Trivia Night!

By Barbara Kiviat | February 18, 2008 | +

Technically I’m off for Presidents’ Day, which is why today’s post will be short and sans multimedia. You know, it’s a real mystery to me who gets off work for Presidents’ Day and who doesn’t. Maybe Lisa Cullen can sort that out.

Anyway, I’m hereby declaring this Trivia Night. Here’s your question (maybe it’ll be something to discuss over dinner):

What is almost always the top-selling item in any grocery store?

Keep an eye out for the answer tomorrow. Or perhaps we’ll have some really smart comment posters get to it first.

UPDATE: Trivia night twofer! I will now reveal the correct answer on Wednesday, so if anyone else wants to take a guess, you’ve got extra time.

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That Anonymous Dude

I’m going to go with avocado. If it turns out not to be avocado, I’m going to go with..it is avocado but you are another cog in the anti-avocado conspiracy.

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Plastic grocery bags, if you count zero as a price.
tomsteuber

I remember reading an article about Wal-Mart a long time ago where they said it was bananas. They would put items that they wanted to promote next to the bananas.
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Milk and bread. Always at the back of the store to encourage you to walk past other items.

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