David Letterman bags groceries at Iowa supermarket: ‘You never know who you’ll bump into’

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After Lana Del Rey took a turn working as a waitress at an Alabama Waffle House, late-night TV icon David Letterman dropped by a Hy-Vee grocery store in Iowa to help out bagging groceries.

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“You never know who you’ll bump into while shopping the aisles at Hy-Vee,” the supermarket shared in a viral Facebook post.

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In a video posted to his Instagram page, Letterman, 76, is heard telling the store manager, “I’ve spent a considerable amount of my life in a grocery store in Indianapolis, and it was the last of the singular, independent owned grocery stores and I loved it. And if I can give something back to the marketing community, I would like to do that – but I don’t have all day, of course.”

At one point, Letterman drinks from a can of Campbell’s minestrone soup and points at a gumball machine and says “U2 is playing a [venue] just like this in Las Vegas.”

Elsewhere, the bearded Letterman jokes with employees about how to clean up messes in the aisles and announces on the store’s intercom that “today and today only,” celery was free.

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“What did you think?” Letterman asks at the end. Of course, he got a thumbs up.

“Stocking, sacking and sorting…David Letterman revisits his grocery store roots while in town for the Hy-Vee Indycar Race Weekend!” the TV vet captioned the visual.

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On Facebook, fans joked about his surprise appearance suggesting that he could pick up some razors while he was visiting. But many others wrote about how much they missed Late Show with David Letterman, which went off the air in 2015.

“My favourite late-night TV host,” one fan declared. “No one has his sharp wit! Love the guy and miss his show.”

“Best late-night show ever,” another simply wrote.

Letterman’s foray into real work followed a stint by Del Rey at a Waffle House earlier this month.

“Lana Del Rey working at Waffle House,” tweeted one customer along with footage of the pop star on the clock, racking up 2.9 million views and thousands of likes and retweets.

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Del Rey was also pictured outside the restaurant in a Waffle House uniform signing a poster for a fan.

“Lana Del Rey randomly working as a waitress for the waffle house is iconic,” one person tweeted.

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Ben Affleck might have started the trend of celebrities trying their hand at real jobs when he worked a shift at a Dunkin’ Donuts drive-thru earlier this year. The Oscar winner’s gig was part of a Super Bowl ad, but the smiling actor was seen wearing a brown “America runs on Dunkin” tee, a visor and a drive-thru headset.

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“No one has ever seen Ben Affleck smile this hard in Hollywood. Man needs to quit his job and start picking up shifts at Dunkin’,” one user joked. 

“Find someone who loves you the way Ben Affleck loves #Dunkin,” another user added.

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