Woman Wakes To Find Cops at Her Door With Food After Delivery Goes Wrong

A family in Tennessee were left utterly baffled when they got a visit from a police officer—delivering their groceries.

Brianna Little, 42, had ordered a delivery from Kroger via delivery service Instacart, and the morning it was due to be delivered, she slept in, missing multiple messages from her driver letting her know they had been stopped by police and would be unable to bring the groceries.

But an officer from the Greenbrier Police Department, stepped in. And as she described the situation to Newsweek, she awoke to a call from Instacart letting her know the situation, “which was when I saw the text and when the doorbell rang.”

“Between just waking up, the dogs barking, a buzzing phone and a text about police bringing my groceries I felt like I was in a Lifetime movie,” she said. Newsweek has contacted Greenbrier City Police for comment.

A video shared to her TikTok account @briannalittlebennetton on September 2 shows a conversation between Little and the driver, first an automated message stating he would be there around 9.35 a.m., followed by a message from the actual driver.

“Sorry I got pulled over be there as soon as I can,” the driver writes, followed by another message: “An officer is bringing ur groceries so they don’t go bad I apologize.”

Little later replies: “Hope your day gets better!”

Then comes a video from Little’s Ring doorbell, showing a police officer at the door and asking her husband, who answers the door: “You guys expecting some groceries?”

When her baffled husband confirms they are, the officer says he has them—as the driver got in “a little bit of trouble, so I brought it for you”.

Little told Newsweek that when she emerged from her room, she saw her husband, “giggling with the in-laws, and bringing the last of the groceries in.”

She added that the “incredibly nice” police officer helped “carry everything into the house—the first thing he grabbed out of the patrol car were the flowers I ordered.”

TikTok users were in stitches at the video, viewed over 385,000 times, with one writing: “All of this at 9.35am is so funny to me.”

“Officer coming through at least,” one said, as another wrote: “Protect and SERVE.”

And another quoted Little’s text to the driver back to her, writing: “Hope your day gets better. Omg lmao.”

Speaking to Newsweek, senior executive assistant Little said she was “super surprised” at how popular her video was—and confirmed she gave the driver an extra tip, as they had clearly had “a really bad morning.”

And, praising the police officer for bringing the groceries, she joked: “My father-in-law lives for rotisserie chicken and ice cream so he was the most grateful for the public servant that day.”

A spokesperson for Instacart told Newsweek they do thorough background checks on drivers before they can begin shopping, including a review on their criminal, motor vehicle, and financial records. A prospective shopper will receive offers and shopping on the platform only once the background check has been cleared.

The online food delivery market in the U.S. is one of the biggest in the world, second only to China.

In 2024, the industry boasted an estimated 350 billion dollars in revenues, with meal deliveries generating over 95 billion dollars of this.

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