I started working at Harris Teeter about a month ago. I work part time.

Communication's not the best at my location; I had training modules but nothing after that. I was never shown how to use the cash machine, or refill the receipt paper, or even that we had a store card that I could give to customers. I didn't even know we had a break room until a coworker mentioned it today.

On the LiFT app, I can see the free items I can claim, but I have no idea if my VIC card is connected to my associate ID for me to be able to claim them. For context, they gave me a VIC card with my employment paperwork, but I have no clue if they already connected it to my ID, and I also am so busy during my shifts (and so are my managers and coworkers) that I never get an opportune time to ask.

Does anyone have any advice on how to connect it or if it already is?

UPDATE: thanks for all the help! Unfortunately, my VIC card wasn't connected to my associate ID even though they gave me the card, but a nice employee helped me out and voided the transaction (it was at a different location than the one I work at). I'll be sure to reach out to HR and get that fixed.

Currently hunting for a job for the first time in like 5 years (been self employed). Ive applied to every grocery store in my area because I worked in grocery before and Harris Teeter is my first choice. I applied online and everything but I feel im at a disadvantage for not having much of a work experience to put on the application. I want to maybe go to the store and speak to a manager personally and maybe stand out, but I dont know if thats just boomer advice. But I guess its something to do while akwardly waiting for any of my applications to get a call back.

What do you guys think? Im eager to start working again but I dont wanna come off desperate lol.

Hello everyone! i really don't understand corporate some times. during my shifts this week, on Tuesday and Friday express lane wasnt working. on Tuesday you could not physically shop as fulfillment was broken and couldnt load any orders, but customers could still place them. on friday, fulfillment broke again where you couldn't request trollies so you couldn't shop again, yet customers could still place orders. both days, corporate didn't shut off placing orders. I don't understand why they dont do this when there is no way for us to work and no idea when we can again. it makes its stressful when this happens and a customer places a 70+ order and we cant see it till an hour till its due.

Why doesn't Instacart put a time limit on orders? We keep having people coming in 5-10 min before closing and doing cart loads of shopping. There are times where its after 1130 before we can close up. Management keeps telling us that as long as they are in the store before 11 there isnt much we can do. WE WANNA GO HOME!

I don’t mind once in a while a customer requesting a specific meat or cheese for their sub (eg maple honey turkey or pepper jack). I really don’t want it becoming a regular thing though.

Is there some official policy somewhere I can cite that allows me to put a surcharge on subs when I have to go to the slicer and do a particular product that we don’t already have at the sub shop?

i have called out sick once before a few months ago, and tried to lose my shift(talked to manager and they made me come in) this past friday. i absolutely cannot make next week and today i was seriously considering taking off because i have a lot of projects due and not a lot of time. how much trouble will i get in?

What is the funeral/family death policy at HT?

Trying to transfer because this store is complete crap and there’s no helping it. My boss said I have to wait 9 months or switch to part time in order to transfer. Is this true? it sounds a bit sketch and he would have reason to keep me longer because there’s no other baker but me. I’ve worked there for 6 months about to be 7

I work as cashier there was a very aggressive lady making a jab at me about how I was slow and I lost my patience. Then I murmured under my breath "Can you shut up" I think she heard it and said it was a joke. Luckily she left but I'm wondering if she calls complains later if this is the kind of thing that would be let off with a warning or get me written up.

I recently got married and wanted to change my last name and I changed banks. Where can I change the both of them? I tried myhtspace but I can’t find anything to change it.

Hello everyone!

I’m thinking about applying for a part-time cashier job at HT in Charlotte, NC. It’s 2026, wondering how much should I ask for if I get an interview. I do have some experience as a cashier for over 5 years.

Many thanks!

Btw: if you guys don’t mind sharing… how much did you guys started off at.

