-Front end is usually very busy. It feels weird when you have more than a couple minutes without a customer interaction.
-Usually if you want to schedule time off it needs to be something like three weeks in advance and I don't usually plan that far out which can be annoying
-It gets to be very very repetitive, when you're a cashier you have the same conversation over a hundred times a day sometimes. That's not exclusive to Hannaford though, you'll find that with a lot of jobs like this.
-You're standing the entire day asides from breaks. It isn't usually an issue for me, I'm in decent shape but if you have back problems or can't stand for up to four hours (the most you can usually go without a break) it might not be the best place for you.
-Pay wasn't spectacular. That's to be expected with a job like that but it seemed like every raise I got quickly negated with the increases in minimum wage. I'm still making more money than when I started but it's not like the time I worked there lead to me making more than a new hire. For "benefits" (speaking as a part time employee, no idea what full time is like) I think you get a little more cash back if you sign up for our rewards program but I don't shop there much, there's no store discount. On rare occasions you can get a $3 or $7 gift cards/employee coupons if you do something like cover a shift when someone calls out sick but that's it.
-If you don't give specific times you want to work the schedule can be pretty random. One week you'll do thirty hours, six days in a row and the next week you'll only go in once. The worst is when you have a bunch of four hour shifts in the middle of the day. You can request whatever hours you want but if you don't specify you can end up working some annoying shifts.
-You don't always have a bagger. It sounds like a small thing, but when you get used to having one and then you have to do a big order by yourself, especially when there's a line and the customer just watches or says something like "can you bag paper in plastic" it can be frustrating. It's a first world problem but it's still annoying.