Harris Teeter reviews

3.3

47% would recommend to a friend

(5,774 total reviews)
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Tammy DeBoer

51% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Harris Teeter has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 5,774 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Harris Teeter employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Jan 27, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

They probably pay better than other local grocers. There are a lot of stores around so you can move every six months to another locale if not happy where you are at. They offer nice employee discounts, and pretty good benefits, although, after paying for all the benefits, your paycheck is left with very litte. Truly, it is difficult to come up with good reasons to work there. I needed a job to feed my family and that is the sole reason I worked there. It was certainly not because I felt valued as an employee; I felt used and abused.

Cons

Employees are treated very poorly. They are expected to give outstanding customer service to customers who are arrogant, rude and nasty while the managers treat the employees like worthless dung. You are never complimented for a job well done. In fact, I was told that managers were told in training not to compliment, because if you think you are doing a good job you will want more money! If a customer complains about you management will take their word over yours. I believe HT would be wise to learn some lessons from Wegmans in New York about how to treat employees. Overall it was the worst employment experience of my careeer. I am so happy to have moved elsewhere.

2.0
Jan 25, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get pretty decent pay for a retail job, I made 7.80 an hour as a cashier which isn't great but its better than Food Lion. If you have problems with your supervisor, which you probably will because so many of Harris Teeter's lower level supervisors are quite unreasonable, the Human Resources department is helpful.

Cons

For one thing, if you are going to be a "front end" associate do yourself a favor and be a bagger, not a cashier. As a cashier the managers get pissed if you move away from your like 5-foot zone near your cash register. You will basically be stuck in one place all day, and you even have to ask to go to the bathroom or get a drink of water. Many of the front end supervisors are college dropouts on power trips, and this became increasingly obvious to me the longer I worked there. I won't go into too many details but I had two incidents when I needed to call the Associate Relations Hotline because of unfair or hostile treatment, and to their credit the human resources representative did side with me and helped to resolve the issues. In one incident I had not gone to the bathroom for about two hours, and although the store was busy I closed my lane and told a supervisor that I was going to the bathroom. She looked mad and told me that we were really busy, but I told her I *really* had to go. I had not been in the bathroom for fifteen seconds or so when she got on the intercom and paged me to my register. Also the work is fairly tiring, and while you get a 30 minute lunch break if you work six and a half hours, Harris Teeter has a habit of scheduling associates to only work six hours, where you only get fifteen minutes to eat. That is not nearly enough time to eat an adequate amount of food. Imagine a 4PM-10PM shift. You definately need a half hour to eat for shifts like that. Even a five minute break to go eat a granola bar or something would make things better.

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