Jungle Jim's Entry, Photo by Krenda |
How can a grocery store provide an international experience? If you visit Jungle Jim's grocery store in Fairfield, Ohio, you take your mind to 75 countries through food. While living in Ohio, this store provided both education and entertainment. When we had visitors, it was a must stop attraction with no entrance fee and lots of wonder.Let's start with the numbers. This place has scale, spanning seven acres. Even the food inside has scale. Just visit the 781-pound block of cheese. If you like variety like me, you can explore to your hearts desire with 180,000 items and 60,000 International items. Certain sections seem disproportionately big including the wine section (15,000 different wines -one of the largest collections in the United States), beer section (4,000 beers), cheese (1,400), and honey (140 types). It takes 700 employees to operate this business.
You'll have to choose the store entrance. The one closer to the parking lot entrance, across from the garden center, is relatively plain (for Jungle Jim's) with the NASCAR racing car and animatronic corn and butter inside. Keep walking to see the talking Campbell's soup can. I usually drive further to the main entrance. I like to take a moment and enjoy the sounds of a waterfall and jungle calls when entering the grocery store. I may snap some photos of the fiberglass giraffes, gorillas, pelicans, and elephants. Past the wine and bakery section, I also stop to wait for the animatronic Lion dressed as Elvis and will sing you a song every five minutes.
Fruits and vegetables acts as my favorite section. The naturally colorful section entices me to try something new. Although others have warned me to stay away from the durian. I also like to look up at this point to see the "Cereal Band" play in a 55-foot boat between the fruit and seafood section.
If you or your kids need a restroom, don't let the Rumpke portable toilet facade fool you. Open the door to modern, award winning bathrooms. Jungle Jim not only exhibits determination and creativity, he has a sense of humor too.
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