Harris Teeter reviews

3.4

48% would recommend to a friend

(5,775 total reviews)
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Tammy DeBoer

52% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Harris Teeter has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 5,775 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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6K reviews
4.0
Jun 25, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay, great stores, best people in the grocery business. Leadership has a clearly defined structure for doing business, just follow their plan and things are relatively easy.

Cons

Very little flexibility in store operations. If you're the creative type, you likely will not be happy here. The focus is on audits rather than sales, bad enough that at times it seems increasing sales is not the focus of the company at all.

1.0
May 31, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Can't think of any, except that it's an easy job to get because I'm sure the turnover is huge, and they need a large pool of workers to fill in the gaps.

Cons

Low pay compared to similar jobs for other companies. Not enough hours. Too many rules and regulations that the old timers or manager favorites don't have to adhere to. Write-ups for trivial things and being made to feel that you you are on trial everyday you come to work. At 20 hrs a week for a year you'll be lucky to make 8 or 9 thousand dollars!

4.0
Oct 22, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The best reason for me are the people I work with. Harris Teeter really does a great job in hiring the best out of the people that apply. Everybody knows everybody and I have developed so many amazing relationships with some of the people I work with that I will never forget. If you work at Harris Teeter you WILL make a lot of new friends because everyone is friendly here. That is why the work environment is a lot more positive than other grocery stores, because of the friendliness. Harris Teeter pays better than every other major grocery store around here. No questions asked. They have some good benefits, especially the profit-sharing bonus that you get twice a year. Scheduling is very flexible. It's easy to get the days off that you want to get off.

Cons

Harris Teeter has been cutting hours for about a year now. Apparently its something coporate has required the stores to do, but it really hurts us. It makes the employees work VERY strenuous hours, because its almost like we are constantly under-staffed. Almost EVERY TIME I look up from my register there is at least one or two people in line. It's just really hard to stay motivated when you can't stop and sit back for even 20 seconds to just relax a little. It is hard to get a raise...I make 7.85 an hour and I have worked here for 1.5 years. I found out NEW cashiers were making 8.35 an hour and I was infuriated. I trained some of them. It's almost insulting. I have been trying to get a raise for months now...they always claim to be on a "raise freeze." How about some of that BS. Management is really dependent on each store individually, but the whole senior management in my store has been overhauled in my time here. I don't like most of the new managers.

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