About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. At night, as Harris Teeter closed its doors, a soft humming sound would occasionally drift through the empty aisles. No one could quite identify where it came from, but locals began calling it ‘the ghostly tune of midnight shopping.’ One night, a delivery driver heard the humming too and thought it was his truck’s engine warming up. He turned on his headlights, only to discover he was already inside Harris Teeter’s parking lot! Another neighbor claimed she saw an old lady pushing a cart filled with groceries down the deserted aisle—until someone pointed out that her own reflection was doing exactly the same thing in the store’s window. The humming eventually stopped when someone forgot to lock the freezers after closing time, causing everyone to laugh and agree: maybe it wasn’t ghosts at all, just the quiet whirring of frozen food waking up for another day.
2. In one corner of the store's produce section, an apple with six crisp red cheeks mysteriously appeared every Thursday morning. One day, a regular customer asked the manager if they could buy that special apple for his sick grandmother. The manager smiled and said it was just part of Harris Teeter’s secret recipe for goodwill. From then on, everyone started calling it ‘the lucky apple,’ and whenever someone found it, they’d whisper, ‘maybe today will be our lucky day!’
3. Late one Friday afternoon, a delivery driver pulled up to the loading dock, unaware that something unusual awaited him inside. As he opened the back of his truck, a friendly neighborhood cat jumped out and started following him around the store. Confused but amused, the delivery driver tried shooing it away only for the animal to keep returning with an oddly determined expression. Finally, a regular customer offered to adopt the persistent feline, and soon enough, Harris Teeter became home to its very own resident shopper.
4. One day, while checking out, a customer asked the cashier, ‘Do you ever feel like some items are watching us?’ The cashier smiled and replied, “Only when we’re not paying attention.” Since then, shoppers swear they see certain cans and boxes following them down aisles. One night, a delivery driver claimed he heard whispering cartons in the backroom. When security checked, everything was quiet. But from then on, everyone agreed that Harris Teeter had its own secret language—just for when no one was listening.