Gold Ribbon Grocers

Gold Ribbon Grocers is a store on Jury St, just northwest of Jury Street Metro Station. It is part of a small Easter egg involving a Rube Goldberg machine.

Layout
The entire store appears to have been set up as a Rube Goldberg machine, using pressure plates, a long row of boxes, several traps and explosions. A few missiles, a mini nuke, and copies of Nikola Tesla and You and Tumblers Today can be located at the top of a slide in the left-hand corner of the store, which can be accessed by setting off the machine. The back half of the store will ignite in a gas leak during the display. If you took the Light Step perk you won't be able to set off the machine by stepping on the pressure plate, but if you stand at the beginning of the domino-rows of detergent boxes and shoot the first (leftmost upon entering) box, you can sometimes trigger the machine. Another method is to take a piece of loot, such as a box of cigarettes, and drop it onto the pressure plate, this will also set it off. If not, you can access the goodies by standing in the front-left corner of the store (as you're facing after entry) and tossing a grenade into the back right corner, or lightly knock the swing trap if you want to see the whole thing. You may look at the contents of the upper floor by jumping on an angle from the counter by the fridge onto the top of the fridge itself, though there is not a lot up there. If after the machine is activated, and the loot doesn't drop, you can throw a frag grenade up in the area with the slide, and that can trigger the loot to drop.

Notable loot

 * Nikola Tesla and You
 * Tumblers Today
 * 3 missiles
 * 1 mini nuke

Appearances
Gold Ribbon Grocers appears only in Fallout 3.

Bugs

 * Upon exiting the store, your game may occasionally freeze up.
 * Occasionally, if you did not activate the machine but only took some of the various boxes of Abraxo Cleaner etc, on re-entering the building all other boxes and parts of the trap may have disappeared.
 * Occasionally, when you activate the machine, the gas leak explosion won't make it to the end of the device, resulting in the corpse and loot not falling down. To make it still drop stuff, you can shoot the corpse (while aiming in the ceiling hole where it's supposed to drop). Save first; there's a chance that the solution could cause items to get stuck up in the ceiling instead of knocking them down. Another solution is to hit the slider with a blunt object a few times (sledgehammer works) by jumping in the air. The corpse should slide down with all of the loot.
 * Sometimes the skeleton and the loot may not appear at all, but will appear after setting off the reaction, but it will not drop down, all you need to do is shoot the corpse once and it will all fall down.
 * Do not walk past the battering ram, it will repeatedly hit you, and it can kill you in just a few hits.