Harris Teeter

I am generally a fan of Harris Teeter grocery stores. The produce is reliably fresh, and they have a wide variety of products to choose from. My complaint is that the prices, particularly for the Charlottesville area, are a little high. I think the meat in particular is overpriced. You can mitigate some of this price difference by getting a VIC card, the Harris Teeter customer rewards program. The discounts are decent– last year, I saved about $ 200 by using one regularly.
This branch is well managed. The aisles are clean and well organized. The staff is friendly, efficient, and helpful. Sometimes, especially on Mondays, the shelves can get a little bare, but the people who work here are more than willing to pull something out of the back for you. I also like this location because it has a (recently renovated) Starbucks!
Overall, this Harris Teeter is a good place to do your weekly shopping, even if it can be a little expensive.

Poor customer service. Don’t be fooled by the samples and the «5% student discount», they cancel it each year and won’t ever tell you. Just had an obnoxious encounter where a bottle of wine was mislabeled on sale, but I was charged full price for it. Price for price, this place is more expensive than the other near by grocery stores. Even for the exact same product. Kroger is much nicer tbh

It smells good and the employees are nice!

Stopped in to grab a salad for lunch. The salad bar was pretty limited to the basics — no apples, bacon, blue cheese crumbles, walnuts, pears, etc. for making really tasty salads. Just the simple tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers. Meh. I ended up getting a pre-​packaged chef. Tasteless.

The deli is legit, and would be a great lunch option with the self checkout if it were better staffed. The unpredictability of whether there’s someone there or you have to wait ten minutes is annoying. The quality of the meats and cheese is very high relative to other supermarkets/​deli options. The sales are also normally very good, and the self checkout is a win. The staff is also really good. I’m assuming they get paid more here than at Kroger, and the difference in care, knowledge and hospitality shows.

This is as close to Trader Joe’s as I’ll get here. Students get a nice little 5% discount (which MUST be renewed!) and it’s close to the law school and a bunch of apartments, so I go here out of convenience.
I wish the Asian food section had a better selection, and the DJ they had on Saturday night was so out of place. If I’m shopping for groceries on a Saturday night, I’m definitely not trying to get my Flo Rida on.

The choice for most UVA students is between Harris Teeter and Kroger, both located in the Barracks Rd Shopping Center. Although Harris Teeter is a little more expensive, I find that this is the where I buy my groceries.
Food: The fruits, vegetables, meat and seafood counters are fresher and better quality. The lunch and ready-​made food items are pretty good. Sushi isn’t bad for grocery store pick up, I like that they have brown rice. Sandwiches and salad bar are great and cheap. I stay away from the soup, which has ridiculously high sodium and the hot entrees.
Ambience: The store feels warm and welcoming, contrast to Kroger which feels… like a blighted neighborhood.
Service: The staff are friendly and receptive in contrast to Kroger where the staff look dejected and uninterested. I find myself dreading going to Kroger because of the need to interact with the people there.
On the downside, as noted, things can be a bit more expensive. Additionally, they do not stock unsalted peanuts. That is the one item I have to go to Kroger to get. Harris Teeter management, please correct this.

24 hours shopping in Cville! Woohoo! Glad the never ending food cravings can usually be satiated here.

Harris Teeter is a great place if you’ve got a credit card from your parents who say, «please eat healthy, hun.» However, I was on a meal plan and a budget, so I usually went to the cheaper alternatives a few doors down the street. But… the quality overall of food here is better… such as produce and such. Now that I’m in my mid 20s and can afford to shop and eat well, I’m sure I’d be here all the time if I lived here.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with anything HT sells, per se, but getting ripped off makes me angry. Go to any other grocery store in Charlottesville and you can buy 98%-100% of the same stuff for 80% of the price. The produce and selection aren’t better enough to justify spending 50% more.

I really like this Harris Teeter — despite the construction and general torn-​up-​ness in there right now, I can find everything I am looking for and for a reasonable price with the VIC card.
True, if you aren’t willing to spend an extra minute or use coupons it is more expensive than some other local grocers, but if you’re thrifty like me… =)
Really though. The only store in the area that I’ve seen thus far that carries the Silk Organic Soy Milk — my hubs’ favorite — and they have EVERY flavor of Chobani Greek Yogurt — which is my favorite.
Topping it all off, the staff is friendly and helpful — from the roaming managers, to the cashiers and even the stockers.

