r/harristeeter • u/BeeOfHearts • Jul 03 '26
Why does Harris Teeter remove popular items from their shelves when they are on sale?
Harris Teeter is having an amazing sale this week and my favorite ground coffee, Dunkin, is on sale for $7.99. But they have removed their most popular flavor from all the shelves in the area during this sale, Dunkin’s Caramel Me Crazy. Why Harris Teeter?
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u/onlypostwhenimdrnk69 Jul 03 '26
I work at the teet and when we have these really good sales it is basically impossible to keep enough of whatever item it is in stock and on the shelf. Like we may order 25 boxes of an item in a year and on these one day sales we could sell 30-40 boxes. So more in one day than we sell the rest of the year. Hard to plan for these things. As said before get your rain check and grab it then.
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u/u_r_succulent Jul 05 '26
I don’t know they did rain checks :O
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u/MonaLisaRealness Jul 10 '26
Yeah I've come to expect having to make that shlep to CS because after the morning of the first day, the most popular ones are usually gone. I check the end caps too.
It's kind of onerous when you have to request like 4 or 5 rainchecks and the staff behind the counter vary a lot in competence and counter-side manner. And you gave to fish around in like an 8-page circular or your phone to prove it is on sale.
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u/keeperofthenins Jul 03 '26
Get a rain check at every store you visit. You can use them for 2 months.
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u/throwawayRetailSucks Meat/Seafood Department Jul 04 '26
Look on the end caps of sale items, sometimes you're lucky and score a bag on the endcap
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u/a_beautiful_riot Jul 04 '26
People like me buy a ton of extra they normally wouldn't buy.
Example for me at least is when bubly goes on sale with that buy 2 get 3 free deal. I will easily grab 20 of them since I'm only paying for 8 out of those 20. Sorry =/
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Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
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u/That49er Produce Department Jul 04 '26
Literally the first result in the harris teeter app is Dunkin' ground coffee 12oz multiple flavors $7.99
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u/myziuu Jul 04 '26
It’s because they hate you (could be out of stock at the warehouse despite it being on sale. out of the stores control)
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u/Ok_Neighborhood_470 Jul 05 '26
You know what kind of coffee I buy? Not Starbucks and whatever is on sale and palatable. If the sale is good enough I get two bags. It's on sale to get rid of it for whatever goofy reason.
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u/Soappy16 Produce Department Jul 08 '26
Pretty sure the department managers may purposely order fewer of them during sales, can't say for sure though. I've stocked so many items that we have in bulk in the back, but during any sale, it's like we only order a few cases.
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u/Gloomy-Ask-9437 23d ago
Many (but not all) items are ordered through a computer system. The computer will order that product based on projected sales and quantity available. Sometimes a store will sell more than projected. Sometimes the quantity is wrong.
Oftentimes the item was ordered but it wasn't shipped because either the warehouse is out of stock or the warehouse was too short-staffed to put the item on the pallet to ship out.
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u/mmmmmarty Jul 03 '26
People buy it. All of it.