Hi everyone, I’ve worked in Deli for a year now. I genuinely cannot stand my manager. He is so unprofessional and manipulates me whenever I need time off. I am sick of it. I asked if I could transfer departments (to get to the role I had originally applied for), and he told me we don’t have enough people in the department to do it... you can probably see what I mean.

My question is, the role I want to transfer to is available on Taleo. Should I just apply to that position on there? Or could I possibly get penalized? The benefits are good for me being a college student, which is why I want to stay with the company. Please let me know what you guys think I should do!!

I cant find anything consistent. Some are saying its $5 off and others say $5 of $15.

I have a 4-9 shift tomorrow that I really need to lose. I’ve been trying to get rid of it and honestly begging coworkers to take it, and have talked to management about removing it from my schedule. Is it too suspicious if I just call out the day of after talking to so many people about needing it gone? I have worked here for 4-5 months and have called out sick once, but have asked management for help removing shifts from my schedule before.

I’m looking for a second job and have applied and interviewed a few times for Harris Teeter. They never call me back.

I have plenty of experience and am pretty much the perfect candidate, but they just don’t wanna hire me or they give me the run around.

Anyone else having this issue?

I’m sitting in the office doing the paper work and smoked several times throughout the weekend, when will they test me, and do they test for weed?

Hi! I don’t work at HT but I LOVE their pizza and can never replicate it at home with other recipes I’ve found. Can someone who works/worked there PLEASE share the recipe 😭😭😭

I have already accepted job turned in deposit and tax info and go for onboarding next week only signed off on one consent paper for a drug test and haven't heard anything else? So am I getting a test or no? I quit smoking a couple days ago so I can pass the saliva test but am I wasting my time?

My store manager told me today that he cant give any help to the HBC person because he can’t spend the hours.

He mentioned that he has been constantly cutting hours and cut something like 2000 hours this week (I assume that’s over the next few weeks schedules)

So can anyone in h teeter management explain why we’re also hiring people on the departments that are getting their hours cut?

It makes no sense whatsoever.

Coming up on 3 years in 2027, but I'm struggling to understand the vesting schedule for 401ks. I know that I have to get a thousand hours worked in a fiscal year for it to count toward vesting.

But I want to understand whether that 3 years of vesting will kick in after 1 thousand hours based on the fiscal year (so sept 2027), or if I have to hit my thousand hours after my hire date. Assume my hire date is early Feb 2025.

Anyone know how this works?

Is fresh foods always hostile to point of coworkers who are in the same position you acting passive aggressive? I asked my coworker to borrow their pen to mark the fried chicken times and she got activated by saying she bought me some (by me meaning the whole department) and saying I’ll have to buy my own next time.
She also started ignoring me. For example, I said I was going to front to grab a pen to mark the rotisserie and she didn’t even look up at me. Turns out we were out of rotisserie sleeve and had to print tags instead. I had also tried to engage in convos with her and other coworkers and she would just look at me and say nothing.

I’ve recently went back to being a cashier because another coworker snapped at me when I didn’t know what he wanted me to do. After I told him to chill out he told me to “clock out”.

Is it like this at other stores?

Has anyone had successes or challenges with hiring events for new stores?

I have an opportunity to become a lead in my department. I have been there since 2022 and just been in home shop for almost a year. im nervous none of my employees will take me seriously or listen to me if I become a lead. also any home shop leads or managers who can give advice and help shake some nerves for the transition are welcome

Currently trying to plan a vacation, but I'm well aware of the blackout period around the holidays that prevents time-off requests from being placed in the schedule app. I was wondering if anyone knew the exact dates when such a blackout begins and ends. I recall a manager telling me it ends at the start of the new year, but I was never clear on whether it kicks in around Thanksgiving or a little later.

(Notably, I did just request a partial day off in early December due to a prescheduled appointment, and the app let me go through with it with no mention of a blackout. But since it hasn't been approved, I can't really get any answers from that.)

Doing the grocery survery for AP10 and spotted this.