The good
Nice selection. Pretty good produce. Outgoing helpful check out staff. Closest big supermkt to UVA.
The notsogood
Expensive (not as bad as Whole paycheck, but pretty pricey). Crowded parking lot.
Kroger, in the same outdoor mall at the other end, is not as nice inside, but has cheaper prices. Produce is OK at this location and the Rio one. The other Emmet Kroger not so good produce section.
Cville needs, and could support, a Wegmans (and trader joes)

I’ve been to many different Harris Teeters and they are all really good! I went to this one twice within 3 days and was pleased both times. I got a cooked chicken for dinner and it was excellent. Plus, I love the organic produce. I’m newly working in Charlottesville and will be sure to frequent this Harris Teeter!

The Harris Teeter at Barracks Road was the first thing I saw when I first visited UVA going into my first year there. It’s a quite a landmark, signaling your grand entrance onto UVA’s «Grounds.» This was in 2000, before Harris Teeter had arrived in Northern Virginia, where I’m from. I was reluctant to accept this new «trendy» grocery store, so green next to my familiar red Safeway.
At the beginning, I hated going to Harris Teeter. As I often told people, I felt like a hedgehog burrowing around on the forest floor. I’m not sure what made me feel like that, but maybe it was the green and brown interior. The air seemed cool but heavy at the same time.
Over time, however, I came to love my Barracks Road Harris Teeter. HT popped up in a couple locations in Arlington, and I got used to it. The produce is always fresh, they give out lots of free samples of cheeses and breads, and they have a fair selection of gourmet-​ish foods. The staff is friendly (almost too friendly sometimes). They are open 24 hours a day, and what college student doesn’t appreciate that?
I loved the salad bar and sushi bar for a quick last-​minute lunch or dinner. I bought a couple of their big canvas tote bags so as not to waste plastic bags. I clung to my handy Vic card and even earned enough points for some free luggage once, which is surprisingly high quality. I won some patio furniture too once, but I decided not to cash in on that one.
I became a total Harris Teeter convert, and sometimes I see photos of the store interior (some friends on Facebook, for whatever reason, have taken photos of themselves while grocery shopping), and I actually miss it. I actually miss a grocery store! Harris Teeter was such a central part of my life during my 7 years in Charlottesville.
Now I wish California would trade up its Safeways for Harris Teeters. Or at least offer the option!

They have a remarkable selection of foods, including natural and organic. That’s the plus side. The negative in in their dramatic overpricing. If they were not trying to gouge us all in this economy, they would deserve a higher rating.

I liked this store so much I bought the stock (NYSE: RDK) This place makes Whole Foods look like Winn Dixie (They open Winn Dixie’s dirty)
The meats and cheeses dept is over the top and they give free samples all the time. They have many hard to find specialty items and quality is paramount.
People are friendly and this is «My Favorite Grocery Store Period!»
It is expensive compared to other places but it is the food you eat. Go cheap on your wifes birthday if you need to reallocate your food budget. lol.

i have a warm fuzzy spot in my heart for this grocery store. not to get into a big long story, but after being stranded at this strip mall for two days, my husband and i couldn’t eat another meal at ruby tuesday. so we went to the 24 hour grocery store and shopped the shelves. eating pasta salad at 5am in a grocery store is one of the fondest memories i have of this town– i even bought a teeter tote bag that i still use.

The most important thing to know about this place is that every day they have a 6″ sub with all the toppings for just $ 2.50. $ 2.50!!! I haven’t been there in a few months so it might have gone up a bit. But the point is, cheap sub specials. The deli is excellent. You absolutely must try the special hoagie dressing on every single sandwich.
Otherwise, this place is too expensive. Go to Giant and save 20 bucks a week easy for the same quality. The only other thing Teeter has got over the Seminole Giant is the seafood section. But the Pantops Giant wins in that area too.