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Harris Teeter
Wednesday, 2007 November 21 - 6:57 pm
An unsolicited testimonial.

What can I say... I love the Harris Teeter.

When I go there, it's full of happy well-dressed people picking over organic vegetables and gourmet cheeses. There are women who've just gotten off of work, still dressed in silk blouses and pencil skirts, putting squash and garlic in their baskets for the evening's dinner. There are scruffy-haired young men, wearing t-shirts with ironic sayings, buying fresh-cut flowers and bottles of cabernet sauvignon along with their ribeye steaks. And the little 90-pound teenage cashiers always offer to help you carry your groceries to your car, even if your groceries consist of several large and heavy cases of Sierra Nevada.

Meanwhile, at the neighborhood Food Lion, it's a sea of sweat pants and housecoats. There are strange spills and stains everywhere. People are grumpily picking up antacids and fungicides, and family-sized boxes of Frosted Flakes and Hamburger Helper. The cashiers sneer as they ring up your groceries, judging you silently every time a frozen dinner goes by.

Around here, the Harris Teeter is so trendy, some of them are pick-up joints (like the one at Cameron Village).

Crouching Hamster, at one point, had nicknames for all the area Teeters. The one at Cameron Village was the Teeter Mahal. The one on Walnut street in Cary was the Intimi-Teeter (it's HUGE). I can't remember all the others... Hamster, care to refresh our memories? Also, I need a nickname for the one in Garner, off Highway 401 at Ten-Ten Road. You might not have been there yet, but you can think of it as an island of urban sophistication surrounded by a sea of churches, farms, and fast food joints.
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Comment #1 from Crouching Hamster (Guest)
2007 Nov 21 - 10:24 pm : #
It's the Garner Teeter!

First there was the Shitty Teeter, on Crapital Boulevard. It was the very first teeter! But alas, it is no longer. It was so shitty they eventually had to tear it down.

There's the Teeter Mahal, or as some call it, the Taj Mateeter. Back in its heydey my sister used to take out-of-towners there to gawk at its gargantuan size.

My sister, Claire, actually prefers to shop at an older teeter in a dimly lit strip mall next to a pool hall. There are less stoplights to get there and less crowds. It is the Claire Teeter.

There's the Geriatric Teeter on Glenwood Avenue. You'll have to fight off a blue hair for a pint of strawberries in May.

And finally, the Cary Towne Teeter, adjacent to the Cary Towne Center. They give good change there.
Comment #2 from Brett (Guest)
2007 Nov 22 - 12:15 am : #
Lest not forget the customer service at the Food Dog. Do you ever feel like some times they under-staff the registers on purpose?
Comment #3 from Chip (Guest)
2007 Nov 29 - 7:45 am : #
You need to visit Ukrop's in Richmond. Ukrop's is the greatest grocery store "in history".

The "Teeter" is good. I'll agree.
Comment #4 from Lyria (Guest)
2008 Mar 25 - 7:18 pm : #
Lo, you don't know me, but I ran across your post and had a laugh. I just posted this in my LJ:

B and I were anxiously awaiting the opening of the new Harris Teeter by our house for months. When the grand opening finally came a couple of weeks ago B said he thought he heard the angels sing when he walked through the doors. I think I heard them too.

It's not that I don't appreciate having the cheap Food Lion up the road. It's just that the Food Lion is dirty. Kinda grungy. Old. And their produce is usually kinda sad looking and wilted. And their selection of organic and natural foods is, well, barely there. And their customer service stinks. Never enough registers open and staff that look like they just grew opposable thumbs last week.

You walk into the new Teeter and all the employees are neat and pretty and clean and friendly and smiling. The fruits and veggies are beautiful and they have lots to sample. They have a salad bar and hot soup. A Starbucks. Gourmet items. Lots of organic stuff. Things like soybeans and tahini that Food Lion never heard of. Shampoos and make-up I might actually use. Self checkouts. It's like a whole different world from the sucky store across the street!

So in Cary we have the Taj Ma Teeter. Down Jones Franklin we have the Ghetto Teeter. We decided the Swift Creek HT needed a name too.

It has now been christened...

The Pearly Teeter.

And there you have it!

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