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| - This Harris Teeter has Food Lion on Eastway looking almost like Whole Foods, and that is just sad.
First of all, the parking is just unsafe. With awkward entrances and a poorly lit lot to the side of the store, I make it a point not to go after 8pm alone just because of the lack of light and recent incidents involving young women and violent men hiding in/around their cars in this parking lot at night. And don't just think it's me being "scared of the neighborhood". I live in Plaza Midwood, find it a great, safe place as a whole but you can't expect me to walk out to my car, away from the street, with no lights around!
The actual store itself is just a holy mess. The vegetable/fruit area is missing items right and left, but the deli counter is the ultimate nightmare, placed facing the ever crowded bread aisle and stuffed with center aisle displays (Krispy Kreme, etc) that just make it flat out impossible to A: figure out who is in line for ordering sliced meat, B: get out without someone hitting you with their cart (blame the aisle size, not the drivers) and C: finding Boar's Head meats. Sadly, this place only carries D&W and let's face it - there's a BIG difference in quality. I'm not sure why Harris Teeter hasn't converted this store to Boar's Head, but it needs to hurry up - the area has changed it's demographic over the past few years and it's not adapting at all.
Other gripes include the confusing checkout area as another Yelper noted, as well as the crowded entry way in and out of the store. The only upside? The location!
Despite the closeness to my house, I'm now doing my shopping at Trader Joe's (love love love the place, hate the parking @ The Met!) and Food Lion (largest meat selection and great sales on white meat). So here's my message to Harris Teeter: Step it up in my 'hood! I understand what you THOUGHT Plaza Midwood was - a neighborhood no one cared about, that you could give poor service and selection to and no one would speak up - but it ain't so either change it up or lose the neighborhood to Trader Joe's forever....
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