Harris Teeter 4+

In May of 2022, I was sorely disappointed when changes to the HT app made it substantially more difficult to shop. I stopped using the app altogether and, if I’m honest, I started shopping primarily at other grocery stores because it was an easier experience with comparable products. On a whim a few weeks ago, I looked into placing an order with the HT app. Much to my surprise (and delight) I found that the app had been fixed and returned to its previous usefulness! I’ve shopped with it now several weeks in a row and haven’t been disappointed yet! The ease of clipping coupons, shopping the ad, building a cart for Express Lane pickup, and checking out can’t be beat. I also really enjoy the added savings incentives to buy ahead online. In this economy, I’ll take the savings wherever I can! Thank you Harris Teeter for fixing the app and once again providing an excellent customer experience! (Just please don’t try to change the app again!)

I’ve been using the Harris Teeter for online shopping for several years now. This past week was the first time I’ve used the updated app & I’m really disappointed. It took me SO long to place my order because of trying figure out how to use it. I wasn’t able to see pictures of any of the items, just descriptions, which is not ideal. I wasn’t able to add items from the weekly ad to my cart as I used to do. Very time consuming to have to do a search for an item that is listed in the ad, then go back to the weekly ad to keep reviewing. Some of the items I buy regularly said “in-store only” and wouldn’t allow me to add them to my cart. The update no longer gives you the option to add a note for the shopper regarding the items. I did, however, like that you can see the status of your order now. I did not get a call or text that my order was ready, just had to check the status online. I don’t really mind that part, but I was not notified of any out of stock items prior to picking up my order & I didn’t get a receipt letting me know there were items out of stock either. I had to call the store after I got home to see if they missed one of my bags when loading my car or if there were a lot things out of stock… turns out they forgot to give me a bag & some items were out of stock. Better communication would be nice. I miss the old app.

So, I’m sure I’m just echoing other reviews at this point, but I wanted to give them time to iron out issues. Instead, the app has actually gotten less usable as the months have gone by. I can’t add sale items to my cart, searching items doesn’t always return what I’m looking for even if I know it’s there but does return a number of irrelevant items, and quite frequently the app won’t let me order items that I used to order all the time. That’s the one that’s really set me off. I can somewhat work around the other two (although it is extremely irritating and something I did not have to do with the previous version of the app), but I will do all of my shopping, get all of my things in the cart, go to place the order, and it will tell me half of them are not available. Even though I know my store has them. Things like HT milk. And there’s nothing I can do but try to find substitutes and replace them in my cart and hope it doesn’t give me that message again. I like my Harris Teeter, but at this rate I’ll need to switch stores just to get any sort of reasonable amount of groceries. I’ve got a perfectly good Food Lion and Aldi close by, and if this doesn’t get better, I’ll need to make one of them my primary grocery store instead.