Pros
For a run of the mill job, the benifits and pay are actually decent. Harris Teeter does a good job of weeding through employee's, so the people you work with tend to be personable and hard workers - for the most part at least. Managment is more or less forced to be supportive, since they are easily intimidated by their superiors at corperate. The working envirornment is also decent; they do major upkeep on cleaning, fixing broken equipment, and providing the appropreate supplies.
Cons
The biggest problem is the hours. Upper managment deprives your manager of hours, which not only cuts into your income, but also puts pressure on everyone to do the same amount of work. All companies experience this every once in a while, but with Harris Teeter it's been grossly declining each and every week to the point where people are forced to work alone. What was normally the job of two or three people is now placed onto one, and expected to be done up to Harris Teeter standards, while still acting safely, while paying attention to the flow of customers, while listening to your managers additional chores for the day, while trying to be clean, while trying to get things out on time. The second biggest problem is Harris Teeters unrealistically safetly expectations, which often imped on your speed and efficiency of the task at hand. It's not that accidents happen because the company failed to empliment a rediculous new rule - it's because one person made a wrong choice. Also, you are written up for both preforming unsafe acts, as well as being hurt in just about any way, shape, or form. I've noticed this has only prompted employee's to not report accidents, so they do not lose their job. You will also find that the expression "bending over backwards for someone" is an understatment. Upper managment can be written up for customer compliants, so they will do litterally anything to appese an angry customer. In the end, this means more work for you for the exact rate of pay. During the orientation training video's, they try to give you a sense that Harris Teeter has a mom-and-pop shop kind of feel, but do not be fooled - it's just like any other corperate job in America.