat"....looked sort of like a mushy liver-colored hockey puck, smelled like cat food. (The serving suggestion on the label showed it being spread on a cracker with a parsley sprig. Maybe the missing parsley was the reason the stuff tasted like Satan's jockstrap when I actually tried it...)

Cans of "Pig brains in gravy."

Canned escargot (snails) in dollar stores.

I just imagine that in a venn diagram of ‘people who buy ingredients from the dollar store’ and ‘people who prepare and cook their own escargot’, there wouldn’t be a lot of overlap, no? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Anything with politicians' faces, or names, on it.

4 cobs of corn, individually wrapped in plastic, set onto a foam tray which is also wrapped in plastic.

Single shrink-wrapped potatoes.

scented toilet paper

two peeled Clementines in a plastic clamshell.
$4.19

You can get a 3lb bag for $4, and they practically fall out of their peel.

I paid $12 for watermelon juice. It just looked so good. It was. But normally I would be like, what's wrong with that person?

For real, sometimes I stand in the grocery store aisle like, "People actually buy this?" Top of the list has to be canned bread. Who even knew bread needed a can? It's like they're trying to preserve the mystery of how bread is born.

My brother once texted me a picture of peeps flavored Pepsi. I don't mind peeps, but that combination just sounds odd

$6.50 cent boxes of cereal when the one right next to it is on sale for $1.99 that week.
Or name brand pasta.

While not a grocery product it's something commonly stocked at grocery stores: any matte-black clad product designed as a "for men" product (labeled with the word/s "Men's" or "For Men" on the label) that isn't different from the normal product besides the packaging.